Story archive for May 2008
Saturday, May 31
- Return of Chris Ferraro boosts Wranglers in ECHL Kelly Cup Finals
- Man arrested for shooting father in Las Vegas park
- Man killed in overnight traffic accident
- Protecting ancient heritage
- Summer at home?
- Give ethanol a chance
- Lower gas prices, not our standard of living
- Constant criticism of Bush is unfair
- McCain’s goals in Iraq are unrealistic
- Agencies’ good intentions, poor finances
- Rebels have to wait till next year
- State OSHA boosts work site safety
- The Elevator: Nevada Sports Hall of Fame edition
- To collar costs, Las Vegas will put its eight dogs out of work
- Economic chill freezes Vegas budget
- Hey, neighbor, try our hotel
- Signs of imminent death
- Women score team’s best-ever NCAA finish
Friday, May 30
- Big night all around as Wranglers tie title series, 2-2, with Cincy
- SOS says Adelson petitions not certified
- A gambler knows when to hedge his bets
- Nevada to be part of solar study
- The truth hurts
- Smog begone
- The buzz over Mars
- We can’t drill ourselves out of this rut
- McCain, not Obama, is weak on Iraq war
- Obama didn’t buy Bush’s propaganda
- When will Jim Gibbons be set adrift
- Track manager: Smith mum on second Cup race
- Ron Kantowski watches the consonants fly, and miss, at a spelling bee of sports names
- When Vegas tenors perform Sunday, original member won’t be singing along
- Political activism amid bacchanalia
- Rogers boils over
- Casino plan may survive arena’s death
- Places threatened by the times
- Contract for wood could fire up dormant power plant
- Rezko hires attorney in attempt to stifle warrant
- The power of Sun City
- Energy, budget on Gibbons' mind despite divorce distraction
- Jeff Haney discovers the ‘Big Three’ prop, an attractive bet for gamblers who think one of the favored teams in the NFL or college football will win the title
Thursday, May 29
- Cyclones take 2-1 title series lead on Wranglers
- Braxton's not coming back to Flamingo
- Along comes (a scholarship to) Mary
- Gibbons denies wife's claims of an affair
- Titus: Gas prices are too high
- UNLV's Han selected to PING All-Pacific Region team
- Chancellor warns of dark higher ed days ahead
- Elko editor - Sacrificial Lamb?
- Vegas Valley Book Festival #7 still on the books
- Jazz musician Dick Fazio hospitalized after stroke
- UNLV's Scruggs named to Louisville Slugger All-American team
- When Harry met Pamela
- Online charter high school workshops
- Nuke industry questions McCain’s notion of an international nuclear waste dump site
- Betting on the Bee
- Man injured in hit-and-run accident
- California Family Sues the Las Vegas Sands, LLC, Venetian Casino Resort, LLC, and Manpower, Inc. over stolen moving truck
- Welcome to Mt. Doom
- Deep Impact?
- Wranglers brass hopes for big crowds in Kelly Cup Finals
- Political cover for McCain
- Closing a racial divide
- Child obesity plateaus
- Don’t trust war’s backers on Iraq withdrawal
- ‘Carry-on’ charges make more sense
- Iraq exit strategy was nonexistent
- There’s still time to punish Bush
- Ron Kantowski says Las Vegans can’t let soda-drinking Cincinnatians show them up on the ice, or at the turnstile
- Latino tribute show debuts
- Fundraiser faces arrest in multiple gaming debts
- Playoff excitement building
- Flash! Stealing electricity is risky business
- With the dirt flying, party backing away
- Fifth Street School soon to brim with students of the arts
- Drama of Wright’s comedy is all about the understatement
- Term limits issue still unresolved
- Feeling pain at the pump, agencies downsize, scale back
- Death becomes her
- Here's the beef! Dixie's herds 'em in for the grand opening weekend
- From the Gulch to Ghostbar
- Crazy eight might be in Britney’s Las Vegas plans
- Of maggots and men
- Small Wonder
- Cyndi Lauper
- Al Green
- In Search of Harry
- Disturbed
- Perez is Burning
- Spiritualized
- Show them the money
- 300 Dresses
- Too plain, too simple
- A fashionable finale
- Throw the Black Book at 'em
- In the public eye
- Fall of the Empire ... Ballroom
- The Help Desk
- Outside in
- Bella Bistro
- Mudhoney
- The Exies
- Dream Zone
- Chatting with non-partisan comedian Steven Wright
- The Strangers
- Four questions with Shooter Jennings
- Peggy Plots Your Planets
- Red Bull Cola
- Las Vegas' carbon footprint surprisingly small
- What’s in a slogan?
- The Fall
- The truth...is in Rachel?
