Paul Bartolotta, executive chef of Bartolotta Ristorante di Mare at Wynn Las Vegas, was named Best Chef: Southwest at the James Beard Foundation Awards in New York on Monday night.
This story is not about a feud. It’s just to show you how the big boys play in Las Vegas.
MEXICO CITY — Mexico announced a return to “normalcy” on Monday, preparing to reopen businesses and schools even as the swine flu virus sickened more than 1,400 people in 20 countries.
No good deed ever goes unpunished as staff at eight public schools in Clark County know too well.
The man accused of shooting and killing an acquaintance over a pit bull puppy testified Monday in District Court that he killed the victim in self-defense.
CARSON CITY — Gov. Jim Gibbons made a lot of fourth-graders happy Monday when he signed into law a bill making the vivid dancer damselfly Nevada’s official state insect.
Nevada health officials on Monday were awaiting test results on nine probable swine flu cases sent to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The suspect accused of fatally stabbing one man and injuring two others during an argument at a southwest valley Denny’s on Sunday morning is claiming self-defense, according to a Las Vegas police report.
CARSON CITY — A Las Vegas lawyer argued Monday that his clients were innocent bystanders who should be allowed to sue Harrah’s Laughlin because the casino had a duty to protect them during a motorcycle rally that erupted into a melee between the Hells Angels and Mongols gangs.
A voter registration drive last year illegally required canvassers to meet quotas to keep their jobs and resulted in thousands of “garbage” registrations gumming up Clark County voter rolls, officials said Monday as they released a criminal complaint against the drive’s organizers.
Local government attempts to quash free speech in public forums are a lot like Middle East violence and Nevada budget battles — no matter how many times the issue is supposedly resolved, it keeps finding its way onto the front pages of the newspaper.
Utilities commission staffers on Monday quizzed William Rogers, NV Energy’s chief financial officer, about the financing of the Harry Allen power plant, which is scheduled for completion in 2011.
No one was surprised that MGM Mirage reported a decline in net earnings during the first quarter.
Community Bancorp of Las Vegas on Monday said that its Nevada bank amended a regulatory report to increase a provision for loan losses by $17.4 million at the end of last year, resulting in a $151.9 million loss for 2008. The bank earned $25.7 million in 2007.
Homebuilder and developer James Rhodes, whose companies filed for bankruptcy protection in March with $400 million in liabilities, will face another legal challenge, according to a public relations official with the Nevada Cancer Institute.
