Week in Review: Top News

Voters picked Carolyn Goodman and Chris Giunchigliani to square off in June for the right to become the next mayor of Las Vegas.

Buoyed by her popular term-limited husband, Oscar, Goodman cruised to an expected first-place finish in Tuesday's municipal primary, but Giunchigliani had to sweat out a 15-vote win over fellow Clark County Commissioner Larry Brown.

The drama was harder to find elsewhere.

Incumbent City Council members Ricki Barlow and Lois Tarkanian in Las Vegas, Debra March and Gerri Schroder in Henderson and Mayor Roger Tobler in Boulder City won re-election outright.

MONDAY

Standoff ends in death

Police shot and killed a man who entered a random apartment near Fremont Street and held a woman hostage for 12 hours.

The man, identified as Michael Dean Chevalier Jr., 48, had no known criminal record in Clark County, but he was convicted of manslaughter in Michigan in 1983, according to public records.

Police said Chevalier shot at a sedan he mistook for an undercover police vehicle and then fired at SWAT officers as they entered the apartment.

TUESDAY

Last call for Dotty's?

Clark County commissioners effectively put an end to the business model used by the Dotty's Gaming & Spirits operation, agreeing to changes in an ordinance that governs the operation of slot machines inside taverns.

Dotty's critics argued that the businesses were licensed as taverns but essentially operated as casinos.

Dotty's attorney Chris Kaempfer said after the hearing he expects the company will file a lawsuit in an attempt to overturn the changes.

WEDNESDAY

Stampede of elephants

Four months before Nevada's GOP presidential caucus, Republican White House hopefuls will debate in Las Vegas on Oct. 18 in a live televised forum hosted by CNN, organizers announced.

The event is sanctioned by the GOP as part of the Western Republican Leadership Conference, a four-day gathering of party leaders across the West and candidates competing for their nomination.

Nevada will be a big player in the 2012 White House sweepstakes as it holds the first early election campaign contest in the West on Feb. 18, after the Iowa caucus and the New Hampshire primary.

THURSDAY

Hello, 'health village'

A developer unveiled plans for a $1.5 billion Henderson "health village" to include a new St. Rose hospital.

The master plan for the Union Village project calls for medical, residential, entertainment, cultural arts and specialty retail space, as well as a senior retirement community, on 171 acres of city-owned land east of U.S. Highway 95 and north of Galleria Drive.

The developer called it "the first integrated health village in the world" and said it would create 17,000 jobs -- direct, indirect and during construction -- and generate billions of dollars in tax revenue.

FRIDAY

Institute slashes staff

Faced with $100 million in debt, the Nevada Cancer Institute laid off half of its 300-member staff.

The deep cuts at the Summerlin institute included researchers, doctors, nurses and administrative staff.

But patients currently in treatment at the institute will not be affected, according to Michael Yackira, chairman of the institute's board of directors.