Story archive for June 2008
Monday, June 30
- Dodger stars help 51s beat Bees
- Indy Racing League '09 finale may be at LVMS
- County staff wasn't impressed with lobbying firm chosen by commissioners
- Marijuana trafficking suspect arrested in Las Vegas
- Bailey finishes inaugural Transorientale Rally in 29th
- Las Vegas gang member sentenced to life in prison
- Wimbledon Day Seven: Are the Williams sisters headed for a dream final?
- Budget crisis has UNLV slashing staff
- Police seek help in identifying bank robbery suspect
- Gibbons: Officer and Gentleman?
- It’s the Culture We Seek
- 'Drastic' cuts announced at College of Southern Nevada
- Boulder City recall still dead
- Local guitar heroine rocks Air Guitar Championship in Vegas
- Culture for the kids
- AP reports Mount Charleston plane crash victims were from California
- Police describe possible suspect in woman's murder
- Police looking for suspect after finding man shot to death
- Jailed rock singer hauled into court
- Rebels win big, 96-76, in Brisbane
- Day 5: Ma, crocs and the French rugby team
- Extra bulk didn't hurt Pacquiao
- New warming threat
- Revisit old mining law
- She’s earned this promotion
- An easier way to lower gas prices in the U.S.
- People have right to own guns responsibly
- Supreme Court can’t be called liberal now
- McCain must explain health care position
- The national media are having a field day ...
- Haunted by his prison job
- Embracing commercialism
- New class of lightweight division
- When Cubs’ wall-scaling outfielder was ‘Jimmy’ Edmonds
- Late comedian’s friends collect money for trees to honor his memory
- OSHA a no-show at safety session
- Boyd’s bid for new casino site could open door to competitor
- When a gallon of gas is not exactly a gallon
- Union turns a worried eye on construction cranes
- Women's Open becomes Park's place as Gorman grad wins
Sunday, June 29
- Nomar and pals to play in Las Vegas
- UPDATE: Arizona man's body recovered at Lake Mead after diving off cliff
- Pro Poker Players Bet Away From the Table, Too
- UPDATE: Couple watched as plane crashed near Mount Charleston
- Observations from Sunday’s Lenox Industrial Tools 301 at New Hampshire Motor Speedway
- Wimbledon midpoint: Venus Williams edges toward fifth title
- Pacquiao KOs Diaz: round by round
- ‘Glow train’ goes national
- President in a vacuum
- Planning faulted, again
- One half of one percent is too much of ANWR
- Respect for flag is being taught in school
- Gold Butte deserves special designation
- Kudos to Reid for Medicaid funding
- ‘Room 776’ gets raw deal in Sun review
- Brian Greenspun yields the floor to a friend with an opposing view on economic solutions
- Jon Ralston notes, sadly, special session
- Lots of answers, all of them wrong
- It’s always flattering when the national media takes hold . . .
- Debate shifts from war funding
- Gibbons had chance to silence his critics
- ‘Owens Valley is the model of what to expect’
- Same lobbyist for courts, shorter term, more money
Saturday, June 28
- UPDATE - Small plane crash sparks mountainside fire
- Locals leaders urge fix of "broken" construction safety system
- It's George Carlin day on your TV
- Silly Season gives Kurt Busch an opportunity
- Day 4: Bowling, cricket and condolences
- Willis breaks out with 24 points to lead UNLV in Australia
- Looking out for seniors
- Study points to risk
- Computer experts needed
- Pahrump’s bad reputation not deserved
- Supreme Court botched Exxon ruling
- GOP’s approach has been disastrous
- Drilling for our own oil will reduce price
- Lessons in politics from Yogi Berra
- In a news release that bordered on self-parody ...
- Take Five: Manny Pacquiao vs. David Diaz
- More need Medicaid; less money is available
- School Board going live
- The Number
- Proof is in: Career-oriented education works
- The Elevator
- Toxic feud at SEIU’s top ends with resignations
Friday, June 27
- 12 hours later and it's over
- Session takes on partisan edge
- Gamers' prospects looking good on comped-meal tax issue
- State workers rally for 4 percent pay hike
- More information on arrest of county worker
- Boulder's Railhead becomes a buffet -- but just temporarily
- The latest on Gibbons' office reorganization
- The governor's plan is in writing!
- Casino stocks take a bath
- Special session attracts lots of lobbyists
- Wimbledon Day Five: Waiting out the gloom for more fireworks
- Review: Rocky Laporte brings street-smart humor to the Improv
- Gaming industry opposes tax provision
- Domenici: Time to look at temporary nuclear waste storage, recycling
- Governor says he wants to close $150 million loophole
- Federal money for hepatitis C outbreak will have to wait another day
- Top Gibbons aides quitting
- New phone books arrive with Kruger on the cover
- Gibbons: Nothing romantic about my embracing her
- Rutledge leads Rebels with 19 in Aussie victory
- Alaskans sent reeling
- Poverty-linked infections
- Playing favorites
- Wiser driving practices will fatten wallets
- Bigger government not our kind of change
- Veterans group defends disabled vets
- Obama shows what a hypocrite he can be
- Bush’s real legacy is a safer nation
- McCain's Yucca song and dance
- TAKE FIVE: CLINT BLACK
- Pound-for-pound fails to impress
- Unexpected housing slump effect: Church left half-built
- Eclectic mix of events
- HOAs have recourse in lien times
- No-strings stardom
- State takes hit from unpaid markers
- Anti-warming proposals soft on industry
- Emily’s List endorsed Dina Titus
- Bettors drive up price on already favored Pacquiao
- Ron Kantowski sees the possibilities for the South Point arena with former Orleans Arena director Steve Stallworth in the mix
- Home, but for how long?
