Long-shot Senate hopeful drops out

Rural Nevada physician Robin Titus says she is dropping her campaign to challenge U.S. Sen. Harry Reid, D-Nev., but says reports she will support fellow Republican Sue Lowden are false.

Development rules reviewed

Brett Sperry, understandably, has plenty of nice things to say about the city of Las Vegas. His recently completed Brett Wesley Contemporary Gallery in the Arts District had the support of Mayor Oscar Goodman and Mayor Pro Tem Gary Reese and even garnered a Mayor’s Urban Design Award earlier this month. He is looking to build another building in the same neighborhood.

Germ-avoider Trump tells of scolding double-dipper

A waiter presented us with fruit plates at our hidden table in the Four Seasons’ Verandah. I looked over at Donald Trump, and he told me about the nasty thing he witnessed the night before.

Plan privatizes launches

Getting to space is about to be outsourced, and two Nevada companies are among those being mentioned as possible players in the effort.

State employees facing layoffs might retire, hurt PERS assets

CARSON CITY — Massive layoffs of state employees could induce many long-term workers to retire and potentially hurt the assets of the Public Employees Retirement System, its top official said Friday.

Proposal would eliminate funding for Yucca Mountain

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama will propose eliminating funding for the Yucca Mountain Project in a new budget he will submit to Congress today , said Nevada lawmakers who were notified over the weekend.

‘Showgirl’ given celebrity send-off

Bette Midler got a celebrity-assisted send-off at Caesars Palace on Sunday, a rousing finale to her two-year run of “The Showgirl Must Go On.”

Lawyer takes fines, reprimands, criticisms in stride

In law, victory is a matter of interpretation. Personal injury attorney Glen Lerner agreed Wednesday to a public reprimand and a $5,000 fine from the State Bar of Nevada. Yet when I bumped into Lerner and his attorney, Dominic Gentile, at the Reno airport, Gentile happily declared, “We won.”

Lake Tahoe temperatures rising

SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. — A recent NASA study showed Lake Tahoe’s water is warming twice as quickly as regional air temperature, lending weight to predictions of warming lake temperatures made by UC Davis researchers in 2008.

House arrest

Samantha Burton, a 26-year-old unmarried Florida mother of two, was 25 weeks pregnant last March when she displayed signs of premature labor. At the urging of her obstetrician, she sought care at Tallahassee Memorial Hospital.

GOP, Democrats? They’re all just a bunch of bums

With the stimulus boondoggle, the health care fiasco, failed bailouts, Haiti, underwear bombers, people sneaking into White House events and the other nonsense the two parties force citizens to endure, how can anyone have confidence in anything associated with Washington?

For new coaches, recruiting equals damage control

For Brian Kelly, Lane Kiffin and Derek Dooley, the first priority at their new jobs was just keeping it together.

What?

Old hotel to be razed at new Vegas city hall site

LAS VEGAS – The project developer says demolition is set to begin on an old hotel on a block that will become home to a new Las Vegas city hall.

Chinese-USA photo exhibit opening in Las Vegas

LAS VEGAS – Officials say a public photo exhibit exploring 30 years of diplomatic relations between the United States and China is planned to open at the mall at CityCenter on the Las Vegas Strip.

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