WASHINGTON — Steven Chu, the federal laboratory director selected this week to lead the Department of Energy, signed on to a nuclear energy report whose recommendations included licensing for a nuclear waste repository at Yucca Mountain.
The Las Vegas medical clinics linked to a hepatitis C outbreak must turn over financial records to a group of lawyers representing patients infected with the disease, a judge ordered Tuesday.
Former District Attorney Rex Bell wanted to clarify the circumstances when he allowed Las Vegas police to place a bug in his office when Nevada Supreme Court Justice Bob Rose met with him to discuss a case in 1993. “I never thought Bob Rose would make any improper suggestions, and he did not,” Bell said Tuesday, commenting on Jane Ann Morrison’s Dec. 11 column on electronic surveillance. Rose was a Supreme Court justice at the time, not a district judge as stated in the column.
A state mental health administrator said Tuesday that authorities are developing a plan to segregate the violent from the passive patients at Rawson Neal Psychiatric Hospital, where two rapes involving patients are alleged to have occurred in November.
Monday, Nevada Attorney General Catherine Cortez Masto signed an unprecedented agreement with two northern Mexican states — Chihuahua and Baja California — vowing to share intelligence and assist leaders there in reforming their archaic judicial system, which has proved largely ineffective in dealing with powerful drug cartels that have become almost separate, parallel governments.
The financial sector’s freefall has put millions of retirements in jeopardy and delayed millions more. The country’s savers are scrambling to maintain what assets they have left, knowing further market losses will mean a commensurate sacrifice in their standard of living.
Ah, fresh mozzarella; there’s nothing like its delicate texture and nutty flavor. And this week readers tell Bob Daniels where to find it.
Great, traditional steakhouses are a Las Vegas birthright. But valley meat-lovers lately have begun to appreciate some new twists on the classic martini/shrimp cocktail/T-bone/baked potato paradigm.
Big Al’s Oyster Bar, bar area, The Orleans, 4500 W. Tropicana Ave., received 20 demerits Dec. 4. Violations included chemicals not stored properly. GRADE: B
Construction has been suspended on the ManhattanWest mixed-use condo development in southwestern Las Vegas, the developer said Tuesday.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid on Tuesday said he intends to push legislation that would allow renewable energy developers to receive eight years of tax credits in one year.
Fontainebleau Las Vegas’ preview center opened last week with little fanfare but lots of questions about when, or if, its 1,018 condominium units will go on sale.