- Guest blog: Wranglers -- One last round of golf and goodbye
- Calling Godzilla: Rebels lose
Thursday, June 26
- School board approves teachers' contract, including raises
- Gibbons, Buckley disagree on textbook funding
- School board meeting halted for governor's speech
- Carson City drama
- Berkley’s calendar: Party at Clinton’s house, strategy session with Obama
- Budget cut deal near
- TV report: County worker arrested
- Marshals arrest two for selling horses they didn't own
- Wimbledon Day Four: Nadal squeaks by, but Sharapova falls to the fashion police
- State has the money to last until regular session
- Simpson: 'If I was anybody else, I wouldn't be going to court'
- NASCAR Poll Position
- Low expectations for construction safety meeting
- New chief court executive officer
- Judge rules against federal government in Crazy Horse Too case
- UNLV loses Aussie opener, 72-64, to Sutherland
- Day 2: Opera House, Hungry Jacks and nap time
- Transcript of McCain interview
- Addressing low test scores
- A shocking display
- ‘40 Block’ is history
- Businesses must be made to pull their weight
- Faulty intelligence was evident early on
- Special session should test legislators
- Four-day weeks might resolve deficit
- There I was, finishing up my work late Wednesday ...
- Take Five: Brendan Gaughan
- No sparks, but a few smoldering embers between Ensign, Reid
- Need deciding nonprofit funding
- This ‘Room’ should have a ‘Do Not Disturb’ sign
- Metro has suspect in courthouse graffiti case
- Art can be a great excuse to party
- Rebels reloaded and (mostly) ready
- Ruse gets ‘flight risk’ pass to freedom
- 35 years of blood, sweat and tears lead back to Vegas
- Safety has gotten attention — slowly
- Pointed plan for energy
- Boom cycle
- United we stand?
- Don't blurb me, bro
- Peggy Plots Your Planets
- Femmes fatales
- Stripped of their gear
- Bonnie “Prince” Billy
- Kan can cook
- The Offspring
- Nature’s thin screen
- Mongol
- George Michael
- A purr-fect night for music at the KGPA
- Audigier est arrive
- On deck at the pool at Palms Place
- Retreat Redux
- See No Evil
- The Children of Huang Shi
- Wine man walking
- Hercules and Love Affair
- Do not want
- Basketball vs. Barack
- An e-mail chat with Donovan
- Remembering George Carlin
- Dream Zone
- Effortless wit and verve
- Motley Crue
- 6th Street Sazerac
- Boston … post-Delp?!?
- No Escape
- The head trip that is "Mystere"
- Double up on stand-up
- The Help Desk
- Coldplay
- How the Garcia Girls Spent Their Summer
Wednesday, June 25
- Remembering a kid who walked tall, gave it his all
- Personalizing the mixed drink
- SEIU’s top two leaders quit (UPDATED)
- Should NASCAR consider hybrid technology?
- Henderson Police Chief Perkins announces retirement
- Cox Las Vegas adds two more MTV channels
- New mining claims banned in region around Grand Canyon National Park
- Woman sentenced in Medicaid fraud case
- Column in Business Press lifted from AGC newsletter
- Murder charges filed against parents of 4-year-old boy who died after 17 hours in car
- Wimbledon Day Three: Net cord, big upset highlight an unusual day
- McCain assails Obama, Reid, even Jimmy Carter!
- National Guard: Fossett search prolonged by Gibbons (UPDATED)
- Double Down gets its due on 'Today'
- Day 1: Vegemite, thank-yous and a Aussie hello
- Station Casinos announces grand opening of Aliante Station
- *A backstage glimpse of the sexy Fantasy cast at Luxor
- Up in smoke
- Protecting older employees
- Breach of oversight
- Nevada’s smoking law is unfair to taverns
- Obama could appeal to Republicans
- Bush has flagrantly abused his power
- We don’t need federal land for solar plants
- Public workers getting a bad rap
- Call them the 'Suns'
- For family, hearing provides some comfort
- NLV contemplates a safer boulevard
- OSHA oversight in question
- Retired ironworker, federal OSHA chief respond to lawmakers
- How do you stage Vegas?
- The governor's 21-point plan
- Tables ripe for the picking
- Name that musical
- School District freezes hiring, but 791 more teachers needed
- Obama gets first jabs on Vegas’ ‘green’ turf
- George Carlin: "I'm an alpha male on beta blockers"
Tuesday, June 24
- Police arrest two in stabbing case
- Vanishing
- Bring on the matadors -- NBA Summer League schedule announced
- Marshals arrest suspect in Ohio summer school robbery in Las Vegas Valley
- Two new Wildfire casinos to open
- County releases ballot question language, agenda item
- Mayor Goodman gets national honor for supporting the arts
- TV show looks at possibilities of a nuke train accident in Nevada
- CSN offering buyouts to stave off layoffs
- Wimbledon Day Two -- Venus Williams starts her title defense
- Chairman takes aim at Nevada OSHA
- Suspect arrested in beating and robbery of NFL player Javon Walker
- King Tut treasures go to Las Vegas museum
- Boy George's Vegas visit hits visa snag
- Time for new home
- Good move for Medicare ...
