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Vegas rated nation's 'meanest city' for homeless ASSOCIATED PRESS LAS VEGAS (AP) - It's been called sinful and decadent. Now the city of Las Vegas has been dubbed the meanest in America for homeless people. A report issued Tuesday by the Washington-based National Coalition for the Homeless ranked the city at the top of its list of "Meanest Cities" based largely on "dozens of downtown `sweeps' in which jaywalking, pedestrian obstruction, and other quality-of-life ordinances were used as an excuse to stop people and 'clean up' the area." But city officials discounted the report, saying it includes factual errors and...