CARSON CITY — Gov. Jim Gibbons said he will not recommend cutting or delaying 4 percent cost-of-living pay raises for teachers and state workers when he announces his plan today on how to slash $250 million to balance the state budget.
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Valerie Soto on Wednesday offered up her 3-year-old daughter, Yvette Diaz, as an example of who would be hurt by further state budget cuts.
WASHINGTON — Hundreds of people have been arrested and 21 children rescued in what the FBI is calling a five-day roundup of networks of pimps who force children into prostitution.
Little Jason Rimer was alone outside in the big sport utility vehicle. But no one seemed to notice.
About 60 people gathered Wednesday morning outside UNLV to criticize presumptive GOP presidential nominee John McCain, focusing on the war in Iraq and concerns that a McCain presidency would follow the course charted by President Bush over the last eight years.
A man accused of robbing and beating Oakland Raiders receiver Javon Walker alleged in court Wednesday that police pressured his girlfriend to press charges against him in a domestic violence case before he was arrested in the Walker case.
A respected straight shooter who hasn’t missed a session of the Nevada Legislature since 1969 won’t be at the special legislative session Friday.
WASHINGTON — Former Department of Energy and contractor employees who worked at the top secret Area 51 base now are eligible to seek health payments available to nuclear weapons workers who got sick from their jobs, a top federal official said Wednesday.
RENO — An air traffic controller taken ill while on duty in Reno sparked a volley of words Wednesday between the controller’s union and the Federal Aviation Administration, with each accusing the other of using the incident for political gains.
Sherri Love has a history of mental illness dating back more than a decade. The 47-year-old, on trial in District Court on charges she fatally stabbed her 7-year-old daughter, tried to kill herself multiple times and was diagnosed as bipolar, authorities said.
Republican presidential candidate John McCain still supports putting America’s nuclear waste at Nevada’s Yucca Mountain, but he has begun to doubt whether it will ever happen and is stressing that he would make the proposed repository meet environmental and safety standards.
Henderson Police Chief Richard Perkins announced his retirement late Wednesday.
CARSON CITY — A state panel including Gov. Jim Gibbons approved a payment of $419,000 to the Office of the Military on Wednesday to cover some of the cost of looking for missing adventurer Steve Fossett last fall.
Las Vegas headliners are being urged to take a moment and say a word — or seven — to honor comedy legend George Carlin.
Family Court Judge Stefany Miley, who is running for District Court, on Wednesday didn’t oppose a judge’s order unsealing a malpractice lawsuit against her law firm. But Miley hasn’t explained why the firm wanted the case sealed from public view two years ago.
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Republican lawmakers sought to undermine the former Justice Department official as Democrats hoped to elicit new and damaging testimony about Trump’s conduct.
Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto touted bipartisanship as she highlighted provisions in the recent defense spending bill, which increased pay for military service members.
Elementary, middle and high school students will see changes to what time of day their classes will begin and end. The change is aimed to improve academic and health outcomes among students.
The children allegedly assaulted a person sitting on a park bench in the southwest valley two years ago. The lawsuit lists the kids and their parents as defendants.
