Some job applicants say they need to be paid more than $270,000 a year to head the Clark County School District, the fifth largest in the nation.
CARSON CITY — Legislators expressed concern Friday that state agencies are not doing enough to collect back taxes owed by individuals and businesses.
A flat tire might have been the cause of a fatal car crash in which a man and woman died and three children were seriously injured near the Nevada-California state line Friday afternoon, the Nevada Highway Patrol said.
Some hotel and wedding chapel signs that are a regular part of the landscape actually run afoul of Las Vegas ordinances banning such things as posting the price of a room or a wedding service. Since the rules would most likely be found unconstitutional if the city tried to enforce them, they’re scheduled to be repealed.
RENO — Rescuers searched for a second day Friday for two miners missing and feared dead in a Nevada gold mine where a pipe had broken loose from a wall and severely damaged a cage that was lowering the two men into a shaft.
SPOKANE, Wash. — Alex Estrella’s game-winning hit had barely landed on the outfield grass before his father leaped atop the Sierra Vista dugout and announced to the world, “That’s my boy!”
Dealers fighting a 4-year-old controversial tip pooling program instituted at Wynn Resorts Ltd. have asked a Clark County District Court judge to throw out a ruling by Nevada’s labor commissioner that the policy didn’t violate state law.
Sen. John Ensign is asking supporters for donations to pay lawyers defending him in ongoing ethics investigations, insisting he is “absolutely” innocent of allegations stemming from an extramarital affair and efforts to help the woman’s husband find new work.
ANCHORAGE, Alaska — A guide says Ted Stevens’ last day of fishing was a very good day – the former U.S. senator was in great spirits as he casted for silver salmon at an Alaska camp and raved about the spinning lures he was using. “He was happy to be there,” guide Byron Orth said. “The fishing was so good, he was planning to come back the next day.” But the 86-year-old Republican and four others died the next day when their floatplane crashed en route from a lodge to the Nushagak River camp.
LOS ANGELES — Lauren Froderman had all the right moves on “So You Think You Can Dance.” Viewer votes awarded the 18-year-old recent high school graduate from Phoenix the title of “America’s Favorite Dancer” and the $250,000 grand prize.
LOS ANGELES — Talk radio host Dr. Laura Schlessinger has issued an apology for saying the N-word several times in an on-air conversation with a caller that she said was “hypersensitive” to racism. Schlessinger said on her website that she was wrong in using the word for what she called an attempt to make a philosophical point.