- ... on the other hand
- Gas gripes hypocritical in culture of waste
- Our spending power can fight Big Oil
- Bush blew his chance to fix oil problem
- Iraq oil was supposed to pay for the war
- Nevada wilderness needs our protection
- Who’s out of style and whose duds are in
- Typical media cynicism
- Runway Rebels
- Countywide math scores sound alarm
- Next target: UMC
- For Wynn dealers, deal slow to come
- Sparks fly after court Taser demo for children
- Chancellor Rogers’ TV station urges Gibbons to call it quits
- Cleanup gives NLV neighborhood hope for renewal
- Five minutes to save lives
- Misfits’ icon cracked wise
Monday, June 23
- Nevada wildlife officials search for poachers of three antelope
- Federal judge won’t rule on Crazy Horse Too fate until later this week
- Mariners' Riggleman got his start here
- Teachers submit language for ballot question to county
- Sig speaks
- The New Yorker tackles Sheldon Adelson
- Green jobs town hall meeting Tuesday
- Wimbledon: Day One -- Talk of illegal gambling, strawberries and the roof
- Rory Reid & Co. formally throw their support to Obama
- Massanari plays in College World Series for Georgia
- More info about Metro HQ emerging, but still no price tag
- Kruger set to take UNLV hoops Down Under
- Las Vegas Events cancels SCORE Las Vegas Cup IV
- New book highlights Vegas displacement
- Team USA roster announced
- Angel strapped in his Mindfreak season premiere efforts at Lake LV
- Revising admissions
- Chance of a lifetime
- Privacy at risk
- Bush not to blame for bad intelligence
- Pay disabled veterans now, sort it out later
- Texas showed how cuts can go wrong
- Affection for Bush family is outrageous
- As the governor and the meek opposition ...
- Proposal would create chapel handbiller zones
- On college campuses, talk is all about budget cuts
- BLM leaves Reid out of the loop
- Crazy Horse Too sale depends on whether it can open in a week
- Using Phil Steele's guide to pick out a few attractive bets
- Deep local talent pool
- Making up a character
- Is the Thomas & Mack half empty, or half full?
- Kids learn about legislation from a two-way professional
- Is Pahrump pop king’s refuge?
Sunday, June 22
- Big Ten Network finally on the air, too
- The Great Buck Howard
- Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson
- Help Me Eros
- Goliath
- The Wackness
- Observations from Sunday’s Toyota/Save Mart 350 at Infineon Raceway
- Former UNLV swim coach Potts misses Olympic bid
- Cashing In on vintage chips
- Heart failure takes George Carlin, 71 (UPDATED)
- A tragic safety record mars America’s workplaces
- Floodwaters can be used to our advantage
- Ideology not to blame for ills of the world
- ‘Please,’ ‘thank you’ needed more than ever
- How state Democrats are managing to look as bad as Gibbons
- Just read this reaction to the special session being delayed:
- Constitutional rights face tough tests in time of war
- Brian Greenspun reminds lawmakers that talk is cheap
- For the long term, there’s optimism about sports arena
- Where Gibbons, Buckley and Raggio stand, as of today
- Boarders getting rent help from county coffers
- Not this water
Saturday, June 21
- Las Vegas rugby ace and Eagles get drubbed in Chicago
- More than 600 watch Rebels practice for Australia
- And the CineVegas award winners are...
- Choke
- No credit, no problem
- A silver lining
- A pink millipede
- Seven ways to cut School District spending
- Defense of Bush can’t be serious
- Make up your minds, environmentalists
- GOP energy policies more harm than good
- She’s so excited — and she just can’t hide it.
- The Elevator
- Team USA, if we were in charge
- Litigation over Boulder City recall looks likely
- High-rise death mystifies family, officials
- Our change politician?
- Smoking ban not doing all the banning its sponsors hoped
Friday, June 20
- Performing Arts Center group to move downtown
- Obama in Las Vegas on Tuesday
- Primo
- Hospital CEO to lieutenant governor: Are you nuts on tobacco money plan?
- Four children remain in protective custody as investigation of toddler's death continues
- Clark County launches lawn mower exchange to clear the air
- Giant lizard debuts at Shark Reef
- Economic Forum sides with bleaker view of the state budget mess (UPDATED)
- Down to one candidate, Berkley endorses Obama
- Child predator suspect arrested
- Momma’s Man
- Free lectures tonight at Atomic Testing Museum
- Charles Barkley to play in celebrity poker tournament
- Major bucks offered at Frieder's 3-on-3 tourney at Orleans
- Busloads of protesters heading to Carson City (UPDATED)
- Woman connected to Pacman Jones' Vegas fight found dead
- Committing war crimes
- Finding a compromise
- Shedding light on Beijing
- Imperfect is preferable to dangerous
- Veterans treated like second-class citizens
- Health care monopoly asking for trouble
- No criticism is too harsh for Bush team
- Nine questions about special session
- State delaying Medicaid payouts
- Scholarship or not, Rougeau aims to give boost
- Artist’s answers are blowin’ in the wind
- George Michael
- Mussels’ last meal
- Down Under trip also a tryout
- Worker injuries being suppressed, report finds
- MGM Mirage boss actually listening to advice?
- Target still vague as special session looms
- UNLV looking beyond GPAs
Thursday, June 19
- $9 billion later, Yucca gets its day
- World Series tests players' skill - or luck
- Provost: Cuts would devastate UNLV
- A "sir charge" could avert "loosing" COLAs
- Boulder City recall drama not over yet
- Bilodeau twins never barked up wrong Wranglers tree
- Man arrested on domestic violence, arson charges
- Ethics and Business, Part II
- Federal grand jury brings new conspiracy, fraud charges against realtors
- Kucinich still drums for Bush impeachment
- Forecast: World gambling revenue to top $155 billion in 2012
- The Last Mistress
- All Together Now
- Price at the pump to blame for Las Vegas slump?
