Impact Nevada: Balancing the budget

The Impact Nevada TV program for this weekend examines how Gov. Brian Sandoval is confronting a major setback in balancing the state budget (5:30 p.m., Ch. 8).

Mass towing could lead to costly fines for company

Neil Gilfillan shouted a drawn out “Yeah” after hearing Friday that Tow Guys — responsible for the mass towing of about 50 vehicles during the First Friday art walk — was cited for 324 counts of violating 18 towing regulations.

Problematic massage parlors surface in Ward 3 race

Prostitution rhetoric has been thick and plentiful in the Ward 3 City Council race in Las Vegas, and now one candidate is upping the stakes by accusing the city of turning a blind eye to “massage and escort services that are really fronts for the illegal sex trade business.”

Convicted Strip bomber found guilty in 2006 bombing

An illegal immigrant already serving life in prison for killing a man with a pipe bomb explosion outside a Strip casino in 2007 has been convicted in Las Vegas of another bombing several months earlier.

Las Vegas firefighters union, city at odds over contract

Las Vegas firefighters and city negotiators cannot agree on new labor concessions that city officials say are needed to balance the city’s budget without further raiding a dwindling reserve account.

Las Vegas sexual assault suspect sought

Police on Friday released photos of a man suspected of sexually assaulting an employee at a massage parlor last year.

See Chaplin’s ‘City Lights’ in original format

The Henderson Symphony Orchestra is playing the musical score of Charlie Chaplin’s “City Lights” Friday during a showing of the 1931 classic film.

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Thirteen local restaurants are scheduled to participate in the Building Champions Against the Odds Campaign to benefit the Nevada Children’s Center on Wednesday, International Children’s Day.

Things to do

The most recent run of The Metropolitan Opera Live in HD Series at Sam’s Town Century 18 movie theater at Sam’s Town, 5111 Boulder Highway wraps up this week.

Sandoval won’t back all tax extensions to solve budget crisis

Gov. Brian Sandoval will not support reauthorizing all of the $679 million in taxes that expire June 30 as a way to solve an unexpected problem in his budget, his senior adviser said Friday.

‘Taxi,”Grease’ star Jeff Conaway dies at 60

Jeff Conaway, who starred in the sitcom “Taxi” and the movie musical “Grease” and battled drug and alcohol addiction on “Celebrity Rehab,” died Friday.

Las Vegas police shoot, kill man after domestic dispute

Las Vegas police shot and killed a 35-year-old man Friday morning after a domestic dispute in the northeast valley.
The fatal confrontation unfolded about 7:30 a.m. when a neighbor reported a disturbance at 2917 Theresa Ave., near Washington Avenue and Mojave Road.

‘Idol’ winner could wind up on N.C. hometown’s map

GARNER, N.C.– Scotty McCreery put the North Carolina town of Garner on the map. Now, the town is thinking of putting the places where the latest “American Idol” went to school, worked and prayed on a map as well.

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