By BRIAN ECKHOUSE, Las Vegas Sun

LAS VEGAS -- A gallon of gasoline isn't quite a gallon of gas in the summer, and that has motorists in a nationwide court battle to get more for their money.

LAS VEGAS -- The gambler in the fraying pink jacket has no emotion left. It has spilled from her, heavy black makeup smeared into the deep-set lines of her 40-something face.

LAS VEGAS -- Community reaction to the revelation that a group of Las Vegas health clinics reused syringes and single-use vials has been one of universal revulsion.

Owners knowingly put more than 40,000 patients at risk of hepatitis and HIV infection in a quest to run as many patients as possible through the Endoscopy Center of Southern Nevada and other clinics.