- Avoiding a nightmare
- Give shareholders a say
- Bush owes disabled veterans an apology
- Our natural heritage
- Constitution doesn’t protect terrorists
- Is import shipping driving up oil prices?
- Solar power, not drilling, the answer
- Domestic oil drilling would cut gas prices
- PBA U.S. senior open
- Adelson money is political baggage
- Not even critics are going to slow this guy down
- Lanni steps down from gaming lobby’s board
- UNLV seeks to light career spark
- Take your pick: Country crooner, ‘Crazy Girls’ or edgy comedy
- Metro Police to pitch new digs
- Crosby, Stills and Nash
- Youth teams’ rival goalie: Fuel costs
- Expensive commuting not holding the charm
- Good news in recent polls
- Too much money, lots of temptation
- Judas Priest
- Erykah Badu
- The Unsung List
- Lil Wayne
- Martha Wainwright
- Waste Not, Want Not
- Pep talk
- Peggy Plots Your Planets
- Emmylou Harris
- Chatting with Gnarls Barkley
- Panic at the Disco
- The man behind Mouse
- Wolf Parade
- Of masks and Packers
- Art and Symbolism
- Above & Beyond
- EPs, tacos and “First Blood”
- The Real World
- Cirque has class
- The Jacko Pack-O?
- Pool Position
- The Promotion
- "O"
- I, Caan
- Dream Zone
- Angrier, inchier than ever
- Country callback
- Crusading for your community
- Before and after: Le Reve
- Stone Temple Pilots
- Ay caramba!
- The Help Desk
- Sex in the City Flight
- More than Skin Deep
- Eight things to know about One Pin Short
- Who are broken spindles?
- Get Smart
- Who ya’ gonna call?
- The Love Guru
Wednesday, June 18
- Assemblywoman questions governor's call for forum, session
- Second arrest made in Ashley Furniture Store slaying
- State treasurer: Money is there to pay bills until 2009
- Tropicana is going, going, not going
- Falcons fencer receives Hal Rothman Award
- MGM MIRAGE Hospitality announces major project in Tianjin, China
- NASCAR Poll Position
- How hot was it? Tuesday's low was a record high
- AG: Titus can raise money for Congress and go to session
- Here a Fertitta, there a Fertitta
- NRA is MIA
- The Cool School
- Titus lands financial help from mother ship
- Fugitive operation arrests 211 in Nevada
- Ex-UNLV guard Lawrence to join Watson at Idaho
- Hank and Mike
- Poaching customers’ names can toast some casino hosts
- Beautiful Losers
- The Juche Idea
- Lost in the Fog
- Reason for murder-suicide still unknown
- Go Go Tales
- A nation’s shame
- Stick up for consumers
- A cruel hoax
- Term limits don’t address influence of money
- Thanks, first family, for service, civility
- Cartoonist’s Russert tribute exemplary
- Domestic drilling no cure for oil prices
- Revive abandoned gaming tax hike
- Irony in Lanni’s proposal
- Vegas courts a magnet for reality TV
- Even practice drawing fans
- Ron Kantowski applauds Tiger Woods’ little-known U.S. Open challenger, but doubts we’ll remember him
- Jesters follow fads, but jokes remain in demand
- Poetic justice doesn’t get much more literal than this
- Unwanted trade: Boarders for group home residents
- Union turns down Imperial maids
- After 50 years, this master still knows what makes America laugh
- “Consensus” is a dirty word
- Modern comedy is his offspring
- Uncowed casino exec sues ex-employer, wins
- Solar plant builders decry freeze
Tuesday, June 17
- Tiger, Rocco pull huge ratings here
- Majority leader to Gibbons: Show us the agenda!
- Yucca may be limping but it gets full funding from a House subcommittee
- Gibbons to sign order for special session
- The payroll tax: Productive, predictable, stable and transparent
- Oakland Raiders wide receiver could be released from Sunrise Hospital today
- Former rock singer arrested in Henderson
- Will Nevada allow gay marriages to boost the economy?
- Great outdoors
- Another opportunity
- Additional openness
- In good faith?
- Americans need to wake up to erosion of rights
- Bush stays in Europe as Midwest suffers
- It makes sense to keep planning for airport
- Voters: Don’t make the same mistake
- Gamblers’ cash provider sees upside
- Judge must apologize to woman he jailed
- Beer brings cheer
- Lanni proposes payroll tax hike
- Las Vegas guitar festival
- Echelon latest Strip construction site to claim life
- Cash for grass program taking steps to entice more businesses
- One way or another, these bands are hot
- Patrolling, protecting made personal
- Two schools of thought
- Mandalay Bay guards vote against union
Monday, June 16
- Golf playoff captivates the newsroom
- Memorial Day
- Finally, Lillian and Dan
- Police ask for help in morning robbery that left Raiders receiver unconcious
- Man accused of hitting eight pedestrians on the Strip
- In the political ad business, let’s not forget Tony Schwartz
- Boulder City recall petitions fall short
- Budget crisis figures get worse
- Governor tells economic prognosticators to meet
- Chabon and Gaiman to headline Vegas Valley Book Fest
- State GOP Chair: Democrats should join call to pull raises
- Titus, getting down to business
- SAGE Commission won't touch education budgets
- Construction worker dies at Strip project
- Hi My Name Is Ryan
- The Black List: Volume One
- Six workers injured in Durango construction accident
- Construction Worker Dies at Echelon (UPDATED)
- Britney runs the Vegas gamut during whirlwind Vegas weekend
- Florida comedian to headline Riviera Comedy Club
- Ex-Kentucky guard Jasper excited to play hoops at UNLV
- Jury: Suen helped Adelson, even if very little
- Michael Jackson encouraged to perform in Vegas
- Porter, Giuliani to split a fundraiser?