- The Police with Elvis Costello
Wednesday, May 28
- Clark County Democratic Party ED resigns
- Robin Leach reporting sale of Cosmopolitan
- White tent serves as Mariott gambling hall
- Stallworth: "Ready for a change"
- No trace of prison babies
- UPDATED: "Sex and" Sin City
- Guest blog: A day with the Wranglers
- Dawn Gibbons' lawyer files divorce documents
- Atkinson Gates to have hand in DNC decision that could settle Obama-Clinton race
- Health care cynicism
- Gaps in port security
- Ditch a bad rule
- Anti-drilling arguments ignore reality
- One way to keep
- Don’t dismiss young supporters of Obama
- Prison loaf should be the norm for inmates
- McCain’s about-face on Yucca
- School choice program sparks interest, if moderate
- Creepiest crime fighters
- Obama targets home issues in Vegas visit
- Subsidized apartments could change hands
- A cage match, literary style
- For hotel deals, shop around
- Pssssssst! Cut-rate rooms in classy Vegas
- Jeff Haney discovers razz isn’t a ‘miserable’ poker game, and finds an expert who says it can be the best way for many players to consistently make money
- WAR. What is he good for?
- Term limits a simple concept, a nightmare issue
Tuesday, May 27
- Stallworth leaving Orleans Arena
- Nevada leaders rally residents against Yucca Mountain
- Don King and Emeril Lagasse get spot in Gaming Hall of Fame
- Special Las Vegas edition of Sports Illustrated hits newsstands
- "Madness" to overtake Las Vegas
- Medical Mafia?
- Sister's story about 'Leaving Las Vegas' author John O'Brien
- Buffalo Jim death ruled accidental; cocaine contributed to death
- SOS to Adelson petitioners: Your affidavits are no good
- At Hilton, the Wranglers are next to the Red Wings on the big board
- McCain: Maybe we don’t need Yucca
- Obama's in town, and the housing crisis is on his lips
- DA says Woodbury & Co. can run
- Lives are at stake
- Erase doubt about ‘Bodies’
- Joe Camel meets academia
- Illegals’ economic contribution immaterial
- Iraq policy holds cure for our energy crisis
- Obama’s backers are patriotic, not naive
- Clinton’s just hinting she wants No. 2 post
- Pundits go overboard on Clinton remark
- Gov. Jim Gibbons is not just getting brickbats ...
- COACHING STALWARTS
- Teens report safer schools, but riskier driving
- Plans burgeon for hot Henderson corner
- Poll finds ill feelings on health care
- Man, woman, nurse, engineer
- Long-term goal for UNLV: Raise graduation rate
- Underground gallery
- Why high school coaches are quitting
- Clean Crue member
Monday, May 26
- People who drive fast cars shouldn't throw stones ... or stomp down the pit lane
- Observations from Saturday night’s NASCAR Coca-Cola 600 at Lowe’s Motor Speedway
- Remembering the troops
- Hold the mayo on that
- Audits are not insults
- American know-how could fix energy crisis
- Illegal immigrants drain economy
- Library Friends treated poorly
- Obama is the lobbyists’ puppet
- Barkley’s gambling debt makes you wonder ...
- Dems target Adelson’s politicking
- Mortgage fraud worse in nearby states
- Vegas vet’s death spurs VA reform legislation
- Bon appetit!
- Fighters relish throwing their weight around
- Local firm backs John Andretti at Indy
Sunday, May 25
- Miller gives Wranglers 1-0 victory, knots title series with Cincy at 1-1
- Father of the dump
- Consumers must take charge
- New energy policy should be top priority
- What makes Clinton so experienced?
- Young Obama backers show their naivete
- Sex handbills sully image of Las Vegas
- Conservative rise: It came from the ’60s
- Jim Gibbons reaps public embarrassment through private sowing
- And you thought no one outside of Nevada ...
- In varied Vegas, two buildings spark architectural debate
- Teachers show how to break through
- Groups that help needy finding the need is great
- Brian Greenspun laments the loss of some of Nevada’s best public officials as a foreseeable result of term limits
- UMC painter blew whistle in ’05
- Their plans to cope with budget squeeze
- Kennedy among gallant fighters
- Get the room tax increase enacted now, senator urges
Saturday, May 24
- Cincinnati takes 1-0 lead over Wranglers in Kelly Cup Finals
- Tonight's racing at The Bullring canceled
- Schmidt's driver misses out on Indy Lights victory
- Contamination for sale
- Teens lag on seat-belt use
- A promise made ...
- Other countries ahead of U.S. in energy race
- Candidates’ wives not immune to criticism
- On the president, golf and freedom
- Budgeting: County heeds, state bleeds
- Ultimate Fighting Championship 84, ‘Ill Will’
- Pacman pays debts; case to be dropped
- Bridge over troubled water
- Vegas' White House hope
- The Elevator
Friday, May 23
- Legislature finally approves Gibbons' budget cuts (UPDATED)
- Seale asks governments to show him the money
- Stratosphere pays off disputed sports bet
- Sexual assault suspect arrested in California
- Ralston or O’Reilly?
