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  • 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mining industry's constitutional limit on the taxes they pay for extracting gold and other precious metals should be repealed.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 ...

  • Nevada Legislature advances gay marriage resolution

    CARSON CITY -- A constitutional amendment that would let voters decide whether to legalize gay marriage passed the final hurdle of the 2013 legislative session Thursday but still has a long way to go. Senate Joint Resolution 13 passed the Assembly on a 27-14 vote, bringing the process to get it to the ballot in 2016 to an end for this year. All the no votes were Republicans. It must pass again ...

  • Police ask for publics help in solving slaying robbery of woman

    Police have released this photo of a purse belonging to Jean Main. The purse was taken from Main's home Tuesday. Main was found fatally shot in her northwest valley ...


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Movie Review

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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  • Obama defends drone strikes says they arent cure-all

    WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama on Thursday defended America's controversial drone attacks as legal, effective and a necessary linchpin in an evolving U.S. counterterrorism policy. But he acknowledged the targeted strikes are no "cure-all" and said he is haunted by the civilians unintentionally ...

  • Las Vegas bankruptcy lawyer Goldberg sent to prison

    High-profile Las Vegas bankruptcy attorney Randolph Goldberg will begin serving an 18-month prison term Aug. 21, a federal judge ordered Thursday. Goldberg pleaded guilty in March to one count of tax evasion after striking a deal with federal prosecutors. As part of the deal he agreed to serve the prison term and voluntarily give up his Nevada law license for two years. Goldberg acknowledged he ...

  • Preview Cirque du Soleil’s ‘Michael Jackson One’ opens tonight at Mandalay Bay

    Back in November 2011, it was the glittering gala for "Michael Jackson -- The Immortal World Tour," which has gone on to become the world's largest-grossing tour and this week is en route to Japan, then Australia, followed by China in August. Tonight, it's a different and unique new show, "Michael Jackson One," that opens in its first preview before the splashy June ...

  • 87-year-old woman loses to Trump in civil case

    Jurors sided with the real estate mogul-turned-TV showman in a weeklong civil trial focused on Jacqueline Goldberg's claim that Trump cheated her in a condo bait-and-switch ...

  • Third Calif. law student charged in Vegas bird killing

    Three University of California-Berkeley law school students are accused in the Oct. 2012 killing and decapitation of a helmeted guinea-fowl, like the one seen above, that was part of a Las Vegas resort ...

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