Impact Nevada: Elections and students rally

The TV program features an interview with R-J columnists Steve Sebelius and Glenn Cook about eliminating municipal elections in odd-numbered years.

Nevada team helps Japan during nuclear crisis

Keeping people safe from Japan’s nuclear crisis hinges on radiation measurements that a team of experts from Nevada have been taking for 10 days from aircraft flying a relatively close but safe distance from the crippled reactors, said the response team’s co-founder in an interview Friday.

Popular radio personality O’Neil remembered as a gentle man

“What a way to go,” said Doug James, a former colleague of longtime on-air personality Scott O’Neil, who died Thursday at age 69 at the South Point Showroom as he was taping the syndicated “The Dennis Bono Show,” on which O’Neil was Bono’s sidekick.

Record number of property owners fight for lower taxes

Homeowners Ralph and Joyce Millard appealed the $386,000 taxable value assessed by Clark County and won a $40,000 reduction. They were among the record number of property owners who challenged the county’s assessments this year.

Police hunt for suspects in beating death

Las Vegas police are asking the public’s help in locating persons of interest in the beating death of a 51-year-old man.

Bill would ban transgender job discrimination

A Clark County district judge told legislators Friday that if they don’t pass a bill outlawing job discrimination against transgender people, then “that is tantamount to allowing discrimination to continue.”

Arizona prison ready to take more inmates

Glaring security, personnel and equipment failures have been addressed and improved at a privately operated state prison in northwest Arizona, according to the Department of Corrections.

Bill aims to boost economic development in Nevada

The state of Nevada would invest millions of dollars in private businesses and academic research and streamline its economic development agencies under bill being considered in the Legislature.

Sex offender arrested in molestation case in Arizona

A convicted sex offender broke into a home, kidnapped an 8-year-old girl and molested her outside the home early Thursday, according to police in Lake Havasu City, Ariz.

Idaho man pleads guilty to money laundering

An Idaho man with ties to the anti-government “Sovereign Movement” appeared before a Las Vegas judge Friday and admitted he laundered about $1.3 million after undercover FBI agents told him the money came from a bank fraud scheme.

Bill aims to halt damage to homes in foreclosure

A bill before the Nevada Legislature would make it a felony to intentionally damage or remove any part of a home that the occupant knew was in foreclosure. A homeowner or renter who breaks the law could face one to four years in prison and up to $5,000 in fines.

Foreclosure procedures cause confusion for homeowners

Henderson homeowner Bruce Clemmer said he came home to a 120-day foreclosure notice on his door the week after a story about his frustrating loan modification experience with Merrill Lynch was published in the March 13 Las Vegas Review-Journal.

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