The Henderson City Council voted 4-1 Tuesday night to raise water and sewer rates for the third time in three years. The city’s acting director of Utility Services said failing to raise nearly $13 million over the next four years through four consecutive rate increases would cripple the city’s ability to maintain $1.5 billion in water and sewer assets and that its bond rating would likely be downgraded.
Gov. Brian Sandoval on Tuesday expressed confidence in Carson City Judge James T. Russell’s ability to oversee redrawing of congressional and legislative district boundaries.
Miranda Du, who came to the United States in childhood as a Vietnamese refugee, took a step Tuesday toward becoming a U.S. District Court judge in Nevada. Sixteen members of Du’s family dotted the audience as she was questioned at a confirmation hearing by members of the Senate Judiciary Committee.
Clark County commissioners Tuesday funneled $4 million in federal neighborhood stabilization program funding to Housing for Nevada, a nonprofit that aims to purchase, rehabilitate and resell foreclosed or abandoned homes to qualified buyers. In this case, the group plans to target at least 25 homes in the Winchester area, bordered by Eastern Avenue and U.S. Highway 95 between Sahara Avenue and Desert Inn Road.
“What happens here, stays here,” put Sin City on the marketing map.
Comedian-magician Penn Jillette promised organizers of the Global Gaming Expo that he would refrain from profanities and blasphemy during his keynote address Tuesday at the Sands Expo and Convention Center. Jillette acknowledged that he does not drink alcohol or favor games of any kind, “but I also believe everybody who wants to gamble should be allowed to do so.”
Strained talks between the Service Employees International Union and Clark County officials boiled over at Tuesday’s County Commission meeting. Union members accused county officials of stalling contract negotiations and giving the commission inaccurate numbers. County administrators provided a chart that showed the union members received average total salary increases of 12.5 percent since 2009, even after concessions.
A 37-year-old California man was arrested Monday night at a resort on the Strip after traveling to Las Vegas with a 16-year-old girl who had been reported missing by her mother about seven hours earlier.
A cold front expected to arrive Wednesday could bring several inches of snow to Mount Charleston and low temperatures in the upper 40s to some west valley neighborhoods. Forecasters expect the storm to bring wind, rain and unseasonably cool temperatures through Thursday.
The defense rested its case today in the trial of a Navy SEAL Nicholas Bickle, accused of bringing weapons into the country from Iraq and conspiring with others to sell them. A fellow SEAL testified that the suggestion that a SEAL could bypass customs inspections and sneak so-called “war trophies” into the country “would be laughable if the implications weren’t so serious.”
Dr. Richard Chudacoff’s career was ruined when he was suspended from University Medical Center on allegations he provided inadequate care to patients, his attorney told Clark County officials Tuesday. The County Commission paid Chudacoff $65,000 today as mandated. District Court is considering a request for county officials to pay another $433,000 in Chudacoff’s legal fees.
Democratic Rep. Shelley Berkley spoke in favor of a bill that threatens sanctions against China over the value of the yuan. Berkley also scolded senators who sided against it. One was Sen. Dean Heller, R-Nev., who she is challenging in the 2012 election.
A bus taking 44 students home from school was hit by a car this afternoon on Tropicana Avenue near Interstate 15. No students were seriously injured, but the bus driver and three students were taken to a hospital as a precaution.
“What Happens Here, Stays Here,” the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority’s catch phrase, was one of two winners named to the 2011 annual Madison Avenue Advertising Walk of Fame in New York City.
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