Commission OKs search for financing for new Las Vegas city hall

The proposed Las Vegas City Hall moved another step toward approval Friday when the Clark County Debt Management Commission voted 11-0 to allow the city to seek up to $267 million in financing for the project.

Language was no barrier for couple

She was a young American attorney. He was a young French chef with a Mobil five-star rating.

Fight brings two arrests

Because tensions at Rancho High School remained high after a lunchtime fight in the cafeteria, school officials canceled a Friday night basketball game rather than risk another confrontation between students.

Stimulus package passes

WASHINGTON — In a major victory for President Barack Obama, Democrats muscled a $787 billion stimulus bill through Congress late Friday in hopes of combating the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression. Republican opposition was nearly unanimous.

Measure to add protections for judges pushed, decried

CARSON CITY — A Reno judge wounded by a man who was going through a divorce and had just killed his estranged wife asked lawmakers on Friday to support a measure extending additional privacy and protections to judges.

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death treated as suspicious

Russian National Ballet

What is it about ballet that makes even the most unathletic among us feel so hopeful?

‘There’s no punishment there’

It’s rare that the state Ethics Commission does anything useful, but perhaps its decision this week to reject a deal with a former state official who is accused of approving unauthorized pay hikes for himself and his staff represents a turning point.

In Brief

Festival will offer help to job seekers

As Obama crafts plan, lenders halt foreclosures

WASHINGTON — The biggest players in the mortgage industry are halting home foreclosures while the Obama administration develops its plan to help struggling homeowners.

Foreclosures in Las Vegas drop in January

Las Vegas home foreclosures declined 20 percent in January to 2,609 from 3,283 the previous month, online source Foreclosures.com reported Friday.

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