WASHINGTON — Newly declassified government documents made public Thursday are shedding some of the official mystery surrounding Nevada’s role in developing spy planes of the Cold War.
Las Vegas police are searching for a suspect in a shooting that wounded two bystanders on Fremont Street in June.
■ WINNING/LOSING PITCHER: 51s, Rafael Montero (5-3); Zephyrs, Sam Dyson (1-2)
Chaparral and Western, two of the city’s oldest and most economically challenged schools, received sizable donations from the same unnamed benefactor during the offseason. The blank checks allowed football coaches Bill Froman and Donnie Davis to modernize their football programs from top to bottom and provided a much-needed shot in the arm.
The problem with special-interest politics is, eventually, special interests collide. Take Clark County’s horse roping ordinance. The animal welfare crowd, as emotional, invested and unrelenting as any political group you’ll find, got it approved.
Assembly Speaker Marilyn Kirkpatrick, D-North Las Vegas, is a pragmatic, policy-oriented lawmaker who did a fairly good job helming the Assembly her first time out this year.
As President Barack Obama condemned the violence in Egypt and the death toll mounted to more than 600 Thursday, Egyptian immigrants in Las Vegas in turn condemned Obama, urging the president to immediately withdraw $1.3 billion in annual aid from the military now accused of shooting many of the dead.
On the heels of the 28,000-acre Carpenter 1 wildfire, an illegal campfire flared up on a Mount Charleston hiking trail Monday. Fire crews on foot and a water helicopter took about three hours to contain the flames a half a mile up the Mary Jane Falls trail, the U.S. Forest Service said.
The Arlington Million on Saturday holds a special place in American racing history. It was the world’s first million-dollar horse race and has had so many rich highlights, including a nose win by John Henry over The Bart in the first running in 1981.
Safety Frank Crawford played football in the Southeastern Conference, even starting three games two years ago for Mississippi, and is determined to go out strong at UNLV.
Left wing Adam Huxley will return to the Wranglers this season as a player-assistant coach. An enforcer who has spent four of his nine ECHL seasons with Las Vegas, Huxley has the franchise record for most penalty minutes in a season (294 in 2004-05) and career (709).
UNLV was picked to finish third Thursday in the Mountain West women’s soccer preseason poll. San Diego State was predicted to repeat as league champions.
Aside from his strikeout of fellow Las Vegas native Bryce Harper, Brewers relief pitcher Brandon Kintzler said he wasn’t focused during Milwaukee’s July 4 loss to Washington during which he gave up a decisive three-run homer to Wilson Ramos.
With the Ultimate Fighting Championship set to host one of its most important cards of the year in Boston on Saturday, there was one name that was almost assuredly going to be part of the event.
CARSON CITY — A First Amendment battle is underway to get Nevada prison inmates access to publications that are now off-limits based on what the American Civil Liberties Union of Nevada contends is an unconstitutional Corrections Department policy.
One person suffered minor burns during a Henderson house fire Thursday afternoon. Firefighters went to the house on Danalda Court, near Warm Springs Road and Valle Verde Drive, about 4:30 p.m. Crews had the flame under control in about 15 minutes, fire officials said.
A medieval grave containing 12th-century skeletal remains has been discovered in Germany thanks to a four-legged, furry creature.
The single-engine plane that crash-landed Wednesday evening near Cold Creek was involved in a November accident at Sacramento Executive Airport in California, according to the National Transportation Safety Board.
A Venetian ballroom on Thursday was packed with 1,783 people entering their second professions or starting their first. Come Aug. 26, they’ll be standing at the front of classrooms in the nation’s fifth-largest school system – Clark County School District – expecting 312,000 students. New teachers spent two days at the Strip hotel for necessary training.
A homeless man whose body was found in a dumpster Monday had been off the radar since he spent three nights in the Catholic Charities shelter on Las Vegas Boulevard in 2011.
The man shot by an off-duty police detective Sunday night at the Excalibur had “some diminished capacity,” according to an arrest report released Thursday.
Las Vegas City Hall could be the subject of a televised reality show, according to a proposal before the City Council.
COOPERSTOWN, N.Y. — Calling it a historic moment, Commissioner Bud Selig said Thursday that Major League Baseball plans to expand its video review process next season, giving managers a tool they’ve never had in an effort to dramatically reduce the number of incorrect calls made in games.
CARSON CITY — Initial claims for unemployment in Nevada fell 5 percent in July from the same month last year, marking the eighth straight month that the claims dropped year-over-year.
Ralphie May doesn’t take his freedom for granted. So now he’s trying to liberate fellow comedians who are really “dirty, filthy animals.”
Funeral services are scheduled Monday in Virginia City for Bob Thomas, a former Nevada assemblyman and newspaper columnist.
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