- Young Turks win a soccer game worth watching
- Enough mudslinging
- Keep sick soldiers home
- Running out of gas
- Ivanpah airport would threaten desert
- Let Big Oil do its job: Drill and research
- Offshore drilling poses no threat
- ‘Change’ must mean fewer lobbyists
- I cannot help but chuckle at the outrage ...
- Country alive and kickin’ at Dixie’s
- Vick chew toy not so valuable to terrier or Shih Tzu
- Arts District’s big brushes expected to win approval
- UNLV’s new look coming at history’s cost
- Garland’s daughter embraces legend’s legacy
- We’re spending more on gasoline, less on having fun
- World leaders relaxing in the desert?
- A painful roller derby wreck
- Station Casinos honchos hit the jackpot in ’07
Sunday, June 15
- Dark Streets
- South of Heaven
- Deficit
- Visioneers
- ¿Donde Estan Sus Historias?
- Big Heart City
- Wellness
- She Unfolds By Day
- Esikia and U.S. rugby team get crushed in Canada
- Observations from Sunday’s LifeLock 400 at Michigan International Speedway
- Ano Una
- Schoof
- Happy Birthday, Harris Malden
- President loses again
- Equal care for women
- No more sleepy pilots
- Four conservative justices more than enough
- We have enough oil, gas right here
- Circuses violate rights of animals
- Governor’s excuses don’t pass sniff test
- Beef diet has personal, global consequences
- Jon Ralston questions Nevada legislators’ reasons, in this time of financial crisis, for not wanting to legislate
- Audit report won’t tell you much
- Solutions elude state Senate candidate
- Partisan ploys keep political progress at bay
- Brian Greenspun wants legislators to seize the day
- The tragic news that Tim Russert had died Friday …
- The Equation: No water, no growth
- Prosecutors happy to give feds first crack at Rezko
- As troubles mount, Gibbons disengages
Saturday, June 14
- Cocaine Cowboys II: Hustlin' With the Godmother
- Think again: young Vegas rockers on the rise
- Last Cup
- Explicit Ills
- Cochochi
- The End
- Las Vegas comic Don Barnhart makes a splash -- in Canada
- Your name where?
- Without a home
- Seniors taking big hit
- Helping the unemployed
- Bush out of country, woefully out of touch
- Good teachers deserve appreciation
- Blame conservatives for nation’s ills
- It’s not Star Wars, it’s strategic defense
- After what happened this Friday the 13th ...
- Raises could become hot potato
- Prospects for NLV’s downtown looking up
- The Elevator
- The fight for a shot at the gold
- What gets cut?
- Trial to tell whether money was theirs, bank’s
- Vegas TV pioneer, newsman, historian Stoldal retiring
Friday, June 13
- Remembering Russert
- Assemblywomen accuse Gibbons of trying to change the subject
- Las Vegas Philharmonic plays video game music
- Henderson police arrest man for attempted kidnapping
- Luxe Life exclusive: Photo of Roy feeding white tiger cub
- Small crane tips over at CityCenter, injures operator and stops traffic on the Strip
- Man shot by security guard identified
- Arberry upset by governor's call for special legislative session (UPDATED)
- UNLV forward Matt Shaw out for next season with knee injury
- Winning caption for the Kyle Busch caption contest
- Bloggers invade Vegas
- Sneak peak of Siegfried & Roy's furry friends
- Second murder sparks apartment wide attention
- Coverage cap unfair
- Keeping kids safe
- Parks system in peril
- Graffiti is costly to neighborhood, too
- Two can play Republic’s game
- Gibbons in position to do too much harm
- Kids deserve three square meals a day
- Dems have selfish motives for resisting
- Culinary stakes out its own political turf
- Jeff Haney shows why baseball bettors should pay attention to pitchers’ tendencies and how they match up with ballparks
- Free fishing day
- Searching the shadows to promote care
- Never too young to learn
- plz send PR help!!
- Budding ballerinas learn art of concentration in summer classes
- Amid Suburbia, an island of serenity
- “Nevada’s Texter-in-Chief”
- Rush is on to make building sites safer
- Turning away business?
Thursday, June 12
- Novak: Senate has declined under Reid
- Rebels with a Kas
- Less revenue this fiscal year than last!
- Guess who got a text message today
- AG: Hepatitis Probe Findings Startling
- Women in Boxes
- Budget meeting produces no solutions
- Moody's offers glum Vegas outlook
- Lipizzaner Stallions dancing into South Point
- Woman killed in three-car crash is identified
- Musselwhite and Trout headline affordable Cannery lineup
- Rio ushers in virtual entertainment
- Does he have time to work?
- GOP blocks price relief
- Money for inspections
- High-speed train to California a pipe dream
- Vegas is still a top vacation destination
- Republicans don’t look out for little guy
- Reconsider tax pledge, Governor
- Face lift doesn’t alter spirit of old Vegas jazz bar
- Opposition to room tax hike building
- For Vegas, this low average is a good thing
- Musical is tribute to ‘Wizard of Oz’ composer
- Chamber of Commerce embraces school bond
- Governor’s textual misconduct
- Race to name NASCAR event slows to crawl
- At least somebody’s cleaning up in the foreclosure debacle
- Refugees for a day
- If only Rogers had the gov’s cellular line
- CSN swimming upstream in quest for funds
- Porter, Heller vote to extend unemployment benefits
- Bad contracts costing Rebels
- Sweet Home Sedona
- The Orb
- We don't need no education
- Sex Pistols
- Alanis Morissette
- Hulk resmash!
