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.
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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.