- Two young Democrats know how to rake in bucks
- Noose in Boulder City classroom
- Weather service warns motorists traveling to Mount Charelston
- Washoe DA disagrees with SOS on term limits
- Pacman pays debt; D.A. dropping criminal case
- Cool weather, showers open Memorial Day weekend; chance of showers throughout weekend
- A show down on the Strip
- UNLV's Buddy system to end?
- "Love" goes on at Cinevegas 10
- What could "Humpy" Wheeler bring to NASCAR?
- Emergency budget meeting convenes
- Mayors make wager over hockey tourney
- Henderson's Schmidt places four cars in Indy Lights race
- A new push for oil
- Torture and the FBI
- Patients deserve to know
- Superdelegates belie principle of equality
- Obama’s youthful backers are naive
- Shining example of energy independence
- The shrapnel flying over term limits
- Takin’ it to the (Alabama) turf
- Report: Illegal immigrants contribute billions to state
- Jeff Haney finds strong evidence the disgraced former NBA ref ensnared in a betting scandal was exerting major influence over games he officiated
- Ensign sticks to principle on money for GI Bill, health scare
- Gambling debt chases Pacman Jones
- The initiative process in Nevada is a mess
- What's private, in public
- Lenders give Herbst Gaming more time to repay debts
- NLV apartment plan yanked after neighbors’ protest
- Fall-safety requirement may get OSHA enforcement
Thursday, May 22
- LVCVA responds to Adelson's response on petitions
- Memorial Day weekend, Venetian style
- From First to Last
- Foxy Brown
- Old 97's
- 3 Doors Down
- Scarlett Johansson
- Potosi fire 90 percent contained, but firefighters wary of wind
- Work out those daddy issues
- Filching the Funny
- Blue Rodeo
- ‘Free’ for All
- White Rabbits
- USA basketball training camps announced
- Bayou 'cue
- Lake Mead Marina fire causes $1 million damages
- Woman found dead in motel room
- Woodbury: Blindsided by Miller
- Barkley's (alleged) Rockets garment bag gets new owner
- Try Again
- Dust off that trophy shelf, Celine!
- My brother is an only child
- Then she found me
- Love Downtown!
- It's not the years, it's the mileage
- No country for bad filmmaking?
- Adelson's attorney argues petition requirements unconstituional
- Crimes and misdemeanors
- Las Vegas closer to getting a second NASCAR Cup race?
- Mayor Goodman makes Wranglers wager for Ohio River
- UFC exposure makes Las Vegas band Hard 8 a good bet to hit it big
- Hostel Environment
- Making an odd first impression
- Memorial Day brings house-heads and headliners
- A failed approach
- Wildfire season upon us
- The hardest word
- Increase fuel efficiency and domestic supply
- Speak up if you see improper flag display
- Put an end to sex handbillers on Strip
- Educate students for life after school
- Glorified jock posters or art, project pretty cool
- The price for fighting: Schools may owe millions
- The art in UFC’s violence
- Library District has fallout with its Friends
- Ron Kantowski says high-sticking in June is just weird, but Wranglers will take it
- Despite cheap shot, ECHL no goon league, former chief says
- Wilderness road upgrade has to wait
- Barkley settles up with DA
- Uncertainty surrounding term limits
- What could be less Vegas?
- Slots quiet as Macau observes 3 minutes of silence
- Why stores still sprout in valley
- Paul supporter offers to pay for state GOP convention
- Peggy Plots Your Planets
- Ranking is Rank
- Porn free
- Sex and This City
- Speedy delivery
- The Help Desk
- Pimp My Puppet
- Dream Zone
- The little (soon-to-be-big) college that could
- Tourment Trance Moon Nightclub $12
- Nightlife Value Menu
Wednesday, May 21
- Ivanpah airport opening further delayed to 2018 or later
- Ivanpah airport opening further delayed to 2018 or later
- And now let's play The Price is Right!
- Correcting an Institution
- Wranglers send-off slated for Thursday morning at 11
- Band-aid beats amputation
- Police name suspect in sexual assault, robbery, kidnapping
- Winds bring dust, cooler temperatures
- Prosecutors closing the case against Charles Barkley
- Fire closes Route 160 between Vegas, Pahrump (UPDATED)
- Blown away at the luau
- Three schools dismiss students due to power outage
- U.S. Olympic basketball heads to Las Vegas
- An initiative mess
- It’s really elementary
- Politics and clean air
- Yucca Mountain unknowns will sink project
- Nuke threat most effective deterrent
- Voters responsible for energy crisis
- Obama-Edwards team unbeatable
- Teachers-gaming deal substituting for policy
- Jeff Haney, at an IRS seminar, explores the debate over expanding legal sports betting
- Nevada again will be presidential battleground, pundits say
- Leave the wild burro be
- Chapel owners say ordinance is a win-lose
- Mencia says: If you don’t like me, don’t come to my shows
- Wynn says he was obligated to try to recoup debt
- Cher and Cher-alike
- Track suffers when big boys are on TV
- Yucca father changes his tune
- No neighbors, no neighborhood
- The best plan often goes awry
Tuesday, May 20
- Wranglers prepping for first ECHL Kelly Cup Finals
- UNLV hoops trip Down Under nets $72,000 in golf tourney
- Sketches and thoughts on Saturday's NASCAR All-Star race
- Assemblywoman Francis Allen arrested
- Is this political?
