Prosecutors, attorneys for news organizations, and Kirk’s widow urged state District Judge Tony Graf to keep the proceedings open.
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“I was walking up to the room and I pressed the elevator button, and then all of a sudden, I feel myself being jostled and and people trying to grab me and put me in handcuffs,” he said Monday on “Jimmy Kimmel Live!”
The bombardment included hundreds of drones and a record 32 ballistic missiles, wounding at least 10 people. It specifically took aim at the power grid, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said.
Six Republican defendants are accused of plotting to give Donald Trump Nevada’s electoral votes in 2020, even though Joe Biden won the state.
Direct investments into mining companies have come without needed congressional oversight, three lawmakers say.
CARSON CITY — Gov. Jim Gibbons on Tuesday vetoed a bill to require licensing for off-road vehicles and one requiring the state Health Division to prepare annual reports on the causes of major medical events.
CARSON CITY — As promised, Gov. Jim Gibbons on Monday vetoed the bill that would allow same- and opposite-sex couples to become legal domestic partners with many of the rights and privileges of married couples.
CARSON CITY — Declaring equal rights “a basic American principle,” Gov. Jim Gibbons signed into law a bill to prevent discrimination against gays and lesbians in places of public accommodations, his staff announced Saturday.
CARSON CITY — Bills to allow collective bargaining agreements to supersede state law and require hospitals to establish nursing staff levels were vetoed Saturday by Gov. Jim Gibbons.
CARSON CITY — Who won? Who lost? And is it all over? Those were the questions on a sunny Saturday at the Legislature, the day after the frenzied passage of the budget and taxes.
With state spending for the next two years and tax hikes to fund it waiting for Gov. Jim Gibbons’ veto, legislators don’t have the business that usually occupies them for the last week of the session, set to end June 1.The centerpiece of the budget compromise, a $781 million package of increases to existing taxes, landed in Gibbons’ office around 4:30 p.m. Friday.
CARSON CITY — Their 2009 session isn’t over, but Nevada lawmakers have a relatively easy final week starting Tuesday compared with all the work they got done on the state budget, a major tax measure and scores of other bills in the preceding week.
Higher taxes, adjustments in retirement rules for state workers, a governor with a veto pen. These are just some of the issues lawmakers face as they try to wrap up the 2009 session. If you have any thoughts on those or other matters and would like to share them with your representatives in Carson City,here’s a contact list for all the Southern Nevada legislators.
CARSON CITY — A day after a bill authorizing the state’s water engineer to impose higher fees was vetoed by Gov. Jim Gibbons, Nevada lawmakers overrode him and enacted the measure.
CARSON CITY — The Legislature passed a $781 million tax increase and delivered it to Gov. Jim Gibbons on Friday, barely meeting a 5 p.m. deadline and setting the stage for Gibbons’ expected veto.