CARSON CITY — The Assembly Judiciary Committee voted Thursday to advance a stripped-down version of a bill that would have allowed authorities to conduct secret searches on electronic communications and seize funds on prepaid debit cards without a warrant.
The Clark County School District has identified two more schools in the Las Vegas Valley as having students with the swine flu, bringing the total number of schools to seven.
Jim Marsh was laughing Thursday morning as he discussed the announcement that Chrysler LLC intended to cancel his Chrysler Jeep dealership’s franchise.
A 49-year-old grocery checker won a $2.8 million judgment against Carmine’s Little Italy after she sued the Las Vegas restaurant where she slipped and injured her back.
Suspended Las Vegas lawyer Jeanne Winkler is in trouble again with the State Bar of Nevada.
CARSON CITY — A decision on whether to set up procedures for authorizing toll roads in Nevada won’t come until just before a deadline today when the bill must pass, or it automatically dies for the remainder of the 2009 Legislature.
The higher education system’s Board of Regents could have raised tuition Thursday, but it did not.
Summer, as it is traditionally defined, begins on the summer solstice, the date on which the sun reaches its northernmost point in the sky during our Earth’s annual journey around the sun.
“Sin City,” a Flying Burrito Brothers song picked as No. 9 in Thursday’s list of Top 10 Las Vegas-themed tunes, was written about Los Angeles. The list appeared on 1E in Neon Thursday.
Celine Dion’s husband, Rene Angelil, has undergone a heart-related medical procedure, Dion’s publicist confirmed Thursday.
Formally dressed students playing trumpets, violins and guitars brought mariachi music to the air-conditioned lobby of the Greer Education Center during a break in the Clark County School Board meeting Thursday.
Recession or no, Las Vegas remains the hot place for cool people to chill.
RENO — An environmental group says it plans to sue two federal agencies, claiming a public lands management plan adopted last year for more than 17,000 square miles in Nevada amounts to “ecological disaster” for nearly a dozen protected species.
A 28-year-old valley man with a violent past was arrested Thursday in the slaying of a waiter whose badly beaten body was found Monday morning near the Caesars Palace loading docks.
Former Nye County commissioner Henry Neth was arrested Thursday at his Pahrump home on embezzlement and securities fraud charges in connection with a land sale scheme.
CARSON CITY — After months of discussion of everything but, the Legislature finally started talking taxes Thursday.
CARSON CITY — Three-quarters of the way through the 2009 Nevada Legislature, lobbyists have spent $124,858 on food and drinks at dinners, receptions and other events held to promote their clients’ interests.
The head of criminalistics for the Henderson Police Department has been put on paid administrative leave pending the investigation of a personnel issue, according to the city.
The Nevada Freedom of Information Coalition announced Thursday that it is asking all members of the Legislature to sign a “transparency pledge” demonstrating their commitment to open government.
There was a time when he and his bandmates used to scrounge around on the floors of their cars after practice, hoping to find enough change to score some 33-cent burritos from Del Taco for dinner.
Back in 1980, a comic mystery called “Shear Madness” was so far ahead of the interactive curve that its local producer now hesitates to even use the i-word.
On the surface, boxer Mike Tyson and mobster Bugsy Siegel would seem to have little in common.
Dixie’s Dam Bar at Hooters Hotel, 115 E. Tropicana Ave., has introduced keg service — sort of like bottle service, but with beer. Four beers (Budweiser, Widmer Hefeweizen, AmberBock and Michelob Ultra) are available in quarter-kegs for $200 each. The kegs fit into each of seven custom tables and provide about 60 12-ounce beers — and the service includes a beer-tender. …
Self-awareness: Every famous person needs it. The lack of it has destroyed Madonna’s appeal to the craven sarcasts of Generation Y. The overabundance of it helped kill Generation X’s prime icon Kurt Cobain, literally not figuratively, by heaping expectations onto his suicidal soul.
All this month, the Silverton is giving away scratch cards to players earning 500 Discovery Club points ($500 coin-in) on slots or $1,000 coin-in on video poker. There is no limit to the number of cards you can earn, and every card has a prize, including points, free play, food and mystery gifts. Each scratch card also has a letter, and players able to collect the cards to spell out “That’s Livin’ Lodge” will win $10,000. The casino is also is having a 7 p.m. drawing on Saturdays with 10 must-be-present winners and a top prize of $10,000.
Punky rockers Green Day play the Mandalay Bay Events Center on Aug. 21, with Franz Ferdinand.
Quite a character, our Luddie B. Maestro got a tad mad once and hurled a plate of food at a waiter’s head. Apparently, Mr. Beethoven was underwhelmed by the level of service. (It might have been at a T.G.I. Friday’s, though the historical record is unclear.)
