CARSON CITY — Nevada lawmakers advanced a bill Thursday that might make it tougher for convicted sexual offenders to be released from lifetime supervision but would reduce the amount of time offenders have to wait for a hearing on their release.
The budget will be leaner, but the parks will be cleaner, at least when it comes to litter along roads and on public lands in Southern Nevada. That’s one of the aspects of the governor’s proposal for funding Nevada’s Department of Conservation and Natural Resources for the next two years. A joint Senate-Assembly budget subcommittee is scheduled to review the department’s funding issues today.
CARSON CITY — In testimony Thursday to Nevada lawmakers, state officials listed tough choices they face as a result of Gov. Jim Gibbons’ proposed cuts to mental health services.
A married couple who police say dedicated the past five years to duping valley senior citizens and Asian women out of more than $150,000 have been arrested in what’s known as a “pigeon drop” scam.
ELKO — The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to consider whether a Carlin man convicted in 1994 for sexually assaulting a 9-year-old girl should be granted a new trial because of questions involving DNA evidence and how it was presented.
One person was killed after he lost control of his car and crashed into a home near the intersection of Sandhill Road and Wyoming Avenue early Thursday.
• Nevada lawmakers rather than the state Ethics Commission would handle any complaints against an Assembly or Senate member alleging an improper vote, under terms of a bill approved Thursday by the Senate Judiciary Committee.
An attorney representing Chester Stiles in his sexual assault trial asked that a juror be removed after a woman thought to be the juror’s daughter posted negative comments about the trial on a Florida-based Web site.
CARSON CITY — Complaints that charged Attorney General Catherine Cortez Masto and state Sen. Mike Schneider with using their influence to restore the license of a homeopathic doctor were tossed out Thursday by the Nevada Ethics Commission.
If you were holding off on seeing Danny Gans until he moved across the street to Encore, good call.
They receive none of the glory, but often perform most of the work — contorting their bodies to appear sawed in half or vanished into thin air, flipping secret levers at just the right moment.
Guitar legend Eric Clapton teams up with Steve Winwood to air Blind Faith tunes and more at the MGM Grand Garden arena on June 27. Tickets are $55, $89.75 and $175 and go on sale at 10 a.m. Saturday at the MGM Grand box office, 3799 Las Vegas Blvd. South, and Ticketmaster outlets.
This weekend and next all four Coast Casinos (Sam’s Town, Orleans, Suncoast and Gold Coast) are each giving away $100,000. The drawings (winners must be present) will take place at 8:15 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays, and each features a $10,000 top prize. Please check out the rules regarding how to earn entries.
Heidi’s Picks is a weekly selection of restaurant suggestions from Review-Journal critic Heidi Knapp Rinella.
The culinary traditions of Spain will be celebrated during the World Vibration Concert Series/World Cuisine event at noon March 8 at the Winchester Cultural Center, 3130 S. McLeod Drive. The cooking demonstration begins at noon, with flamenco music following at 2 p.m. The fee for the demonstration is $14; a combination ticket for both is $25. For tickets and more information, call 455-7340 or stop at the center. …
When guitarists were known as wizards and axmen (1988), a collective of traveling musicians roamed the land calling themselves the Monsters of Rock Tour — but the marks of these beasts were more dangerously known by their phylum shreddings: Metallica, Van Halen, Scorpions and Dokken.
When VooDoo Lounge opened atop the Rio about 12 years ago, it was the first area nightclub to offer Las Vegans the killer combination of a great off-Strip view and sophisticated clubbing.
I still remember the first tamale I ate as a child, back before authentic Mexican food reached the little corner of the white-bread world where I grew up.
If you don’t buy a concert ticket, you can always be hungry at a strategic hour.
Getting an independent movie made — and getting it into theaters — is always a crapshoot.
The discussion about cutting Broadway shows to 90 minutes for the Strip and the behavior of those shows’ audiences continue to be emotional topics.
Audience advisory: No intermissions. If there were, though, they’d arrive at 4 1/2-minute intervals and last a minute. Ten times.
Remember when tour buses were sex on wheels, a rolling series of "Almost Famous" moments, synonymous with good times and bad judgment, free love followed by trips to the free clinic?
When M Resort lights up a dark corner of the southwest valley on Sunday, it will be with nine restaurants and a decided emphasis on value, and not just because of the current state of the economy.
Poetry, Chicago-style. Comedy, New York-style. Cultural observations, Las Vegas-style.
They say that to be a big-government liberal you have to be able to believe two mutually exclusive things at the same time.