WEEK IN REVIEW: Top news

In the longest ever visit to Nevada by a sitting U.S. president, Barack Obama spent three days at a Lake Las Vegas resort cramming for his first debate against GOP challenger Mitt Romney.

With the extended stay, Obama extended his record for most presidential visits to Nevada to 15 and counting. Eleven of those stops were in Southern Nevada, more than any sitting president before him.

Obama's stay included a rally in Las Vegas Sunday evening and an impromptu trip Monday to a Henderson campaign office, where he delivered pizza to volunteers and cold-called a few voters.

On Tuesday, he took a break from debate prep to tour Hoover Dam.

On Wednesday he boarded Air Force One and flew to Denver, where he turned in a debate performance that has been widely panned by pundits and partisans.

So much for coming to Las Vegas to study.

Monday

Fugitive no more

Fugitive former prosecutor David Schubert was back in custody in San Diego, his lawyer said.

Louis Schneider said his client called him from the San Diego County jail to tell him that he was looking forward to resolving his drug case.

Schneider said Schubert indicated that he was arrested at the Mexican border Sunday afternoon while coming back into the country to face punishment for his cocaine conviction.

Tuesday

West Nile claims victim

A 75-year-old woman stricken last month with the year's first documented local case of West Nile virus has died, and four other Southern Nevadans have come down with the disease, the Southern Nevada Health District reported.

Two of the four new cases, a 68-year-old woman and a 64-year-old man, remain hospitalized with the same potentially fatal form of the disease. A horse that contracted the disease was euthanized.

Four people have died of West Nile in Clark County since 2003.

The neuroinvasive form of the virus affects nervous systems and can cause ecephalitis, an inflammation of the brain, and meningitis, which causes inflammation to the membrane around the brain and spinal cord.

Wednesday

A 'Good Ride' ending

Garth Brooks will end his monthly solo acoustic shows at Wynn Las Vegas on Nov. 17 after four more performances, hotel officials announced.

The headlining gig began in December 2009 in an arrangement always described as open-ended but planned to last five years. The reasons for the early breakup weren't cited in mutually admiring statements from Brooks and Steve Wynn.

Thursday

Taking the plunge

The Wet 'n' Wild water park brand is returning to Las Vegas, this time with the financial backing of Andre Agassi, Steffi Graf, members of the Thomas and Mack family and Australian entertainment conglomerate Village Roadshow Limited.

The $50 million park, which had been known as Splash Canyon, is set to open by Memorial Day.

Construction near Sunset Road and I-215 in the southwest Las Vegas is already under way.

Friday

Escorted to jail

A key player in a large escort service company authorities allege is tied to prostitution has been arrested by federal agents and charged with a financial crime.

Emmanouil "Manny" Varagiannis, 42, who also is the general manager of the popular strip club Olympic Garden, was ordered released on his own recognizance with electronic monitoring while he fights the single felony.

The charge involves unlawfully structuring more than $1.8 million in transactions aimed at evading federal financial requirements.