- Amplifying the Senses
- Sound and vision
- Ladytron
- Battle of the Titans
- Oil’s not well
- Just ducky
- Planet B-Boy
- Peggy Plots Your Planets
- Empire update: a "Weekly" exclusive
- Before the Rains
- The Return of "Them!"
- Chelsea on the Rocks
- Silver Jews
- Standard Operating Procedure
- Not quite happening
- They are the champions, my friend
- The heavenly hitter
- How the West was won
- Four questions with "Visioneers" star Zach Galifianakis
- Martini mania
- Bun B
- Bring the Heat
- Guitar Hero
- Dream Zone
- Beauty marks on the "Beast"
- Interstate...hate?
- In the beginning, there was CineVegas
- On the go go
- The Red Head
- The great DJ debate
- Nevada’s gay duh
- The Help Desk
- So what’s the good news?
- Slow and steady
- An Oscar-worthy state
- Taking a stand
Wednesday, June 11
- UPDATED: Fatal accident involves Nevada Highway Patrol Trooper
- Timeline of Gibbons' text messages
- Former Guggenheim managing director at Las Vegas Philharmonic
- Betting odds, props for the U.S. Open
- U.S. Open betting analysis
- Doctors: Gondo can stay home for now
- Clark County schools chief outlines budget crunch possibilities
- Budget cuts can hurt
- Team Adelson accuses county organization of doing bidding of casinos, teachers union
- Kyle Busch to attempt another ‘triple’
- Zap Band, Cherrelle headline Juneteenth Fest in Vegas
- MGM Mirage names Rood to head race and sports books
- Gibbons says hundreds of text messages with Reno woman were not love notes
- Dancing Waters -- in your own backyard!
- NASCAR officials accused of racism, sexism
- Builders pay up for alleged water violations
- Arrest made in Baskin Park shootings (UPDATED)
- The Mayor and Margarita
- Gaming down fourth straight month
- The Clintons’ enemies list: not too exclusive
- EPA orders Sunrise Landfill clean up, again
- Thoughts on the NASCAR coverage by Fox and TNT
- No compromising safety
- ‘Get to work’
- A costly error
- Beware mental health care privatization
- Prepare for attack machine’s next gear
- Leave Star Wars to Hollywood
- Take Gibbons’ phone, please
- Mexican film showcase becomes fixture after positive reception
- UNLV ticket flap may escalate
- No-limit hold ’em continues to be a young man’s fancy
- Think tank: Tough times for Hispanics nationwide
- Quiet on the northern front
- Landfill’s little helper: Sewage sludge ‘cakes’
- Vegas film fest comes of age
- Courts, cops won’t abide in-your-face
- I don’t know if I can take another “I told you so”
- Plan would up transit options for old, disabled
- Teachers convicted of sex crimes still licensed
Tuesday, June 10
- Today’s Capitol Hill grind: Reid recesses the Senate to get some work done
- Divorce Gibbons Style
- Child found dead in SUV identified
- FedOSHA director, in Las Vegas, mum on Strip safety
- Reid efforts add staff diversity
- Chris Luscombe: A shot in the dark hits closer to home
- He must be a jolly good Fellows
- NASCAR Poll Position
- High wind warning issued for Las Vegas Valley
- On Gibbons, the woman, and McCain
- Gibbons uses state cell to text woman
- GOP calling for office volunteers but don’t everyone sign up at once
- Rogers asking former lawmakers to weigh in
- Porter to get extra help from party fundraising
- Coroner identifies child who died in SUV
- Trey gives Phish-heads hope
- Nevada governor's messy divorce is a gossip jackpot
- Worker deaths spur safety debate
- ‘A fool’s errand’
- New life for fast train
- An unprepared FEMA
- Bush-Cheney damage already apparent
- Quash proposal; bring troops home
- I won’t forget your inaction, Washington
- Transit solutions could be copied here
- Long-sought supermarket to make life in West Las Vegas a bit better
- Chamber of Commerce and the $9.5 billion dollar question
- Heating up the diamond
- Ironworkers push feds to restore safety law
- District Court misstates clerk errors, chilling relations
- Casals of comedy doesn’t do jokes
- Charter school on thin ice
- Dreaming a drum and bugle corps on a Vegas scale
Monday, June 9
- UPDATE: 4-year-old found dead in family's SUV
- What have you done for us lately, Janet Jackson?
- Three-alarm fire forces evacuation of Speedway Casino
- It's not too late to help Gondo
- Jim and Dawn turn down the volume
- McCain, wallet in hand, heading to town
- Man who died after shooting police officer is identifed
- Park Service investigating boating accident death on Lake Mohave
- UPDATE: Pedestrian killed in collision identified
- Bedroom communities to suffer?
- Raggio says don't worry, be happy on higher ed
- Nevada Supreme Court refuses to hear appeal of Las Vegas doctor whose license was revoked
- Dawn gets to stay, but has to shut up
- Jobs unveils new iPhone; Apple takes bigger bite of Vegas
- Homicide investigation continues in deaths of man and woman
- Teen shot in Bob Baskins Park identified
- Man accused of sexual assault behind bars
- Expand inspections
- True colors revealed
- Encounters underreported
- Middle East is more trouble than it’s worth
- ‘Trickle down’ theory disproven by 1990s
- Laissez-faire doesn’t work in real world
- Irresponsible drivers must be punished
- Gold Butte deserves federal protection
- Finally someone has dissected the most ridiculous ...