- In Vegas, are we what we Netflix?
- Worker killed at downtown construction site is identified
- Climb Into Tomorrow's Slot Machine
- LVCVA, unions challenge validity of Adelson petitions
- Missing boy found in California
- Chipping away at safety
- GIs have earned this
- Expand mental health aid
- It’s time to begin reducing oil dependence
- Human qualities
- Real losers in energy crisis are Americans
- If Clinton loses, Obama our best bet
- Eastern import catching on
- Taxi regulator fought for, got, cameras in area cabs
- SEIU disputes outcome of nurses’ vote, gaining time
- The winners and losers
- Henderson museum plans taking shape
- Songwriter, singer finds the right mix for his life
- Foreclosure fallout
- Teachers give up gaming tax bid in deal
- Barkley says he’s repaid debt; DA hasn’t seen check
- Strip’s vaunted condo-hotels losing their luster
- Doctor driven to start clinic for the uninsured
Monday, May 19
- Another record-breaking day, then cooler weather
- NJ senator fights for legalized sports betting
- Joining the 100-degree club
- Why the SOS challenged candidates on term limits
- Whose term is it anyhow?
- Initiative petition signatures submitted (UPDATED)
- Construction worker dies in downtown accident
- Cut the Greenwash!
- Wranglers vs. Cyclones
- Record breaking temperature sends Las Vegas into summer heat wave
- A conflicted court
- Oil trumps food
- Fighting Alzheimer’s
- GOP oil men responsible for energy crisis
- Campaigns take focus away from Iraq
- Democrats insecure about security issue
- Let’s try rationing, and not just of gas
- The feds have all but sanctioned it ...
- Just what sports needs: More Triple Crowns
- Well-prepared students quiz governor’s staff chief
- Technically, they’re a success
- More commuters taking bus route
- This magician’s also a card
- Gas ‘peakers’ set to kick in when weather sizzles
- Inspiration of Dusty Springfield helps land a gig in Vegas
- Post-9/11 cuts may have gone too far
- Organizer’s tactics test limits, even for workers
Sunday, May 18
- Are Republicans Drilling for Defeat?
- Las Vegas economy looks like busted flush
- Nevada historic preservation recognized
- Observations from Saturday night’s NASCAR Sprint All-Star race at Lowe’s Motor Speedway
- A deal is a deal
- Working against consumers
- We should do better
- Changing our lifestyle will change gas prices
- Bush’s legacy will be one of failure
- You can’t equate gas prices to Europe’s
- The art of entrepreneurship
- A Nevada primer for Campaign ’08 races and beyond
- There was much speculation late Friday ...
- Frustration, anger among Republicans growing
- Brian Greenspun gives his mom the second-best gift ever
- Standoff over landfill closure possible
- Calls for unity draw different answers from Clinton voters
- No stopping history for tourists
- Project required collaboration, old-fashioned digging
- How Vegas became a city like no other
- License plates can help save history
- Interpreting protections away
- Looking into the nuclear abyss
Saturday, May 17
- Report assesses blame in hepatitis C cases
- Obama comes out winner in Nevada
- Charles Barkley Owes Wynn Las Vegas $400,000
- Listing in name only?
- Sparking interest in science
- Maestro or machine?
- ‘Party planning’ is the new basket weaving
- The more energy solutions the merrier
- Crack down on those not paying taxes
- You have to marvel at Mayor Oscar Goodman’s ability to ...
- Seven-time driver at Indy will see it on TV this year
- Happier days for Democrats
- Fire settles casino’s fate for good
- Suspended judge can’t even get out of jury duty
- UNLV building project has shot at funding, even in budget crunch
- The Elevator: UNLV edition
Friday, May 16
- Drink up a deal with a free margarita at lunch at the South Point
- CityCenter will not all open at once after all
- Boyd may build casino in Henderson
- If Woodbury can't run, others stand ready
- Sequoia Holmes makes Houston roster in WNBA
- Woodbury re-election bid faces legal challenge (UPDATED)
- Wayniac alert! Wayne Newton to play a week at MGM Grand this summer
- Byrd big favorite in tonight's fight
- Odds favor Big Brown at Preakness, tossup on Triple Crown
- Cher fans are the real show
- Fire restrictions imposed early on public lands in Nevada
- Opposition surrounds health care deal
- Gibbons approves toll road proposal
- Compounding a disaster
- Looming questions
- Helping rape victims
- Drilling in wildlife refuge avoids real issue
- Arctic drilling, research both needed
- Outfit cars so they can't speed
- Was Eight Belles treated inhumanely?
