WASHINGTON — House Democrats said Monday that they would not relent in their dispute with the Senate on a major tax relief package, increasing odds that businesses could lose out on critical tax breaks and millions could get hit by the alternative minimum tax this year.
UNLV coach Mike Sanford said he and his staff constantly make adjustments during games and at halftime, even if the average football fan doesn’t realize it.
Gina Carano has heard all of the criticism lobbed at her about her ever-expanding interests outside the cage.
Immigration officials have entered into an agreement with Las Vegas police that will allow specially trained officers at the Clark County Detention Center to identify immigration violators and initiate deportation proceedings against them.
Nevada’s Nuclear Projects Commission accepted the resignation Monday of Bob Loux, the man who for 23 years led the state’s charge against federal plans to bury nuclear waste in Yucca Mountain and whose career now ends marred by controversy over unauthorized pay raises.
In emotionally wrenching testimony, the 12-year-old daughter of a murder suspect gave conflicting statements Monday when she said her father never struck Jane “Cordova” Doe, the 3-year-old girl killed in 2006 and left in a trash bin.
Prosecutors rested their case Monday in the O.J. Simpson armed robbery trial, setting up the possibility of a verdict by week’s end.
Instead of slashing and cutting its way out of a deepening budget crisis, Nevada should implement a state lottery or introduce new taxes so that the state doesn’t rank so poorly in education, crime and health measurements, according to people who met with Assembly Speaker Barbara Buckley on Monday.
A federal judge struck down a state law on Monday that petitioners claimed hampered their efforts to put statewide ballot measures before voters.
WASHINGTON — Saying it was “the right thing to do,” Republican Jon Porter was the only Nevada lawmaker to vote Monday for the $700 billion bill to shore up the nation’s economic system.
Home builder Tom McCormick sees the credit crunch in the gun-shy consumers who refuse to pull the trigger on big purchases.
Leon Benzer has no shortage of friends. A guy needs all the friends he can get in this world.
A story in Sunday’s Business section focused on an advisory question on increasing hotel room taxes. The measure calls for sending funds from the proposed increase to the state general budget. The money would be earmarked for education spending in the first two years. The money would be used to pay for increased teacher salaries in the following years.
RENO — The Nevada Army National Guard’s medevac helicopter unit is headed to Afghanistan next month.
VIRGINIA CITY — The first wind energy project proposed for the Virginia City area is stirring up more than just wind.
Dana Carvey might resurrect Church Lady when he performs comedy in Las Vegas this weekend because “a lot of people” keep telling him vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin is a lot like Carvey’s old “Saturday Night Live” prude.
Barack Obama may not have been a major player in the reversion to partisan rhetoric which doomed House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s attempt to martial a bipartisan vote for a banking bailout bill Monday (see above.)
The House failed Monday to pass a bailout measure for the nation’s financial system — a direct reflection of the incompetence of the Democratic leadership, particularly Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
It sure is fun to see a politician misspeak so badly that he can’t remember history.
Hubris and audacity helped create the current Las Vegas skyline.
Life after Life magazine, hi-tech house-hunting and elementary students casting ballots fill today’s version of Net Notes.