- Donations pour in for school’s poor children
- Tapped, with recall vote a possibility
- Even in Vegas, chain restaurants hold charm
- Vegas quietly removed from consideration
- Duo to see if play’s the thing for Vegas
- Wranglers’ Mr. Everything
- She wants you to 'Find Your Sexy'
- New vows for old wedding chapel
- Ivanpah planning forges ahead
- Who dropped the ball?
Sunday, June 8
- Brown and out at Belmont
- The Giant Pool of Money
- Observations from Sunday’s Pocono 500 at Pocono Raceway
- Dim sum amid Las Vegas’ casinos
- You'd like to think this is the nadir
- Protect the ratepayers
- Gibbons’ skewed priorities
- Bowing to Big Tobacco
- Let’s all pull together, for a better Nevada
- Sun watches out for construction workers
- No reason for valley children to suffer
- Average Joe can no longer afford Vegas
- Jon Ralston imagines what might be said during a private meeting between Jim Rogers and Jim Gibbons
- Now this is a news flash:
- Early supporters of Obama stand to gain
- The indefatigable Harry Reid’s ‘difficult day’
- You don’t have to come in first to win
- Brookings study: Vegas’ poor deserve tax credits
- Hank Greenspun: 'Unbelievable' as fiction, but a true life story
- The Chosen One
- Unions’ pressure on Ross spurred CityCenter walkout
Saturday, June 7
- Sex Pistols shock the Hard Rock: Polite! Professional! PG-13!
- The Cher Effect
- Levitating train from L.A. to Las Vegas gets boost
- It's Dee Dee Day: free Las Vegas concert tonight
- Squelching science
- A major league strikeout
- Red, red wine
- Taxing the ‘rich’ shortchanges the economy
- Obama just the kind of leader we need
- Don’t let spite cloud your judgment
- The political world is simply drenched in cynicism.
- The Elevator
- Having a smoke and playing, too
- UNLV sports coping with cuts
- State GOP recruits strong field of hopefuls
- Student rallies UNLV peers against budget cuts via Web
- Amid budget cuts, UNLV pronounces its CSI program dead
Friday, June 6
- Celebrity 2008: "Cher is always there"
- Bicyclist killed was a teacher
- Gibbons announces a Yucca summit before inviting the participants
- The Rock tees off -- toward CityCenter
- Floyd Mayweather Jr. announces retirement
- Brace yourself, here come the ads
- Steve Sisolak says DA was arbitrary and capricious
- New Sedaris for your eyes and ears; visits Vegas in 2009!
- Girl from Amber Alert found safe
- Beatles-fest bound for Vegas
- Fun-size Sex Pistols: Collect 'em! Trade 'em!
- Nuclear company says Yucca Mountain safety plan is a 'fool's errand'
- UPDATE: "Sweeney Todd" lives in Las Vegas!
- Reid endorses Obama
- Ripe for problems
- Tone-deaf economic policy
- Nuclear problems
- Is U.S. involvement in Iraq justified?
- If your candidate lost, stand by values
- Clinton fails to show class in defeat
- Government can’t be ‘parent’ to the poor
- 10 reasons Nevada could go blue
- Ensign fielding lackluster lineup
- Take Five: Triathlete Andy Potts
- Most profitable period for putting down a Triple Crown bet might have elapsed
- Federal OSHA coming to CityCenter
- Sex Pistols in the City
- Lawsuit: Rizzolo is hiding millions
- Bill Raggio still has it
- Bringing a taste of Vegas to Dubai
- Philharmonic concert is UNLV’s birthday gift to community
- Aryan Warriors threaten violence
- Developers: With slump and all, just writing to say we’re OK
- Composed former Sun city editor
Thursday, June 5
- Cyclones defeat Wranglers, 3-1, to win ECHL Kelly Cup
- Murder suspect arrested after yearlong murder investigation
- Nevada asks for federal help to review CityCenter safety
- UPDATE: Suspicious suitcase stops traffic at Nellis and Desert Inn
- Gibbons reappoints two river commissioners
- Paris and her Benji — inseparable
- Bicyclist struck, killed on Durango Drive
- Poll indicates support for protection of Gold Butte
- AG to gov: caveat emptor on lieutenant governor's budget fix plan
- UPDATE: Suspect in Hummer standoff dead
- Source of hepatitis C at second clinic remains unknown
- Standing up for safety
- An untenable situation
- Why aren’t Bush’s lies being investigated?
- War veterans deserve better treatment
- Congress must take action in oil crisis
- Republicans stall climate change bill to punish Reid
- Big-picture thinkers weigh in on gaming’s fiscal outlook
- NBA legends return to betting boards for Lakers-Celtics series
- Much ado about prime-time MMA
- Initiative petition nonsense
- Sculpture entrenched in earth
- Orlando spikes Vegas rivalry with humor
- Support hinges on healing
- Scientist: Warming bodes ill for water
- County grumbles but OK’s $3.2 million court overruns
- Gavin Rosdale
- Record time
- Homemade Charm
- Usher
- Jessica Snook
- Jewel
- My Morning Jacket
- Middle East melange
- You Don’t Mess With the Zohan
- Weezer
- Nice piece of glass
- Book ’em, Roxy
- Strip it good
- From across the world, right next door
- Chefs to watch
- Peggy Plots Your Planets
- Rev-ving up
- Nervous Nitelife, chicks with decks and a battle royale
- From TV to Vegas
- Oh, Shoot!
