Spellcheck continues to disappoint:

Vail Daily NewsPete FowlerDecember 28, 2008
GLENWOOD SPRINGS, Colorado — A man suspected of robbing the Alpine Bank in West Glenwood Springs and taking the cash to Las Vegas has a history of gambling addiction and stealing to support it.
Police arrested Jeffrey David Smith, 27, Monday afternoon at a hotel in Las Vegas on suspicion of [...]

Telegraph.co.ukBy Graeme CullifordLast Updated: 2:59PM GMT 28 Dec 2008
…Many who once viewed Sin City as an invincible boomtown, which would party on through any storm, are quickly revising those opinions.
Indeed one of the saddest aspects of the current downturn can be seen in the Vegas strip clubs and lap-dancing bars, which according to reports have [...]

I was sitting among strangers in this big brownstone house, playing two hands—perfect Basic Strategy—and trying to go plus-one, minus-one in my head the way I’d been taught. There’s nothing too unusual about that, I guess. Millions of people take blackjack tests every day, or some kind of test. But I was less talented, at [...]

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We should meddle soberly when judging divine ordinances
The true field and subject of imposture are things unknown. Because in the first place strangeness itself lends credit; and then, not being subject to our ordinary reasoning, such things take away our means of combating them. For this reason, says Plato, it is much easier to give [...]

I managed a hairy U into the shoulder area which had the wall and plaque, and pulled up to the plaque. It was old. It was shaped like a shield. It suggested real weight, real metal. At its top were two stars and between them stalked the California grizzly, his snout angled down in a [...]

By JORDAN ROBERTSONThe Associated PressDecember 23, 2008
SAN FRANCISCO — A Ferrari-driving vice president of Fry’s Electronics who was allegedly such a heavyweight gambler that casinos chartered private planes to fly him to Las Vegas has been arrested on charges he embezzled more than $65 million from the retailer to fuel his lavish lifestyle and pay [...]

Jon and I were driving down. It was nine in the morning, early for us. We stopped for bagels first. I remember he said, “Stay here. Tell me what you want.”
“Onion bagel,” I wanted, “scallion cream cheese. Toasted. With tomato, or whatever.”
“Tomato?”
Tomato I could take or leave. I shrugged. Jon shrugged back. [...]

Nearing downtown, we left the freeway. All at once we’re in a suburb. It was the Vegas that Vegas forgot. There were Citgo stations, a Ralph’s supermarket. Large housing tracts were defended, as it were, by cinder-block fortifications suggestive of Belfast or Gaza.
No one had revealed our destination. I had a small theory, but [...]

The car was a small cheap car. The road was big and long and probably hadn’t cost too much itself. It was in the form of a line. The earth was grey, like an eraser. There were dots of green and white. Ever since Vegas, north about two and a half hours ago, I’d noticed [...]

One morning I got on an airplane. It was the trip that I’d been waiting for forever. I brought cards on the flight and I brought a copy of Ray Kroc’s autobiography. Plus the Wall Street Journal and some gum.
I was going to meet people of whom I knew little, to join an escapade [...]