- Can’t accuse either party of sanity
- A shoulder, or two, to lean on
- UNLV nursing student earns one of state’s first Ph.D.s in field
- Stratosphere’s refusal to honor expired ticket gives sports books another black eye
- Ballet’s renowned pointe man
- Sun wins award for top newspaper Web site
- Already, CityCenter’s scale, complexity unparalleled
- Army reservist throws early hat in NLV City Council ring
- Virtuoso introducing America to classical music on the accordion
- One tough guy, even when he lost
- Barkley says he’ll repay Wynn gambling debt
- All this talk about raising gaming taxes
- Kidney transplant outcomes fell short
Thursday, May 15
- Why flags are flying at half-staff
- Porter joins Dems in supporting beefed-up GI Bill
- UMC employee arrested for theft from hospital
- Boulder City: A gateway to the past
- Federal report reveals more details about Las Vegas hepatitis outbreak
- They openly say they are NUTS
- Las Vegas Sun named top newspaper Web site in nation
- Celebs take shelter: Kathy Griffin heading toward Vegas
- UNLV students safe in China
- Magic Kingdom performs a little magic in a dreary economy
- Minor quake shakes northwest Reno
- Movie on Binion's death to premiere in September
- Sea (Stone) change
- A Gamble in the Sand
- Desert oasis drying up
- A gambling world away from the Strip
- 'Bugsy' Siegel - The mob's man in Vegas
- Elvis has yet to leave the building
- The other Vegas
- Las Vegas Showgirls: Show and (a lot to) tell
- Conscience of the community
- Bill that transformed a city
- Fremont Street: A block with experience
- Battle-born Henderson now 'A Place to Call Home'
- Atomic testing burned its mark
- Boulder City: A gateway to the past
- Desert highway turned destination
- Where the fighter pilot calls home
- Mob Ties
- Siegfried & Roy: Las Vegas' magic duo
- Wayne Newton owned the Strip
- The highs and lows of the World Series of Poker
- Showtime: How Sin City evolved into 'The Entertainment Capital of the World'
- Home of Sin City's original sin
- The many colors of Mayor Oscar Goodman
- Tying the knot with ease or Elvis
- Las Vegas weather can be a gamble
- 'Eighth Wonder of the World'
- Rat Pack reveled in Vegas; revered by the world
- Howard Hughes: A revolutionary recluse
- Upholding dress code
- Operation Iraqi Corruption
- Mileage miracle
- This Democratic race isn’t over
- Big Oil witch hunt all for political gain
- Despoiling refuge for oil is futile
- Bush’s sacrifice of golf a travesty
- Porter: OK tax for GI Bill I support? I’ll see
- A guide to Las Vegas Historic Preservation Month
- Blunders yield bonanza
- Petition seeks OK for hemp in energy research
- Take Five: Tyler Mosienko
- Embrace the role of the villain
- Whatever she had, Cher's still got it
- Don’t mourn what is gone; celebrate what has survived
- I get my shot at Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid
- The Wynn sues Barkley, claims $400,000 gambling debts unpaid
- Landfill decree avoids big issue
- Dropping out to go to work
Wednesday, May 14
- Secretary of state challenges filing, creates first term limits case
- Shots fired at Cheyenne High School
- Yucca license application expected in early June
- Heck Returns Home
- Politico: Dems tying GOP candidates to unflattering portrayals of Adelson
- AG backs up secretary of state on recall petitions
- McCain will be in Reno on May 28, feted by city's elected, business elite
- IRS, Department of Labor complaints filed against Sen. Hardy
- And you wonder who pays for those expensive casinos
- Who's better: Kurt Busch or Kyle Busch?
- Fire destroys Boulder Highway casino (UPDATED)
- CityCenter pushes ahead, despite economy
- Surge in transit
- Paying for education
- Joe Egan, 1955-2008
- We’re all responsible for gas dependency
- Republicans also reject green energy
- Democrats should now back Obama
- Gov. Jim Gibbons’ inner circle fawning over a frazzled boss
- Goodman changes face on state’s top job
- Voters, pick your fix for gas prices
- Urban League takes a shot at developing its own priorities
- Theater makes the man
- Jeff Haney on New England’s unprecedented over/under line for season wins at one sports book, and why there are worthy arguments for each side
- Desai, colleagues may take the Fifth, stalling lawsuits for years
- In anti-tax Nevada, policy can be pawned
- Nevada not a progressive state?
