Dallas-based Southwest Airlines was affected by a telecommunications outage late Tuesday that delayed some flights nationwide.
The Las Vegas Mob Experience at the Tropicana held a soft opening “preview” Tuesday. Participants were given “name tags” that boast radio frequency identification technology. Just for fun, they then could have whacked one another. Or they could have gotten “made.”
A bill that would boost the minimum vehicle insurance level sparked legislators’ fears Tuesday that the higher premiums would harm poor people and force more drivers to go uninsured. The bill was proposed by Assemblyman William Horne, who was injured in an accident in which the other driver had only the minimum liability insurance required by law.
A Public Employee Retirement System official explained to Clark County commissioners Tuesday what they can do under the law to reverse any fraudulent boosting of pensions by firefighters who may have abused sick leave. County officials suspect that some firefighters timed fake sick calls to bump up co-workers’ callback pay.
Allegiant Travel told its entire ground crew at McCarran International Airport that their functions would be turned over to an independent contractor on May 3.
After cutting his department’s budget more than $36 million in the current fiscal year, Clark County Sheriff Doug Gillespie is proposing a slight increase for the next budget year. The proposed budget of $518 million is a 1.14 percent increase and includes elimination of 18 civilian positions on top of 69 police and 139 civilian positions cut in the current budget.
Is any topic more confusing than power rates? Just look at NV Energy’s rate filing, submitted Tuesday with the Public Utilities Commission of Nevada and full of talk about DEAAs and EEPRs and EEIRs and BTERs and TREDs. But all of those acronyms taken together mean your power bill could drop by an average of 2.7 percent after the fall.
The man accused of causing the death of UNLV student Lindsay Bennett in an April 2008 drunken driving crash was convicted Tuesday.
A government-affairs executive has left the Las Vegas Chamber of Commerce to open a business, leaving the trade group without two important executives during the state’s legislative session.
Bank of George on Tuesday reported that regulators ordered it to boost its capital, but bank officials said they are nearly in complete compliance with the order. Bank of George officials on Feb. 1 became the eighth Southern Nevada community bank to sign a regulatory consent order over the last year as the institutions struggle to cope with the recession.
Boyd Gaming Corp. management’s upbeat outlook for the coming year did little to make believers on Wall Street.
The head of Clark County’s largest public employee union on Tuesday spoke against department heads drafting plans for 9 percent budget rollbacks, arguing that the cuts would come too heavily through layoffs.
Al Martinez, president of Service Employees International Union Local 1107, also balked at the union making concessions to help meet the 9 percent targets.
Local government lobbyists and legislators objected Tuesday to a bill that would allow the attorney general’s office to fine members of public bodies as much as $500 for violating the open meeting law. But some of them didn’t object to the fine as much as they objected to a “drafting error” that failed to include that before the fine could be levied it must be proven the violation was “willful.”
WEST HOLLYWOOD, Calif. — Fresh from a stumble at the Grammys and muffing the national anthem at the Super Bowl, singer Christina Aguilera was arrested early Tuesday near the Sunset Strip on suspicion of being drunk in public. Aguilera, 30, was “extremely intoxicated” when a car driven by her boyfriend was stopped at about 2:45 a.m., Los Angeles County sheriff’s Deputy Bill McSweeney said.
Nevada lawmakers launched a new bid Tuesday to block a proposed gravel quarry at Sloan Hills outside Henderson. Similar bills to declare mining off-limits on 800 acres overseen by the Bureau of Land Management stalled and died in last year’s session of Congress.
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