Speedo leaves Nike in its wake

It’s not often that Nike runs from a fight. But in the battle of high-tech swimsuits, give Speedo a victory by technical knockout.

Reid works on bill for UNLV, CSN land

WASHINGTON — The long-held ambitions of state education leaders to establish a North Las Vegas campus for UNLV would get a boost through a bill that was announced on Tuesday in Congress.

Halverson appears before grand jury

District Court Judge Elizabeth Halverson appeared exhausted as she sat in a wheelchair outside a courtroom Tuesday afternoon.

Property tax cap dies on the vine

CARSON CITY — In what is expected to be the death blow to the effort to put a measure before voters to cap property tax increases, the Nevada Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected a request to disqualify the judge who ruled the measure ineligible for the ballot.

Sprinklers praised after two Strip fires

Two fires within 12 hours at separate hotel resorts on the Strip have local fire officials hailing the sprinkler systems that snuffed out flames before serious damage occurred.

GOP trio plans Nevada stops

RENO — President Bush is scheduled to be in Reno next week to address a conference on enhancing hunting opportunities and managing game species and their habitat around the country, a White House official confirmed Tuesday.

Nevada legislators skeptical about bailout plan

WASHINGTON — Nevada lawmakers are proving to be a tough sell for the Bush administration as it tries to persuade Congress to pass a $700 billion financial bailout plan.

State employee is arrested

A state employee was arrested on felony charges of misconduct of a public officer and using personal information for unlawful purposes, the state attorney general announced Tuesday.

Retiree health benefits threaten other programs, report says

CARSON CITY — If Nevada’s elected officials don’t act quickly to rein in the cost of providing subsidized health care to their retirees, then programs and services from education to public safety will suffer as more money is diverted to a benefit that has disappeared from the private sector, a new Las Vegas Chamber of Commerce study suggests.

Reopening: Next Week For H Street

This week readers want to know when H Street will be reopened at Bonanza Road; whether there is any way to fix the ramp meters that control traffic flow onto Interstate 15; and whether they are ever going to fix Stewart Avenue between Maryland Parkway and Las Vegas Boulevard.

Low turnout, some anxiety at event over UNLV cuts

The word “crowd” would be overstating Tuesday’s turnout at a UNLV event intended to help students figure out what budget cuts mean to them.

Tape details FAA’s efforts

Air traffic controllers at North Las Vegas Airport scrambled Aug. 28 to clear a runway for a pilot to land a plane with one of its engines on fire but lost contact with him shortly before he crashed into a house, an audiotape released Tuesday by the Federal Aviation Administration reveals.

Crash victim was general contractor

Floyd Brooks Williams III, president of Brooks Corp. general contractor in Las Vegas, and his wife, Diane, were killed in a small-plane crash Sept. 17 near Kremmling, Colo. They were both 51.

Man accused of injuring officer is arrested

Federal and local law enforcement officers on Tuesday arrested a 29-year-old man wanted for ramming his car into the vehicle of an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer last week, injuring the officer.

Henderson slaying probed

A 23-year-old man was shot inside a townhouse Tuesday morning and later died at the hospital, Henderson police said.

Adults to be included in judicial education program

Project REAL volunteers have led about 7,000 elementary, middle and high school students on state and federal court tours in Las Vegas during the past three years.

Suit alleges construction workers underpaid

Construction workers in Nevada, California and Arizona were underpaid for at least the past four years, according to allegations in a federal lawsuit against a large residential construction company and its subsidiaries.

‘Foggy’ memory attacked

O.J. Simpson lawyer Yale Galanter and witness Charles Ehrlich have known each other for 15 years.

Jane ‘Cordova’ Doe trial starts

Dozens of questions were raised when 3-year-old Jane “Cordova” Doe was found dead in a garbage bin in Las Vegas more than two years ago.

Trial awash in health issues

O.J. Simpson’s kidnapping and armed robbery case has been called a circus, but it’s beginning to look as if it should be dubbed an emergency room.

Be ‘patriotic’: pay more

Leave it to Old Senate Hand Joe Biden to inject some much-needed honesty into an increasingly deceitful presidential campaign.

RESTAURANT REPORT

All Star Donuts Chinese Food, 1615 Las Vegas Blvd. South, received 40 demerits Sept. 10. Violations included opened bags and boxes of food products stored improperly. GRADE: C

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