- Letter to his boss faults Clark
- Rogers giveth and taketh away, until he gets what he wants
- The globe-trotting basketball
Tuesday, May 13
- Wranglers win in OT
- Darlington should have 2 Sprint Cup races
- The Good Fight at Wolfgang Puck's
- Police hunt two suspects in April murder
- Sheldon Adelson questioned by Israeli police
- Democratic lawmakers write letters, send out news release
- Reid to Lieberman: That's a second demerit
- Saddle Cove Road closes for water pipeline construction
- Neighbors say 'no surprise' to northwest Las Vegas murder-suicide
- Titus files today for congressional race
- Klieg light on OSHA
- Mining the Grand Canyon
- Hardly an advantage
- Americans need to shed their gas addiction
- Solar parking covers aren’t yet economical
- Why riding the bus can be a pleasure
- His priority: Protect rural water
- Yucca foe fought till his death — and beyond
- Guitars & Saxes adds feminine touch to cool jazz
- Comedy is magician’s secret
- Jack Sheehan on the rise of glass ceiling-shatterer Cindy Kiser Murphey, head of New York-New York
- Plan: Remove toxins, build homes
- Vegas slump hits Station Casinos
- Despite few layoffs, workers feel fear
- Board cuts its travel budget, a little more than asked
- Bearded look cuts no ice
- Doesn’t he have enough problems
Monday, May 12
- Wranglers jump out on Utah, 5-2, in conference finals opener
- Dead infant found in Las Vegas casino trash can
- Should She Stay or Should She Go?
- Big cat the answer in Carson City sheep deaths
- A win for homeowners
- Disaster in waiting
- Unfit for combat?
- Government must tighten belt just like we do
- Obama unassailable on issues that matter
- Blame Democrats for high price of energy
- Over the last month or so Freedom’s Watch ...
- Where credit is due
- Last week’s Indiana primary brings back hometown memories
- NLV’s annexation of industrial park expected to start within weeks
- Disney takes another pass at Vegas with filming of ‘Witch Mountain’
- Osmonds, Osmonds everywhere
- One man’s theories on Vegas’ economy, then and now
- Story, music of ‘Jersey Boys’ pop the lid off memories
- Despite slowdown, casino giant spending big
- Officers are people, too
- A night of classic country, coming from Ireland
- United Way redistributing wealth to local charities
- CityCenter signals a change in the very nature of development on the Strip
- Compared with ‘The Locust,’ she eats like a bird
Sunday, May 11
- Rush makes time stand still at Mandalay Bay
- Not so magnanimous
- Energy all around us
- Public health problem
- Why workplace safety can’t be understated
- America is no longer the envy of the world
- No single cause of overpopulation
- Several games of political chicken converging at one intersection
- The first week of filing is over ...
- New-route noise lights up airport hotline
- After public misfire on polygamy, Reid acts to help those he blasted
- With that pay, no way, many would-be graduate students tell UNLV
- Eye-to-eye ends with the economy
- Keeping the heat on OSHA
- Intent on her doctoral dream
- A class's varied views of Vegas
- Brian Greenspun has a proposal for a ticket to unite Democrats
- First, Democrats wanted clout on cuts; now they’re not sure
Saturday, May 10
- Observations from Saturday’s Dodge Challenger 500 at Darlington Raceway
- Las Vegas Billboards Advertise Fast Cash, Cheap Thrills
- Toni Braxton's Las Vegas show remains dark
- State now facing still more cuts
- Ditch the flip-flops
- The lost bees
- Making student-athletes
- Heller’s bill has sensible voting requirements
- Address greed, not overpopulation
- Don’t subsidize the foolhardy
- Chuck Muth doesn’t understand ...
- Clinic patients’ choice: Recourse or privacy
- Fact and fiction collide
- Fremont East shows signs of regaining momentum
- Candidates for board include insiders
- The Elevator
- The academics of party planning
Friday, May 9
- Services set for comedian David Swan
- No surprise: visitor numbers continue to soften
- Gaming revenue, especially slots, continue their decline
- New hepatitis cases draw national media interest
- Abridging voting rights
- Ending credit deception?
- Help fight hunger
- Safety, building inspections are full-time jobs
- Obama has history
- Local hospital’s care, personnel were great
- The Perfect Storm
- Beyond numbers and into the unquantifiable
- Las Vegas ambassador extraordinaire
- Nevada Republicans bolt party line, support housing package
- Drama of biblical tale elevates music of ‘King David’
- CNA tips status quo, but doesn’t oust SEIU
- Council finds soft spot for needy
- CityCenter still selling condos despite slowdown
- Safe Bets
- Bringing players back into game
- Union pushed; Trop fell
- As zany as ever, Mayor Oscar Goodman is.
