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  • Commission overrules staff on jail food bid

    Clark County commissioners voted 5-2 on Tuesday to hire a more expensive food service provider for the Clark County Detention Center after the company protested the bid outcome. The vote gives Aramark Correctional Services a $5 million annual contract. County staff had passed over Aramark's bid in favor of New Era Foods Co. of San Ramon, Calif. New Era Foods Co. had pegged the ...

  • NSA director says sweeping surveillance program foiled plot against Wall Street

    WASHINGTON - The U.S. foiled a plot to bomb the New York Stock Exchange because of the sweeping surveillance programs at the heart of a debate over national security and personal privacy, officials said Tuesday at a rare open hearing on intelligence led by lawmakers sympathetic to the spying. The House Intelligence Committee hearing provided a venue for officials to defend the once-secret ...

  • Vegas Strip to Be Home of Arena

    LAS VEGAS | Casino giant MGM Resorts International and entertainment company AEG announced Tuesday that it will build a privately financed 20,000- seat indoor venue on the Las Vegas Strip. Las Vegas-based MGM Resorts and Los Angeles based AEG said in a joint announcement that construction should start next summer on the $350 million arena on land the casino company owns between the New York-New ...

  • Henderson Chooses Engineering Firm For Park Project

    An engineering firm will provide design services for the Boulder Creek Park project in the amount of $132,500 under an agreement approved Tuesday by the Henderson City Council. The council voted unanimously to approve the professional services agreement between the city and Slater Hanifan Group Inc., an engineering firm with offices in Las Vegas and Phoenix. Boulder Creek Park will be near the ...

  • National study rates Nevada teacher education programs low

    Teacher preparation programs in Nevada are not adequately training the next generation of educators, according to a national study that reviewed more than 1,000 programs and was released Tuesday. While some state education leaders say they take the study seriously, others believe the review was flawed and lacks credibility. Programs at the state's colleges and universities received low ...


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Mission: Impossible–Ghost Protocol [Blu-Ray]

Mission: Impossible–Ghost Protocol [Blu-Ray]

Despite the unwieldy title, Mission: ImpossibleGhost Protocol, the fourth entry in the now 15-year-old franchise based on the cult 1960s television series, is an effectively enthralling back-to-basics action thriller. Moving away from J.J. Abramss ... ...

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  • Feds boost homeland security funding for state of Nevada

    CARSON CITY -- Nevada has received a federal homeland security grant of $3.46 million, an increase over last year of nearly $700,000, the state Department of Public Safety announced Tuesday. The grant was awarded to the state Division of Emergency Management and Homeland Security by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. "I am pleased Nevada has been awarded this grant, with an ...

  • Clark County proposes Spring Mountains land swap with feds

    Clark County wants to do a land swap with the federal government. County officials want to give up the county's 4.12 acres at Lee Meadows, in the Spring Mountains National Recreation Area. In exchange, they want the title to Camp Lee Canyon from the U.S. Forest Service. The move would help prevent fee increases that have been put in place for the camp. Commissioner Larry Brown also said the ...

  • Commissioners pleased with new public process following police-involved shootings

    After five months and three public reviews of police-related fatalities, Clark County commissioners are generally pleased with how the county's new public fatality fact-finding review process works. The commissioners on Tuesday heard a planned, routine report on the process, which offers the public a window into the decisions tied to cases in which police officers use deadly force. ...

  • Man who rushed to save Rep. Giffords fights gun violence in Las Vegas

    His cellphone, his bloody pants and bloody shirt are all sitting in some FBI evidence room in Quantico, Va. And Daniel Hernandez, who helped save the life of Gabrielle Giffords after the then-Democratic congresswoman from Arizona was shot in the head two years ago, said Tuesday he doesn't care to get them back any time soon. They're history, as far as he's concerned; or, rather, ...

  • Southern Nevada nature opens eyes of Hispanic youth

    Brushing the hair out of his eyes, Julian Elias tilts his head back and gazes up at something most Las Vegans have seen. The Hoover Dam. But few have the security clearance to view it from the bottom of Black Canyon, a location accessed by a winding worker's road reachable only by those with a key code to open the gate. Standing in the shadow of Hoover Dam's 726-foot wall of water ...

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