The Henderson City Council voted Tuesday to declare pigeons a public nuisance. Police will cite residents who “encourage the roosting or lingering” of the bird by feeding them. The new law relies on a complaint-based system, which means neighbors will have to sing like a canary if they want relief.
Most of the 11 speakers at Tuesday’s hearing on the Nevada National Security Site’s future expressed anti-nuclear sentiments, saying they want to see more solar energy projects and more respect for Western Shoshone interests in the land where U.S. nuclear weapons were tested. They also requested more time to review and comment on an environmental impact statement that covers operations at the former Nevada Test Site.
A jury spent Tuesday listening to secretly recorded firearms sales, but one voice was absent from the recordings: Navy SEAL Nicholas Bickle. Prosecutors claim Bickle smuggled machine guns, other weapons and explosives into the country from the Middle East. Three other defendants, including two Las Vegas men, accepted plea bargains.
The 2011 Mendelsohn Affluent Survey revealed Las Vegas was the No. 1 travel destination in 2010 for adults with an annual household income of more than $100,000. The research by Ipsos Mendelsohn, which collects behavioral data and trend information on luxury consumers, was presented Tuesday by the Luxury Marketing Council.
Clark County officials approved an agreement Tuesday with the prosecutors union that will save the county $1.2 million, almost 7 percent, on its $19.2 million contract through the remainder of the fiscal year. The county is working to plug a $42 million budget gap for fiscal year 2012. The 90-member Clark County Prosecutors Association agreed to take a 3 percent pay cut, a 12-month freeze on longevity pay, a decrease in group health insurance benefits and forfeiting two vacation days.
Secretary of Interior Ken Salazar stopped in Nevada on Tuesday to tout the job-generating power of renewable energy development, speaking at the Silver State North Project, a solar energy plant being built in the Ivanpah Valley, not far from where Interstate 15 crosses into California. The project is the first solar energy facility approved for construction on federal land in Nevada.
Prosecutors will seek the death penalty for one of three people charged with the July slaying of 68-year-old Katherine Cole. Cole’s daughter, Autumn Cole, 44, was one of the defendants spared a possible death sentence.
Instead, prosecutors will seek capital punishment for Joseph Perez, 45, the person authorities believe strangled Katherine Cole with a pillowcase.
A report released Tuesday by the nonprofit Violence Policy Center says Nevada had the highest rate of domestic violence killings of men against women in the nation. Nevada’s rate of homicides per 100,000 people was 2.7. Alabama was second with a rate of 2.64 per 100,000 people.
Without much discussion, the County Commission unanimously approved Tuesday a $225,000 settlement with Roshunda Abney, who didn’t know she was pregnant when she unsuccessfully tried to get treatment at University Medical Center in 2009. The agreement was dated Sept. 9.
Once upon a time freshmen in the U.S. Senate were seen and not heard. Some senators have held to custom for their maiden speeches. Sen. Dean Heller, D-Nev., had not uttered a public word on the Senate floor in four months and 11 days from when he was sworn in to office. Tuesday he gave a 14-minute address on jobs and the economy.
OXFORD, Maine — A Las Vegas hotel-casino operator has been chosen to operate a casino under construction in western Maine.
The government’s crackdown on Internet poker ensnared two of the game’s best-known superstars Tuesday while a prosecutor accused one website of being a “massive ponzi scheme,” defrauding players of more than $443 million. Poker professionals Howard Lederer and Chris Ferguson were added as defendants in a civil money laundering complaint against online gaming company FullTilt Poker, saying the players and executives funneled money to their own accounts, rendering FullTilt insolvent.
LINCOLN, Neb. — An Oregon man pressed his luck one too many times and spent the night in a Nebraska detox cell after twice mistaking a police station for a casino and asking authorities for blackjack chips.
The American Gaming Association made its strongest call to date for Congress to legalize Internet poker, saying Tuesday that regulations are needed to protect U.S. consumers from illegal online gambling operators.
PHOENIX — Just below a sign that said “We Believe,” a speaker blared Journey’s “Don’t Stop Believin’ ” across Arizona’s clubhouse.
EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. — Steve Spagnuolo jogged out to midfield shortly after the final gun, shook hands with mentor Tom Coughlin and probably wished him well the rest of the season.
