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Henderson Municipal Court Judge Department 1 election set for June 4
Incumbent Henderson Municipal Court Judge Mark Stevens, left, presents Warner Smith with a certificate of achievement at the court, 243 Water St., March 22 as part of the Veterans Court program. Stevens received 41.88 percent of the votes in the April primary election and his challenger, Sandra Allred DiGiacomo, received 40.75 ...
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Cowboy out Silver Sevens on the way
Construction crews with Federal Heath Sign Company take down the cowboy sign at Terrible's Hotel & Casino on Paradise Road Monday in preparation for the hotel-casino's transition to its new name, the Silver Sevens Hotel & Casino. The neon sign will be donated to the Neon Museum in downtown Las ...
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Desai was frugal but didnt risk patient safety clinic doctor testifies
A second gastroenterologist who worked closely with Dr. Dipak Desai testified Monday that Desai operated his endoscopy clinics in a frugal manner but did not put patients' safety at risk. Dr. Vishvinder Sharma performed colonoscopies and upper endoscopies at Desai's clinics between 1994 and 2008, when the facilities closed following a hepatitis C outbreak that contaminated seven ...
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Las Vegas officer in shooting identified
Las Vegas police investigators collect evidence Thursday after an officer-involved shooting in a parking lot near East Charleston Boulevard and Bruce Street. Police officer Michael Donovan shot and wounded a man police say was brandishing a pellet ...
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Full-day kindergarten garners support not funding from lawmakers
CARSON CITY-- Senate Finance Committee members backed a bill Monday that would require full-day kindergarten in all Nevada elementary schools, but removed a requirement to provide state funds to carry out that mandate. Their support for Senate Bill 182 caused one lobbyist, John Wagner of the Independent American Party, to question what lawmakers were doing. He noted it would cost $90 million to ...
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Publicist Founding member of The Doors dies at 74
Publicist Heidi Robinson-Fitzgerald says Manzarek died Monday at the RoMed Clinic in Rosenheim, Germany, surrounded by his family. Robinson-Fitzgerald says his manager, Tom Vitorino, confirmed Manzarek died around 3:30 p.m. EDT. He had bile duct ...
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Watertown businessmen purchase Las Vegas e-commerce firm
The purchase of WebHost XTC will help three Watertown business executives offer more e-commerce capabilities to customers of their respective companies. Three Watertown business owners have purchased a Las Vegas-based commerce hosting company and plan to add jobs locally, according to a Monday press release. Paul Dickey, owner of Accurate Pool & Spa Services in Watertown, along with Brian ...
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UNLV announces former bowl director as interim athletic director
Tina Kunzer-Murphy will be the interim athletic director at UNLV, it was announced Monday, May 20, 2013. Last year Kunzer-Murphy stepped down after a 12-year run as executive director of the Las Vegas ...
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BREAKING NEWS Woman Appointed as Interim Athletic Director for UNLV
LAS VEGAS -- Tina Kunzer-Murphy has been appointed as the interim athletic director for UNLV. "Tina Kunzer-Murphy has agreed to step into the role of interim athletic director on the heels of Jim ...
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Arias trial wraps for day continues Tuesday
FILE - Jodi Arias cries as Steven Alexander, brother of murder victim Travis Alexander, makes his "victim impact statement" to the jury in this Thursday, May 16, 2013 file photo, during the penalty phase of the Jodi Arias trial at Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix. Arias returns to court Monday May 20, 2013 for the continuation of her trial after being convicted of murder in ...
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Suspect in iPad robbery death tried to hide evidence police say
Marcos Arenas, 15, was run over Thursday when robbers tried to take his iPad as he walked near Charleston Boulevard and Torrey Pines Drive. He later died of his ...
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Las Vegas man killed in explosion near Nellis Air Force Base identified
A man killed in an explosion near Nellis Air Force Base Friday morning has been identified by the Clark County coroner's office. Gregory Kent Wong, 51, from Las Vegas, was an employee of Nevada Truck and Trailer Repair, where the explosion and fire happened. Wong died from blunt force trauma to the head and other contributing causes, including explosive fire injury and first- and second- ...
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Los Angeles goes after Vegas hospital for dumping 1500 patients
USA The city of Los Angeles is pursuing a criminal investigation of a psychiatric hospital in Las Vegas, which has allegedly put 1,500 patients on buses and sent them out of state over the past five years. About one third of these patients, some of which were homeless, were given one-way bus tickets to cities in California. About 200 of the 1,500 mentally ill patients were sent to Los Angeles ...
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Three killed in I-15 head-on crash identified
Three people killed in a head-on crash on Interstate 15 near the Las Vegas Motor Speedway Sunday morning have been identified by the Clark County coroner's office. Aldo Diaz-Nafra, 20, of Las Vegas, was driving an Acura Legend northbound in the southbound lanes about 4:30 a.m. when he crashed into a southbound GMC Yukon driven by Ashutosh Jain, 28, of Beaumont, Texas, according to Nevada ...
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Las Vegas sees rise in suburban poverty
It's seen every day throughout Las Vegas. Now it's creeping into the suburbs. Poverty. The Las Vegas metropolitan area was ranked among the 100 largest in the nation for levels of suburban poverty, according to data released today by the Washington, D.C.-based Brookings Institution. "We see it every day," said Brian Burton, president and chief executive officer at the ...
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2 dead 20 injured after explosions in Dagestan- Wave of violent attacks kills at least 86 in Iraq
MAKHACHKALA, Russia – Two people are dead and at least 20 are injured after two car bombs exploded Monday in Dagestan, in Russia's North Caucasus region, where armed militias are leading an Islamist insurgency. Both blasts were near the headquarters of the court bailiffs and appeared to have been detonated by remote control, a Russian state agency told Reuters. Police cordoned ...
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Tornadoes slam Plains Midwest one dead in Oklahoma
SHAWNEE, Okla. -- Hearing on the radio that a violent storm was approaching her rural Oklahoma neighborhood, Lindsay Carter took advantage of the advanced warning, gathered her belongings and fled. When she returned, there was little left of the community she called home. Several tornadoes struck parts of the nation's midsection Sunday, concentrating damage in central Oklahoma and Wichita, ...
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Veer Towers showcase Nevada spirit
The Veer Towers represent Nevada’s contribution to the world of modern design and architecture and a trend that has emerged out of places like Dubai to push the boundaries of construction.
Nevada’s skyline or the skyline of Las Vegas at least, has more in common with the skylines of Dubai or Macau than the rest of the United States. The gleaming modern casinos and skyscrapers, the glittering lights of The Strip, the flashing neon signs of various hotel-casino resorts, these are the quintessential images of the city and they’re the perceptions that market the state throughout the US and indeed the world. The newly developed Veer Towers are no different, although their design certainly is. Read more
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