- Desert Divide
- Bra Boys
- Fight Plan
- Must-see reform
- Dream Zone
- Take the Gibbons test
- Kung Fu Panda
- Terms of endearment
- Let there be light
- Anarchy in the LV
- Film fanatic
- I want to be a star
- Mansinthe
- Now we're cooking
- Sex and the suburbs
- The Manilow Principle
- The Help Desk
- Custard's last stand
- 6.66 reasons to see “virtual” metal band Dethklok
- The simple life of Rita Rudner
- Eat like a top chef
Wednesday, June 4
- Vets' health bill passes Senate
- Nevada AG challenges Yucca Mountain application
- Jon Porter has a new neighbor — Reid’s son
- Rio dealers seek union election
- Consultants: No second term for Gibbons
- Rain, winds spread over Valley (UPDATED)
- Reid calls $4 gas 'deeply disturbing'
- Citizen Outreach ranks legislators on their conservative bona fides
- MGM Mirage says strike will not delay project
- Secretary of state denies Adelson petitions appeal
- The Mtn. finally to beam onto satellite in August (UPDATED)
- Boulder City recall petitions submitted
- Man burned in downtown fire dies
- Man found dead in Desert Inn apartment is identified
- Vegas to see 12% cutback in flights
- Reid: Race is over
- Australia's Crown scraps Las Vegas casino project
- Mission impossible
- A shortsighted proposal
- Outrageous e-mails
- Bush betrayed U.S. out of self-interest
- Worst president in the modern era
- Water series is timely, informative
- Lack of procedure in picking lobbyist
- ‘Green wave’ aims to sweep Hispanics into cause
- Comedian piles on the insults for his shows at Hooters
- He’s a star, if inconspicuous
- Moving in different directions
- Strip carousers hear picketers’ grievances
- Benefit busts of the burlesque
- Troubles are approaching critical mass
- State mulls mental health fix: Privatizing
- Perini pledges to boost training, assess site safety
- Back and forth on Yucca dump
Tuesday, June 3
- Are they real NASCAR fans?
- Obama closes in on nomination
- A tale of two resorts
- Man critically burned in downtown fire
- Gusty winds bring high fire danger, dust advisory
- Adelson front men appeal SOS ruling
- Chancellor asks the governor for a budget sit-down
- AG tries to get term limits to high court
- Hey, Jim, let's meet!
- A Florida fundraiser that offers a cut to Nevada
- Ensign to McCain: Take a risk on Veep choice
- Commissioners delay action on possible garbage fee hike
- Safety agreement ends walkout on Strip
- Clark County hires lobbyist
- Standoff ends with suspect charged
- Reid on brink of announcing his presidential pick
- Feds celebrate long-stalled Yucca Mountain application with souvenir medallions
- CityCenter workers still off the job; more talks this afternoon
- Clinton update: Campaign official denies report she will concede
- A matter of time
- Bogus credentials
- Honoring history, sacrifice
- We can’t let a few keep bearing burden alone
- Pundits, don’t shoot messenger McClellan
- Furniture stores made their bed ...
- Hauler’s plea for rate increase gets second look
- Gibbons weighs selling tobacco payments to plug budget gaps
- An attack unanswered is an attack accepted
- DJs’ ride up peaks in Vegas
- Lawyers argue over whether Desai waived right to silence
- Workers walk off CityCenter site in protest
- To one man, Bellagio’s waters beckoned
- School goes all out to help poor kids learn
- Undaunted by early losses, Raymer counts on skill
Monday, June 2
- A 4-0 loss leaves Wranglers with 3-2 title-series deficit
- BREAKING: Construction workers to walk off CityCenter site
- Unions threaten CityCenter walkout over safety
- Senate opens debate on global warming, but discussion may cool off
- Churchill County DA defies AG
- Wind blows in pollution advisory
- Feds: Yucca Mountain application is ready
- Man shot, killed during confrontation in apartment parking lot
- Metro Police investigate deaths as double homicide
- What did governor, lawmakers know about med board and when did they know it?
- Med board chief sends strong response to governor, lawmakers
- Man drowns at Lake Mead
- Ethics and Business
- Tragedy in the ranks
- Easy being green?
- Blind to the future
- Excuses for opposing new GI Bill don’t hold up
- Iraq war justifies criticism of Bush
- Teachers pay price for no taxes pledge
- Now that Regent Steve Sisolak is involved...
- No pro titles for Vegas since 1988? You’re forgetting the Dustdevils
- Ron Kantowski explains why hockey skipped the weekend
- Rulffes frustrated too, but expresses it in a different way
- Degrees were fake, but good enough
- Slowdown not sparing many Vegas locales
- Own a business? Be vigilant, thieves are lurking
- Action theater by design
- Wranglers feeling the pressure
Sunday, June 1
- Crowded house at the Orleans
- Las Vegas' B.J. Baldwin wins SCORE Baja 500
- Observations from Sunday’s NASCAR Best Buy 400 at Dover International Speedway
- 'Gibbons Country' wavers
- Obama picks up Nevada superdelegate
- As ye sow ...
- Don’t give up now
- Conservation, at last
- On Iraq, people must speak truth to power
- Why price of gas is greatly tied to greed
- Obama should have been vetted sooner
- Jon Ralston says Gibbons v. Nevada makes divorce look like a walk in the park
- Satiating a booming city
- Yucca license application is next round in 20-year battle
- To win in Nevada, both have work to do
- Recall petitioners have enough signers, they say
- Group backed by Adelson picks Berkley as a target
- Brian Greenspun says it’s time for those who care about the future to take a stand
- So let me get this straight: After months of the drama...
- Still spending, still no guidelines