A Texas businessman claims Nye County officials violated his civil rights in 2007 when they used a residency requirement to stop him from taking over the Chicken Ranch brothel near Pahrump.
Normally, I’m not a drug pusher. But today’s an exception. If you don’t have insurance or are underinsured, and are not on Medicare or Medicaid, do I have a deal for you.
If you’ve been hoping for a tax cut, then 13 might just be your lucky number.
February’s federal stimulus bill directs employers to withhold a little less from each worker’s paycheck, so the average American can expect a $13 boost in his weekly take-home pay beginning this month. The typical single taxpayer will keep an extra $400 in 2009; couples should double that break. Some employers implemented new withholding rules March 1, but the law doesn’t require everyone to comply until April 1.
Read more about the tax cut and what Las Vegans have to say about it (for better or worse) here…
ELKO — The Elko County Commission is trying to find a way to block or at least postpone the U.S. Forest Service’s pending plan to regulate use of national forest roads and close some it determines are redundant or damaging to the environment.
A court ruling this week means that all manner of “free speech” is now allowed at the Fremont Street Experience, and that could include everything from handing out information about your favorite charity to panhandling or passing out adult entertainment fliers.
CARSON CITY — Nevada higher education officials and legislators agreed Friday that rather than cutting the budgets of the state’s two universities by 50 percent, reductions should be equalized in all colleges and universities.
Grappling on the ground with a suspect on a dark, empty patch of desert, North Las Vegas police officer Michael Eggers reached around the suspect’s waist and unexpectedly grabbed the barrel of a gun.
A Las Vegas couple was arrested Thursday after their 4-month-old girl was found malnourished and with multiple rib fractures.
Students at Bailey Middle School in Las Vegas don’t lack for opportunities to experience the great outdoors. The Lake Mead National Recreation Area is only seven miles away. But teachers fear interest in nature is declining. Students are not getting out of the city.
Maybe Nevada Gov. Jim Gibbons and AIG executives can start a support group together — a place where the politically clueless can remind one another of the huge bull’s-eyes on their back sides.
Mortgage broker Mark Baker of Meridias Capital in Las Vegas has been deluged with 50 phone calls a day from prospective borrowers, many of whom are first-time homebuyers.
CARSON CITY — A measure that would give Nevada bankers a tax break isn’t likely to win approval given the state’s bleak finances, its author says.
Nonprofit groups have a new way to raise money. Supporters who shop in an organization’s virtual shopping mall can lead to donations of up to 25 percent of the purchase price.
Progressive Gaming International, which saw substantially all of its assets sold to International Game Technology in a foreclosure sale in January, formally filed for bankruptcy liquidation this week.
SEBRING, Fla. (AP) — Audi introduced a new car with the same old winning results in the Mobil 1 Twelve Hours of Sebring.
Allan McNish, Tom Kristensen and Rinaldo Capello, who now have a combined total of 12 victories in the sports car classic at Sebring International Raceway, outdueled a Peugeot shared by Franck Montagny, Sebastien Bourdais and Stephane Sarrazine on Saturday in a battle of diesel-powered prototype sports cars.
