Las Vegas stadium subsidy opponents fear proposed zoning code change

It’s easy to get a new soccer stadium that Las Vegas taxpayers may not want. Just call it something else. Stadium subsidy opponents fear that’s the reasoning behind a bill set for introduction at City Hall next week.

 
Samsung clarifies creepy eavesdropping SmartTV policy

The company said its privacy policy had been misinterpreted. Samsung says its voice recognition technology works similarly to any other speech-to-text service.

 
NYC cop charged with manslaughter in shooting of unarmed man

A New York City rookie police officer was charged during a Wednesday court appearance with manslaughter in the second degree and five other offenses for the fatal shooting of an unarmed man while the officer patrolled the darkened stairwell of a housing project last November.

 
Florida dumpster sleepers end up trapped in garbage truck

A man and a woman sleeping in a dumpster after a night of drinking at a Florida casino ended up at a hospital complaining of back pain after they had to be rescued from a garbage truck, police said.

Vegas remembers Jerry Tarkanian — PHOTOS

Legendary UNLV coach Jerry Tarkanian died Wednesday morning at Valley Hospital Medical Center. Here’s what his fans had to say about him.

 
Captain convicted in Costa Concordia shipwreck

An Italian court convicted the former captain of the Costa Concordia cruise liner on Wednesday for his role in the 2012 shipwreck that killed 32 people and sentenced him to 16 years in prison.

 
Man charged in shooting deaths of 3 North Carolina students

A 46-year-old man has been charged with murder in the shooting deaths of three students in an apartment near the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill campus.

Big names and small behind NHL push

Gavin Maloof was ticking off a long list of celebrities who have jumped on the NHL to Las Vegas bandwagon when he stopped in midsentence.

 
Bay Area man with measles rode public transit for 3 days

Commuters on San Francisco’s Bay Area Rapid Transit system may have been exposed to measles last week after an East Bay resident with the disease rode a BART train to and from work in the city for three days while infectious, public health officials said on Wednesday.

Rural Nevada seen as growing international tourist draw

The state’s new Global Tourism Summit — the event replacing the annual Governor’s Conference on Tourism — will be Nov. 16-17 in Southern Nevada, an executive with the Nevada Tourism Commission said Tuesday.

Tark’s death gets me to thinking about the man — and my old man

There’s something in the sports writer’s code, an unwritten rule, about not asking for autographs. When I heard that Jerry Tarkanian had died Wednesday morning, asking him for his autograph when I was a young sports writer was one of the first things that popped into my mind.

Economists see strongest U.S. GDP growth since 2005

WASHINGTON — The U.S. economy is set to record its best performance in a decade this year as a rapidly strengthening labor market buoys domestic demand, giving the Federal Reserve the confidence to start tightening monetary policy, according to a Reuters poll of economists released Wednesday.

Fed rethinking employment rates in setting interest rates

Federal Reserve officials are debating a historic shift in one of the core economic gauges that could lead the central bank to move even slower than now thought once it lifts its rates from rock bottom levels.

Teen allegedly kidnapped, raped pizza delivery driver

A female delivery driver for Domino’s Pizza was held at gunpoint in Northern California and sexually assaulted by a teenager, apparently after he ordered the pizza, police said on Tuesday.

Vegas Valley proves desirable location for securing cloud data

Being entrusted with other companies’ Internet cloud data isn’t a task Summerlin-area Cobalt Data Centers takes lightly. Its high-tech security efforts include retina scanners and Kevlar-reinforced exterior walls. Being in the desert — far from natural diasasters such as hurricanes and earthquakes and not having a nuclear plant nearby — also makes Las Vegas a desirable location for cloud data storage.

Bill pushed by Calif. senators would protect desert lands near Nevada

More than a million acres of California desert, including a prized Joshua tree forest just southwest of Searchlight, would receive new federal protection under a bill being pushed by Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif.

Man gets 16 to 40 years in park shooting that paralyzed teen

A Clark County judge sentenced Elijah Alvarado to 16 to 40 years in prison Monday for a shooting at a skateboard park that left Keaton Belliston paralyzed from the waist down.

Reader-submitted photos and adoptable pets, Feb. 12-18, 2015

View Neighborhood News readers send photos of their pets and everyday lives, and View features photos of pets ready for adoption each week. To submit a photo, email View copy editor Anne King at aking@viewnews.com or mail to View, C/O Anne King, 1111 W. Bonanza Road, Las Vegas, NV 89125. Photos cannot be returned, and due to the high volume, they are often scheduled a month or two in advance.

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