- Sun journalists win Best of the West awards
Thursday, May 8
- Musicians Union official recovering after near-fatal traffic accident
- Down from the mountain
- Young @ Heart
- Redbelt
- The cowboy has lots of friends
- What Happens in Vegas
- The AG gives a green light and a lawmaker says: "Let's go!"
- A sickly sweet confection
- Cutting $800 million from next session's budget? Here are the documents
- Dying for Sport?
- Larger than life
- Mock the vote
- Tricks of the trade
- Working his way back to you
- Do you feel a draft?
- On pins and Needles
- Something we didn’t plan for
- Enhanced GI bill meeting resistance
- The Help Desk
- A walk to remember
- Kyle Busch is the Dennis the Menace of NASCAR
- Pair of CSN pitchers from '03 title season doing well
- Vegas prepares for Her Madgesty
- Comedian David Swan loses battle to cancer
- Health District says 77 potential hepatitis C cases identified
- 3.8 quake rattles Reno area
- Outrageous stonewalling
- Another mess at UMC
- Prices at the pump
- Overpopulation drains world water supplies
- Tyrants responsible for world famines
- 55-mph speed limit will save gas, money
- Board chief fires back, backs off
- Has he made the grade?
- Overcome with the power of the green movement
- Divorce as political spectacle
- 30 years later, still hungry
- Transgender killer torn with guilt, searching still for identity
- Eclectic musical mix makes familiar sound
- True sign of the times: Vegas tips are slipping
- Opening act has Las Vegas spirit with British accent
- Texas tourist hits $21 million Megabucks jackpot at Palms
Wednesday, May 7
- Dirk Arthur's home, habitat for his wild animals
- Findlay Prep guard Gutierrez signs with California
- Yucca Mountain attorney dies of stomach cancer
- Kambala, 647th in a heavyweight ranking, fights Friday
- And the sign said: If you're not in business, you need not apply
- Hit Bottom?
- Police seek information on man stabbed to death near Sunset Park
- Countrywide suspends home equity credit lines in Las Vegas
- A case for openness
- Voters in the dark
- No amnesty for deadbeats
- Let’s chart our nation back to greatness
- Don’t blame Obama for Wright’s rantings
- Despite sour ending, conference a success
- Regressive tax system won’t work
- Jon Ralston feels their pain, but would ask Jim and Dawn: Why now?
- Peddling medical getaways
- Retired teachers’ health plan pact reached
- Community champion shows with pluck, little guy can win
- UMC thefts on overtime alleged
- They’ll always be champs
- For Dina Titus, it's good to be anointed
- Better baseball betting
- Medical board refuses to release Desai complaints
- Adelson won’t relinquish fight to block Palazzo club
- Top ‘popera’ names in Vegas lights
- Through the valley of darkness
Tuesday, May 6
- Obama takes North Carolina, Clinton barely holds onto Indiana
- Self-sabotage on "Idol"?
- House committee targets VA on suicides
- A sad farewell to one of the "Jersey Boys"
- New generation of titans emerging in Las Vegas
- MGM Mirage blames profit dips on Monte Carlo fire
- OSHA needs help
- Too much secrecy
- Deceiving the public
- How could we have been so wrong about war?
- Mortgage bailout unfair to majority
- Obama changes tune on minister too late
- Let’s vote on issues, not trivial sidelights
- Nurses unions’ showdown starts today
- Teamsters may undercut members
- Seven high schools could start drug tests
- So Gov. Jim Gibbons chooses Cinco de Mayo, of all days, to propose an amnesty plan …
- The upside of anger: Neighbors meeting neighbors
- ‘Jersey Boys’ is all about the music
- Sideshow stars fondly recognized
- Planned coal plant gives up its water source
- Given $50,000, he decides to run
- They have overcome
Monday, May 5
- Reid tells the Daily Show: We're in a holding pattern
- Trace of rain in Las Vegas Valley
- Tropicana Entertainment makes money but still files for bankruptcy
- Tropicana to seek protection from bankruptcy
- Pedestrian death slows I-15
- Wranglers welcome nine-day playoff layoff
- Gibbons proposes tax amnesty program
- Attorney in Nevada's Yucca case is seriously ill
- Family of teen found in storm drain offers reward
- Judge seals governor's divorce records
- Attorney: Dawn got Jim where he is today
- The Company of Tomorrow
- Vegas oddsmaker picks Archuleta as "Idol"
- Group seeks to preserve resting place of hundreds
- $1 billion boondoggle
- An unappetizing review
- Keep those guns packed
- Issues surrounding Obama now are superficial
- Overpopulation puts a strain on Earth
- Economy a lot worse than Bush, Cheney say
- So here was the lead paragraph ...
