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  • Construction defects bill getting little support in Nevada Legislature

    CARSON CITY -- Republicans on Thursday blasted an amended construction defects bill whose Democratic sponsor admitted will bring little help to the economically devastated construction industry. "You are correct, not everyone is happy," said Assembly Minority Leader Pat Hickey, R-Las Vegas, after listening to Democrat Richard "Skip" Daly of Sparks discuss Assembly Bill 367. ...

  • Suspicious package prompts Nellis Air Force Base hospital evacuation

    The Nellis Air Force Base hospital was evacuated for two hours Thursday after a suspicious package was discovered about 11 a.m. "Our Explosive Ordnance Disposal responded and discovered that it was just a box that was completely harmless." said Nellis spokesman Scott Knuteson, The EOD's bomb robot was dispatched to O'Callaghan Federal Hospital, only to discover that the box ...

  • Experts release independent review of Rawson-Neal Psychiatric Hospital

    In an independent review of Rawson-Neal Psychiatric Hospital in Las Vegas, two national experts found a number of ways in which the hospital can make improvements. Those areas include treatment services, treatment and discharge planning, increasing staff and improving documentation, according to the report released Thursday afternoon. It would cost money for the hospital to implement ...

  • North Las Vegas company to test spacecraft capable of moon landing

    Thursday23 May 20133:16 p.m. Las Vegans are used to seeing passenger planes, fighter jets and helicopters crisscrossing the congested skies. Next year, if you make the extra effort, you could also see a spacecraft. Aerospace entrepreneur Robert Bigelow unveiled plans Thursday for a craft known as The Guide. He gave few details but described it as a "flight-like testing unit" that ...

  • Feds cut off funding for counter-terrorism efforts in Las Vegas

    Congressman Steven Horsford (D-NV), right, takes a tour of the Southern Nevada Counter-Terrorism Center, also known as the Fusion Center, with Jim Owens, left, deputy chief of Metro’s homeland security division, and Capt. Al Salinas, center director, at Metro Police Headquarters Thursday, May 2, 2013. Officials at the center are concerned that budget cuts that might negatively affect its ...


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The Two of Us (Le vieil homme et l'enfant) [DVD]

The Two of Us (Le vieil homme et l'enfant) [DVD]

The beauty of Claude Berri's debut film, The Two of Us (Le vieil homme et l'enfant), is that it doesn't serve up an obvious lesson at the end. It is a sweet, unadorned story about love and bigotry, and were it to be remade in Hollywood (God forbid), it would surely end with o ... ...

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  • Las Vegas loses out on federal anti-terrorism funding

    For the first time, the Las Vegas metropolitan area didn't make the cut in its efforts to receive anti-terrorism funding this year from the federal government, officials said Thursday. As a result, local agencies will not get funding to support antiterrorism programs and preparedness -- money that provided $1.8 million this year. The money has funded efforts that include the anti-terrorism ...

  • Las Vegas gas prices likely headed up if Nevada passes fuel-tax bill

    Thursday, May 23, 2013 | 2:37 p.m. Gas prices could increase statewide under a bill that received strong support today from lawmakers and business groups. The gas tax increases would begin later this year in Clark County, if the Clark County Commission approves tethering various gas taxes to a certain measure of the inflation rate. So as the price of goods balloons, so, too, does the gas tax. ...

  • Mining tax measure placed on 2014 statewide ballot

    CARSON CITY -- With Assembly approval on Thursday, Nevada voters next year will be asked if the mining industry's constitutional limit on the taxes they pay for extracting gold and other precious metals should be repealed. The vote on Senate Joint Resolution 15 was 26-15, the final step needed to put it on the 2014 general election ballot. It was a party-line vote with all Republicans ...

  • Reid introduces bill to create Gold Butte national conservation area

    WASHINGTON -- An effort was launched in Congress on Thursday to designate 350,000 acres of government-protected conservation land and wilderness northeast of Las Vegas. Sen. Harry Reid, D-Nev., proposed to create a National Conservation Area at Gold Butte, a region of rugged mountains, sandstone ridges, native American petroglyphs and abandoned mine sites in Clark County between the Overton arm ...

  • Nearly all U.S. states see hefty drop in teen births Nevada rate falls 30 percent

    NEW YORK -- The nation's record-low teen birth rate stems from robust declines in nearly every state, but most dramatically in several Mountain States and among Hispanics, according to a new government report. All states but West Virginia and North Dakota showed significant drops over five years. But the Mountain States of Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, Nevada and Utah saw rates fall by 30 ...

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