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Fallen Southern Nevada law enforcement officers remembered
The children of Metro Police Officer Trevor Nettleton, from left, Carson, Lorenzo, and Gage place a flower in his tribute and memory during the annual Southern Nevada Law Enforcement Memorial service at the Police Memorial Park in Las Vegas on Thursday. Officer Nettleton was killed on Nov. 19, 2009. Officers Danielle Faller, left, and Lori Kelleher assist the children during the ...
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NRC chairman maneuvers Yucca Mountain minefield
The Yucca Mountain project may be dead, or close to dead for the time being. But it still is a political minefield on Capitol Hill.Ask Allison Macfarlane, the chairman of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission who has been renominated to remain as chairman and who answered carefully when pressed about the Nevada nuclear waste site at a Senate hearingon Thursday.The Obama administration has terminated ...
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School Boards surprise superintendent hiring leads to open meeting law complaints
At least two open meeting law complaints have been filed against the Clark County School Board for interviewing and appointing Interim Superintendent Pat Skorkowsky to the position permanently late Tuesday night. The complaints allege the action was taken without proper notice being given on the agenda. The Nevada attorney general's office will investigate the potential violation and issue ...
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Memorial Day events abound throughout valley
Beginning Friday, when Veterans Village holds a ribbon-cutting for its thrift store, through Tuesday, when Rep. Dina Titus, D-Nev., holds a roundtable to discuss veterans issues, the list of Memorial Day weekend events overflows. At 10:30 a.m. Friday at 6029 W. Charleston Blvd., Veterans Village Las Vegas will hold the grand opening of its 33,000-square-foot thrift store featuring refurbished ...
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Gaming industry research in spotlight at Las Vegas conference
Bo Bernhard The largest gaming conference on the planet is coming back to Las Vegas. It's the 15th International Conference on Gambling & Risk Taking, and it's slated to start Monday at Caesars Palace. "This is the world's first and finest gambling studies conference," said conference host Bo Bernhard, who serves as UNLV's executive director of the ...
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Photos Old Vegas razzle-dazzle makes The Scintas a top act in Downtown Las Vegas
was posted April 25. For now, Janien is keeping her spot warm, and together this new version of The Scintas is a tight and tough gang of four intent on bringing back the sparkle of Old Vegas. They've pulled it off against the odds and have put Downtown back on the entertainment map. After all, it's where Frank, Dean and Sammy used to hang -- and The Scintas have conjured up all those ...
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Jose Canseco denies sexual assault allegation amid Las Vegas probe
Updated Thursday, May 23, 2013 | 6:15 p.m. FORT WORTH, Texas -- Former baseball slugger Jose Canseco is denying a woman's claim that he sexually assaulted her, calling the allegations "laughable."Canseco spoke to reporters Thursday before playing in an independent league game in Fort Worth. He said he was prepared to take a polygraph test and that "the truth will always come ...
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Michael Jacksons Hologram Rocks Las Vegas Arena
Michael Jackson: The hologram King of Pop. It only seems fitting that Michael Jackson, the man who brought the world "Thriller," was resurrected on a Las Vegas stage late Thursday night--in the form of a hologram. The moment occurred toward the end of the first public performance of Michael Jackson ONE, a joint venture between Cirque du Soleil and Jackson's estate. The ...
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Homeland Security Cuts Federal Funding on Terrorism for Las Vegas
LAS VEGAS -- Air Force pilot Scott Powell returned home three weeks early from a yearlong deployment to Afghanistan, surprising his children at school. Two hours after landing in Las Vegas, Maj. ...
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Judge declares mistrial in penalty phase after Jodi Arias jurors deadlock
PHOENIX -- Jurors have deadlocked on a verdict of life or death for Jodi Arias in the 2008 killing of her one-time boyfriend. The judge declared a mistrial in the penalty phase. Another panel will be seated and the sentencing process will begin anew in July. The jury found Arias guilty of first-degree murder May 8 and later determined the killing was cruel enough to merit consideration of the ...
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Red Rock Campground closes for summer
Red Rock Canyon Campground will be temporarily closed from May 28- August 30 as summer is the low-usage period for the park. Visitors are encouraged to take advantage of the many other camping opportunities in the area including: backcountry camping at Red Rock Canyon, Valley of Fire State Park, Lake Mead National Recreation Area, Death Valley National Park, Mojave National Preserve, U.S. Forest ...
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Nurse Concerns about Desai fell on deaf ears
Registered nurse Maggie Martin and her colleagues feared patients at Dr. Dipak Desai's Shadow Lane endoscopy clinic would be seriously harmed because of the speed in which they were processed through upper endoscopy and colonoscopy procedures. She raised her concerns with Desai, but they consistently fell on deaf ears, Martin, formerly known as Maggie Murphy, told jurors Thursday. "We ...
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Clark County gas tax hike gets bipartisan support in Assembly committee
CARSON CITY -- Republicans and Democrats gave support Thursday for a bill that could lead to gasoline tax increases in Clark County next year and many other counties after 2016. Assembly Speaker Marilyn Kirkpatrick, D-North Las Vegas, and Assemblyman Cresent Hardy, R-Mesquite, brought an amended version of Assembly Bill 413 to the Assembly Ways and Means Committee. The bill would allow the Clark ...