- Ross’ green light has shades of gray
- It’s Barkley’s bag (maybe), but it doesn’t say much about him
- Staging a comeback
- Porter’s nudge greenward
- Mischief-making blockers are signature gatherers’ bane
- Revamped Pogo’s will be a cleaner place, maybe more musical
- Music company scraps plan for theater space in historic building
- Juleps, giant hats and cigar smoke
- Businesses scurry to build defenses for possible unionizing onslaught
Sunday, May 4
- Nirvana Bleach Rocks
- Canadian teen finds Love in Las Vegas
- A greener Exxon Mobil?
- FDA in bad shape
- A real difference
- McCain is the best choice for our nation
- Rebate checks are a flimsy Band-Aid
- Air traffic must catch up with the times
- Honoring mobsters is the wrong way to go
- Blame GOP for the downfall of education
- Here’s a novel idea, Senator — a sequel
- Everywhere, they are talking politics
- Rent hike redux at Cactus Ridge
- Congress goes extra mile for homeowners
- Brian Greenspun knows a leader when he sees one
- In politics, spoils go to those who have fun
- On safety, we could learn from NYC
- If you don’t think some hunters have issues ...
- A coal-fired discussion
Saturday, May 3
- Observations from Saturday's Crown Royal 400 at Richmond International Raceway
- Life at the top in Las Vegas
- CSN baseball wins 15th in a row to claim conference crown
- New lead in missing North Las Vegas girl
- Voters left in the lurch
- The public’s health
- No more delays
- Energy crisis beyond leaders’ comprehension
- Ignoring Clinton votes is just plain wrong
- Fallen heroes deserve special recognition
- Now that the (mostly) subterranean drama ...
- Planning official up in arms over putdowns of Las Vegas
- Surprise! Strip’s an urban place
- The Elevator
- Mending, one day at a time
- Prosecutors drop charges against Selimaj
- Longtime school official to run for board
Friday, May 2
- A 6-3 victory over Alaska puts Wranglers in first semifinals
- Regents have big wish list but expect little from lawmakers
- US Airways spokesman says some, not all LV flights cancelled
- High school baseball teams receive high rankings
- Gibbons files for divorce, asks back in to mansion
- The wide-ranging lawsuit in The Great Hepatitis Scare of 2008
- The son of a cabbie wants to be a limo mogul
- UNLV math prof to run for State Assembly seat
- IndyCar vs. NASCAR
- Fire shuts down Lake Mead Parkway near U.S. 95 (UPDATED)
- Together in the dark, listening to the radio
- Vegas Gay Pride Parade glows in the dark
- Festivities abound at annual brothel event
- Whooping cough worry leads to vaccinations
- Man pleads not guilty to federal charges in ricin case
- Halverson to court: Don't make me run this time!
- Parks wants Titus' seat
- Gibbons to ask Fossett widow to help cover search cost
- Bush’s same old rhetoric
- Mortgage changes needed
- Billable hours?
- Why overpopulation isn’t the real problem
- Clinton’s war vote disqualifies her
- Obama would best answer 3 a.m. call
- So now that a judge has decided yet another initiative ...
- Jon Ralston lauds Gibbons’ spending commission, with a few conditions
- No crossing over
- State agent quits amid missing evidence inquiry
- Sorry, Oscar, you’re wrong
- Jurors, don’t expect any shut-eye in these courts
- Local government safety role to get a look
- Wisdom went with the words at Native Son
- Expo to introduce best-known, less-known arts groups
- Cruel world, unusual spirit
- Our concentration of resorts is cited as economic model
Thursday, May 1
- Alaska ekes out wild OT victory over Wranglers
- Gondo's heart transplant doesn't go as planned
- Titus' congressional run alters others' political plans
- Fire in Henderson home displaces 11 people
- Lawsuit filed in hepatitis case
- Wynn Resorts first-quarter profit drops 20 percent
- Alleged shooter says Pacman Jones framed him
- Police await Wisconsin DNA test in missing girl case
- World Series of Poker moves final table to November
- Carrie Underwood "liquored up in Vegas"
- Reid offers a back story to his story
- Las Vegas Sands Corp. posts first-quarter loss of $11.2 million
- Richards appointed president of CSN
- Gaming stocks down in April
- Governor expected to bill Steve Fossett's widow for search
- Experts confused by quakes
- Give OSHA more teeth
- Win for open government
- Aviation disgrace
- Setting kids on right path starts at home
- What exactly has Bush accomplished?
- Obama, Clinton not in McCain’s league
- On Iraq war, don’t blame Congress
- Disputed charter school can’t be barred
- Losing ground
- He may fold ’em to just be Dad
- Fixed-game drama uses Rebels clip
- Richards CSN’s likely pick, pleasing higher ed chief
- Poor people’s advocate may need a little help itself
- Rep. Shelley Berkley has an opponent?
- It’s over, but what a way to go
- Motocross weekend
- Desai tried but failed in car transaction