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After 63 years, flying his old plane again

The Korean War ended before Jim Simmons could be a combat fighter pilot. But on Friday afternoon in Henderson, the 84-year-old took to the skies in the same plane he last flew in training in the early 1950s.

Will the Reid machine sputter without Harry at the throttle?

Sen. Harry Reid’s retirement raises questions about the future of the powerful political organization he has used to keep an iron grip on the Nevada Democratic Party for a decade.

2 dead in hang-gliding accident near Jean

A hang-gliding instructor and his 12-year-old student died Friday afternoon after a crash on a dry lakebed near Jean, according to the Nevada Highway Patrol.

Sandoval said to be on Jeb Bush’s VP short list

Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush hasn’t officially said he’s running for the White House, yet he’s already got his eye on Nevada Gov. Brian Sandoval as his potential vice presidential running mate.

 
Reid won’t seek re-election to Senate in 2016

U.S. Sen. Harry Reid announced Friday that he will not seek re-election, a decision that signals the oncoming end of an era in Nevada and scrambles the political landscape in the state and in the nation’s capital.

Nevada legislators educated about schools takeover bill

A bill that would authorize the state Department of Education to take over underperforming schools was described Friday as a measure of last resort for institutions that have been unable to make progress in student achievement after years of effort.

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