First ladies rally behind school district’s renovation bond

Four former Nevada first ladies vowed Thursday to lend their fundraising prowess to a campaign to win voter support for increasing property taxes to finance a $5.3 billion bond for public school renovations over 10 years – if the Clark County School Board goes for it.

Police seek ‘violent predator’ who attacked two women

Las Vegas police are searching for a man who attacked two women in the central valley in separate incidents this month. One of the women was sexually assaulted.

Scientists altered tests of nukes at test site

A 90-foot-long gun scientists at the Nevada National Security Site use to check the nation’s nuclear weapons stockpile was shut down for two years after plutonium fragments escaped a primary containment vessel, federal officials said Thursday.

Reid gets no movement on federal judicial nominee Cadish

U.S. Sen. Harry Reid has made his case for the Senate to advance his selection for a Nevada federal judgeship but it appears to have fallen on deaf ears.

Nevada’s fastest-growing jobs require no degrees

The fastest growing occupations in the Silver State are retail salespersons, waitresses and waitresses, cashiers and gaming dealers, none of which requires a college degree, according to a study released at a legislative Committee on Education meeting Thursday.

Water pipeline faces another legal threat: snails

First it was tiny fish. Now conservationists hope to use snails no bigger than pinky fingernails to block the Southern Nevada Water Authority’s plan to siphon groundwater from across eastern Nevada.

Bally Technologies’ $228.6 million third-quarter revenues a record

Bally Technologies Inc.’s focus on producing video slot machines featuring pop icons such as Michael Jackson and the Beach Boys helped the game manufacturer post record quarterly earnings and revenues.

Police: New Mexico hot dog vendor attacked rival with cart

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – An Albuquerque hot dog vendor faces a charge of aggravated battery with a deadly weapon after police say he rammed his food cart into a competitor.

Woman pleads not guilty to shooting her son in Las Vegas

A woman acquitted of murder in the fatal shooting of her ex-husband 20 years ago in Florida pleaded not guilty Thursday to three felonies in the shooting of her adult son last summer in their Summerlin home.

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