IN BRIEF

ABANDONED COPPER MINE

City officials finalize ballot

Las Vegas officials plan today to sign off on a final version of the municipal ballot that does not include two measures that were the subject of a rancorous fight between the city and the Culinary union.

LV police seek victims of financial elder scam

Las Vegas police are searching for additional victims of two suspects accused of bilking at least 11 elderly people out of tens of thousands of dollars.

Elton John wraps at Caesars Palace

Elton John closed out his five-year, 241-show engagement at Caesars Palace on Wednesday with “Your Song” and hints that he might be returning to Las Vegas.

Legislators take a sip of fluoridation

CARSON CITY — Critics of a plan to fluoridate Reno-area water got so worked up Wednesday that state Senate Majority Leader Steven Horsford had to bang his gavel to wrap up public comment on the measure.

Growing number go ‘green’

CARSON CITY — Senate Majority Leader Steven Horsford found nothing but support on Earth Day for his bill to use federal stimulus money to create “green jobs” for the anticipated renewable energy economy in Nevada.

A Journey into the Past

Walking into the Titanic: The Artifact Exhibition at Luxor, 3900 Las Vegas Blvd. South, is supposed to give you the feeling that you’re not only viewing items from the famous ship, you’re actually boarding the Titanic.

TAKE A SEAT

It looks like a casino race book in midafternoon. But rather than a constantly shifting mass of railbirds peering at TV screens to see how their horses are faring, this crowd is made up of theater buffs peering at video monitors to see how much of a discount they can score on tickets for tonight’s shows.

Odds stacked against music fans

So, U2 tickets went on sale last week, and if you’ve noticed a sudden increase in the number of folks hobbling around the valley, it’s because so many of them gave an arm and leg to get some.

Missing Links

Need to shorten a URL, but don’t like the mishmash of numbers and letters some sites give you? Check out www.socuteurl.com. Enter a Web site address you’d like shortened, and this site will give it an adorable name involving words such as peppydog and mashygooboo.

Artists to exhibit creations at festival

The 11th annual Spring Art Walk will take place Saturday and Sunday at Trails Village Center, 1970 Village Center Circle. The event is open to the public with free admission and parking from 10 a.m. until 5 p.m. both days.

Local artists dressing up downtown bus stops

The Contemporary Arts Collective is taking mass transit to the art museum — quite literally. Its “Stop and Glow” exhibition, running today through May 23, showcases artwork destined for downtown bus stops this fall.

QUICK TAKES

Thumbs up

Freedom to Write

Best-selling author David Guterson rarely sets a story in a locale outside of the Pacific Northwest, where he was born and raised and still lives.

From the ‘Street’ to the Strip

The “Street” fleet’s in — as in “Sesame Street Live,” back for another romp of classic characters in their yearly leap from screen to stage, this time called “Elmo’s Green Thumb.” But this year, the town’s abuzz with rumors that some citizens of the “Street” have been spotted in and around the Strip, trying out for Vegas shows.

Here & Now

SMOOTH SKIN

Batters Up

Longer, thicker, darker. Until recently those words had become as believable to women as “bigger, firmer, fuller.” With the December FDA-approval of cosmetic prescriptions for Latisse, however — a treatment originally used for glaucoma until patients discovered it caused eyelash growth — the claim is now reality.

Style Scoop

Style Scoop

FASHION AND BEAUTY GET THE ‘GREEN’ LIGHT

If you refuse both paper and plastic and recycle religiously then surely your clothes and beauty products boast the same green conscience. Then again, maybe not.

‘Out of control’ salaries?

Some academics have always bristled at the money and attention lavished on college sports. But watching major universities pour tens of millions of dollars into coaching salaries while cutting core education has been too much for University of Nevada, Reno President Milton Glick to bear.

Popularity contest

Nevada Democrats spent much of last year crowing about their influence in the national presidential sweepstakes.

Labor Secretary Hilda Solis to visit Las Vegas, tour work sites

WASHINGTON — Labor Secretary Hilda Solis is scheduled to make her first trip to Las Vegas as a Cabinet member today where she will address a labor gathering and visit two or three work sites, officials said.

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