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Ohio kidnap case hero gets year of free McDonalds
FILE - This May 6, 2013 file photo shows neighbor Charles Ramsey speaking to media near the home where missing women Amanda Berry, Gina DeJesus and Michele Knight were rescued in Cleveland. Ramsey, the man who famously put down his Big Mac to help rescue three women held captive for a decade in an Ohio house will never have to pay for another burger in his hometown. Ramsey has been promised free ...
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Construction defects bill getting little support in Nevada Legislature
CARSON CITY -- Republicans on Thursday blasted an amended construction defects bill whose Democratic sponsor admitted will bring little help to the economically devastated construction industry. "You are correct, not everyone is happy," said Assembly Minority Leader Pat Hickey, R-Las Vegas, after listening to Democrat Richard "Skip" Daly of Sparks discuss Assembly Bill 367. ...
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Suspicious package prompts Nellis Air Force Base hospital evacuation
The Nellis Air Force Base hospital was evacuated for two hours Thursday after a suspicious package was discovered about 11 a.m. "Our Explosive Ordnance Disposal responded and discovered that it was just a box that was completely harmless." said Nellis spokesman Scott Knuteson, The EOD's bomb robot was dispatched to O'Callaghan Federal Hospital, only to discover that the box ...
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Experts release independent review of Rawson-Neal Psychiatric Hospital
In an independent review of Rawson-Neal Psychiatric Hospital in Las Vegas, two national experts found a number of ways in which the hospital can make improvements. Those areas include treatment services, treatment and discharge planning, increasing staff and improving documentation, according to the report released Thursday afternoon. It would cost money for the hospital to implement ...
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North Las Vegas company to test spacecraft capable of moon landing
Thursday23 May 20133:16 p.m. Las Vegans are used to seeing passenger planes, fighter jets and helicopters crisscrossing the congested skies. Next year, if you make the extra effort, you could also see a spacecraft. Aerospace entrepreneur Robert Bigelow unveiled plans Thursday for a craft known as The Guide. He gave few details but described it as a "flight-like testing unit" that ...
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Feds cut off funding for counter-terrorism efforts in Las Vegas
Congressman Steven Horsford (D-NV), right, takes a tour of the Southern Nevada Counter-Terrorism Center, also known as the Fusion Center, with Jim Owens, left, deputy chief of Metro’s homeland security division, and Capt. Al Salinas, center director, at Metro Police Headquarters Thursday, May 2, 2013. Officials at the center are concerned that budget cuts that might negatively affect its ...
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Las Vegas loses out on federal anti-terrorism funding
For the first time, the Las Vegas metropolitan area didn't make the cut in its efforts to receive anti-terrorism funding this year from the federal government, officials said Thursday. As a result, local agencies will not get funding to support antiterrorism programs and preparedness -- money that provided $1.8 million this year. The money has funded efforts that include the anti-terrorism ...
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Las Vegas gas prices likely headed up if Nevada passes fuel-tax bill
Thursday, May 23, 2013 | 2:37 p.m. Gas prices could increase statewide under a bill that received strong support today from lawmakers and business groups. The gas tax increases would begin later this year in Clark County, if the Clark County Commission approves tethering various gas taxes to a certain measure of the inflation rate. So as the price of goods balloons, so, too, does the gas tax. ...
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Mining tax measure placed on 2014 statewide ballot
CARSON CITY -- With Assembly approval on Thursday, Nevada voters next year will be asked if the mining industry's constitutional limit on the taxes they pay for extracting gold and other precious metals should be repealed. The vote on Senate Joint Resolution 15 was 26-15, the final step needed to put it on the 2014 general election ballot. It was a party-line vote with all Republicans ...
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Reid introduces bill to create Gold Butte national conservation area
WASHINGTON -- An effort was launched in Congress on Thursday to designate 350,000 acres of government-protected conservation land and wilderness northeast of Las Vegas. Sen. Harry Reid, D-Nev., proposed to create a National Conservation Area at Gold Butte, a region of rugged mountains, sandstone ridges, native American petroglyphs and abandoned mine sites in Clark County between the Overton arm ...
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Nearly all U.S. states see hefty drop in teen births Nevada rate falls 30 percent
NEW YORK -- The nation's record-low teen birth rate stems from robust declines in nearly every state, but most dramatically in several Mountain States and among Hispanics, according to a new government report. All states but West Virginia and North Dakota showed significant drops over five years. But the Mountain States of Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, Nevada and Utah saw rates fall by 30 ...
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Nevada Legislature advances gay marriage resolution
CARSON CITY -- A constitutional amendment that would let voters decide whether to legalize gay marriage passed the final hurdle of the 2013 legislative session Thursday but still has a long way to go. Senate Joint Resolution 13 passed the Assembly on a 27-14 vote, bringing the process to get it to the ballot in 2016 to an end for this year. All the no votes were Republicans. It must pass again ...
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Healthcare building has contraversial design in Las Vegas
Among architectural enthusiasts and professionals it is one of the most controversial creations Las Vegas has seen in years, and most surprisingly it is not a flashy casino built to resemble a cruise ship or the Sydney Opera Houses, but a health clinic that specializes in treatment for brain ailments.
Opened to the public in 2009, the Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health, which is a Las Vegas branch of the Cleveland Clinic, was designed by Frank Gehry of Santa Monica-based Gehry Partners and resembles a half-finished assortment of steel facades and outlandish patterns, presenting the viewer with an intense sense of irony. Read more
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