Jimmie Johnson celebrates in the winner's circle Sunday after passing Matt Kenseth on the last lap of the NASCAR Nextel Cup UAW-DaimlerChrysler 400 at Las Vegas Motor Speedway.
Photo by John Locher.
More Than Passing Interest For those who deride NASCAR as a traffic jam turning left for 400 miles, converts such as Las Vegas' Dea McDonald have a message: Go to a race.
MISSED DEADLINE: Time's up for voter database A county official says Secretary of State Dean Heller, who is running for Congress, botched the awarding of a multimillion-dollar contract to create a statewide voter database, leading Nevada to miss a federal deadline and potentially waste taxpayer money.
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More Than Passing Interest For those who deride NASCAR as a traffic jam turning left for 400 miles, converts such as Las Vegas' Dea McDonald have a message: Go to a race.
Grand jury testimony of deadly shooting conflicts The brother of a Las Vegas Realtor charged with fatally shooting a teenager in January told a grand jury that minutes before the shooting, one of the victim's acquaintances threatened to use a shotgun on them.
'MAFIA COPS': Ex-detectives' trial opens today NEW YORK -- It's a crime story that begs for a best-seller: A pair of oft-decorated NYPD detectives are accused of leading double lives, joining the mob's payroll. They allegedly go on a crime spree, leave a trail of dead bodies and retire to a life as Las Vegas high rollers.
PROTECTING FORESTS: UNR professor targets destructive beetle CARSON CITY -- It may be small but the mountain pine beetle has caused billions of dollars in damage to forests in North America, including in an outbreak in the Lake Tahoe Basin more than a decade ago that killed thousands of lodgepole pines.
MISSED DEADLINE: Time's up for voter database A county official says Secretary of State Dean Heller, who is running for Congress, botched the awarding of a multimillion-dollar contract to create a statewide voter database, leading Nevada to miss a federal deadline and potentially waste taxpayer money.
