WASHINGTON — Veteran Pennsylvania Sen. Arlen Specter said Tuesday he will become a Democrat, a sudden shift that presents Sen. Harry Reid of Nevada with an opportunity to consolidate his power as majority leader with more muscle than ever to get bills passed for President Barack Obama.
The sleek glass exterior of the Mandarin Hotel at CityCenter was never inspected while it was being installed, according to violation notices sent by Clark County inspectors to Perini Building Co. and Converse Consultants.
CARSON CITY — An Assembly panel was asked Tuesday to back a bill that would streamline the process for restoring civil rights to criminal offenders after they have paid their debts to society.
Deyanira Del Rio knows that her supervisors at the Las Vegas air-conditioning firm where she works are taking the swine flu outbreak seriously.
“I was sent home Monday because I had a fever, a cough and a sore throat,” she said after her appointment Tuesday at a University Medical Center Quick Care in Spring Valley. “They didn’t want me possibly spreading swine flu to our technicians or customers.”
A 12-year-old boy was shot in the face but survived the apparent gang-related shooting Tuesday afternoon at his home near Lake Mead and Jones boulevards.
CARSON CITY — A legislative budget panel voted as expected Tuesday to reject Gov. Jim Gibbons’ recommendation and keep the old Nevada State Prison, which dates to the 1870s, open for the next two years.
The trial of a day care worker charged in the 1997 death of a young girl was postponed Tuesday in District Court.
After a civil trial in February, a District Court jury found chiropractor Stephen Shaw liable for the shoving death of retired record company executive Lawrence Weiss.
The word “not” was missing in Jane Ann Morrison’s Saturday column. The sentence should have read: “Many resorts simply lease space to nightclubs and do not manage them.”
American universities are supposed to be bastions of open discourse and free thought. Instead, they’ve too often become safe havens for the easily offended, places where well-paid, ivory-tower academics plot to indoctrinate and punish anyone who challenges their sensibilities through acts of free expression.
In a decision that can be described only as pure !@#*&$%!, the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday narrowly upheld the Federal Communications Commission’s power to impose regulations intended to discourage the use of curse words on television.
Thanks to a high-power Canadian radio station, a Michigan restaurant chain’s jingle blew all over the Midwest during the ’60s and ’70s with many memorable lines, but one in particular: “I just go to Elias Brothers for the halibut.” That came to mind when I received K.J. Howe’s request for halibut fish and chips — which, readers say, can be found in Las Vegas.
Think of Raku’s offerings as a sort of Japanese twist on Spanish tapas.
When Michael Jordan was a student at the Culinary Institute of America in Hyde Park, N.Y., he spent a couple of weeks learning about the pairing of food and wine. Beer, on the other hand, was “spoken about, but I wouldn’t say it was focused on.” During the next 10 years — including seven with celebrity chef Emeril Lagasse, in both New Orleans and Las Vegas — wine pairings were a standard part of business as usual.
Bajio Mexican Grill, 4235 S. Fort Apache Road, received 13 demerits April 13. Violations included chemicals not stored properly. GRADE: B
A day after announcing that Harrah’s Entertainment had been able to trim its first-quarter losses, one of the co-founders of the private equity firms that owns the gaming company said he doesn’t expect the economy to bottom out until 2010 or 2011 with slow growth after that.
With 28 days to go before the start of the 40th World Series of Poker, officials said Tuesday they are confident the economic downturn that has zapped the gaming industry will not hurt the overall experience of the 57-event tournament.
One of the banks being sued by Fontainebleau Las Vegas broke its silence Tuesday to say it’s negotiating with the developer to help finance the unfinished $3.1 billion project.
Nine years after selling Mirage Resorts to MGM Grand Corp., Steve Wynn may be looking to buy back some of the Strip properties he originally designed and built.
Las Vegas home prices have lost more than half of their value since the peak in 2006, but there are more signs the housing crisis could be reaching the bottom.
A five-year legal saga took another small step Tuesday toward its conclusion.