WEEK IN REVIEW: Top news
A modern-day range war simmered last week in the northeastern corner of Clark County, as the Bureau of Land Management prepared to round up renegade livestock on public land and the Bunkerville rancher who claimed the cattle promised to protect his property.
Cliven Bundy, 65, received a letter Monday from the BLM informing him that he continues to be in violation of a 1998 federal injunction to stop grazing cattle on public lands.
Bundy contends that Clark County, not the BLM, is the proper landlord for public lands.
He said he intended to resist government efforts to round up his cattle from rangeland where his family has lived since 1877.
The potential standoff was averted at the eleventh hour, when the BLM's Washington, D.C., office, headed by the bureau's former Nevada state director, Bob Abbey, called off the roundup, citing safety concerns.
Monday
A gruesome first
The Clark County coroner's office identified a woman who jumped to her death from the Hoover Dam bypass bridge Saturday night in what authorities called the first suicide there since the span opened in October 2010.
The body of 60-year-old Patricia Oakley of San Jose, Calif., was recovered from the Colorado River on Sunday.
Police officers spent about 30 minutes trying to talk Oakley down before she jumped from the 900-foot-high bridge.
Tuesday
Gay rights fight
A national gay rights advocacy group took its state-by-state fight for marriage equality to a federal court for the first time, filing a lawsuit to force Nevada to allow gay and lesbian couples to marry.
The Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund lawsuit focused on the differences between rights granted by a domestic partnership law passed by the Legislature in 2009 and a gay marriage ban made part of the state constitution by voters in 2002.
Wednesday
GSA cancels on Vegas
The GSA scandal claimed its first victim in Las Vegas.
A one-day trade show at a modest off-Strip hotel was canceled by the General Services Administration in the fallout over the extravagant 2010 conference it held at the M Resort in Henderson.
The Hampton Inn Tropicana will collect a cancellation fee from the GSA for calling off the show, but the hotel still will lose money on refunds to exhibitors.
The event was budgeted by the federal agency at less than $3,000, a far cry from the $800,000 the GSA blew on the M Resort extravaganza.
Thursday
River outlook bleak
Federal forecasters slashed their projected levels for the Colorado River, Southern Nevada's primary water source, after an unusually warm, dry March sent mountain snow into full retreat.
Even before last month, forecasters were predicting a below-average year on the Colorado. Now they expect this to be the second-driest year the river has seen since drought hit the region in 2000.
Lake Mead is not expected to feel too much of an impact right away because last year was so wet.
Friday
Mother indicted
A woman acquitted of murder in the fatal shooting of her ex-husband 20 years ago in Florida has been indicted on three felonies in the shooting of her adult son last summer.
Authorities say Linda Cooney shot Kevin Cooney with the same gun she used to kill his father in Florida.
Kevin Cooney was struck in the neck and was paralyzed. So far, he has not cooperated with authorities, though he has told medical staff that his mother shot him.
NUMBERS
$1 million
The buy-in for the World Series of Poker's new tournament, which is expected to generate the richest prize in poker history at more than $12.3 million.
3,500
How many Twitter followers Bishop Gorman's Shabazz Muhammad lost after he picked UCLA over Kentucky, according to Kentucky sports blogger Matt Jones.
80-100
How many feet police said a 61-year-old man fell at Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area on Wednesday night - and survived almost unscathed.
0
The number of homes built at Coyote Springs in the 12 years since plans were announced for what was to be Nevada's largest master-planned community.
QUOTES
"Snowpacks were falling faster than a 3-year-old in high heels."
RANDY JULANDER
A Federal snow survey supervisor, talking about unusually warm, dry conditions in march that sent snow levels retreating in the mountains that feed the Colorado River.
"This was a first for us. It's kind of stupid if you think about it. You're going to let a friend put a loaded gun to your head?"
LT. CLINT NICHOLS
of the Metropolitan Police Department's Robbery Homicide Bureau, discussing the recent stickup scheme in which one robber would act as a patron and pretend to be taken hostage by another robber.
"No more moo in '92 and cattle-free in '93."
CLIVEN BUNDY
Summing up the Bureau of Land Management's attitude toward ranching on federal plan in Clark County in the early 1990s. Bundy has been running his livestock on public land - but refusing to pay federal grazing fees - for the past 20 years.
"There are more people that have walked on the moon than have witnessed an earthquake event at Devil's Hole."
KEVIN WILSON
an aquatic ecologist for the National Park Service, after a March 20 earthquake in southern Mexico caused water to slosh in Devil's Hole, west of Pahrump. A team of researchers happened to catch the rare "desert tsunami" on video.
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