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  • Gas cheaper than last Memorial Day but travel expected to drop

    Memorial Day weekend travel is expected to be slightly lower this year from 2012, according to a forecast this week from AAA. The auto club's Mountain West region -- which includes Nevada and neighboring states such as Arizona, Idaho and Utah -- should see about 2.6 million trips of 50 miles or more. Nationally, the number of treks is 34.8 million. Both come in less than 1 percent fewer ...

  • Senate Democrats 11-10 majority makes big difference in three votes

    CARSON CITY -- The importance of Democrats holding a one-vote majority in the Senate was clearly demonstrated Thursday night when they passed three straight bills by 11-10 margins. Two of the bills are designed to increase voter turnout, a step that generally is thought to benefit Democrats. The bills also passed the Assembly on party-line votes and now go to Republican Gov. Brian Sandoval. ...

  • Nevada prison guard arrested in Las Vegas bank robbery

    Benjamin Kyker is very familiar with the Nevada prisons system, but the veteran prison guard could soon be bunking with the kind of men he's been guarding. Kyker, a sergeant with the Southern Desert Correctional Center in Indian Springs, was arrested Thursday and faces charges in connection to conspiring with a security guard to rob a bank. According to his Las Vegas police arrest report, ...

  • Sex education bill for Nevada schools dies

    CARSON CITY -- Legislation to create a new medically-accurate, age-appropriate sex education program for Nevada schools died quietly on the state Senate secretary's desk Friday. Assembly Bill 230 needed Senate approval Friday to stay alive under the Legislature's requirement that bills pass a second house by midnight or automatically die. Critics had complained the bill might lead to ...

  • Rock fantasy camp in Las Vegas

    LAS VEGAS -; He'd seen the hype: "You On Stage With Rock Stars!" n So, San Diego surfer and aspiring rocker Gary Young was feeling good vibrations. He'd come 300-plus miles in his 1951 surf sticker-plastered woodie station wagon with two boards on top for a "once in a lifetime opportunity to jam out" with Beach Boys mastermind Brian Wilson and guitar guru Jeff Beck ...


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The Golden Age of Television [DVD]

The Golden Age of Television [DVD]

On May 9, 1961, Newton Minow, then chair of the Federal Communications Commission, delivered a speech to the National Association of Broadcasters in Washington, D.C., that will forever be known as the Vast Wasteland Speech. In it, Minow excoriated the three maj ... ...

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  • Las Vegas police search for armed man involved in at least nine robberies

    Las Vegas police are asking for the public's assistance as they search for a "Quick Pinch" armed suspect in a series of robberies on the west side of town.At least nine robberies have occurred between 2 a.m. and 6 a.m. in convenience stores in the areas between Hualapai Way and Buffalo Drive, and Flamingo Road and Charleston Boulevard. They all happened from March to May 18, ...

  • Vintner Grill banquet facility at Fashion Show Mall shut down by health inspector

    Summerlin favorite Vintner Grill had its banquet location inside Neiman Marcus at Fashion Show Mall shut down as a health hazard by the Southern Nevada Health District. Environmental health supervisor Robert Urzi said the facility actually could have been closed May 22 for either of two reasons -- because the 45 demerits inspectors found was five more than allowable threshold and because backup ...

  • Provo couple dies in St. George motorhome crash

    A Jeep that was being towed behind an RV crashed into several townhomes on Friday in St. George, Utah. A Provo couple on a family recreational vehicle trip was killed when their motorhome crashed into several St. George townhomes, authorities ...

  • Amended More Cops bill clears state Senate returns to Assembly

    CARSON CITY -- The "More Cops" bill that would allow the sales tax to be boosted in Clark County to put more police officers on the street was approved 18-3 in the Nevada Senate on Friday. Sheriff Doug Gillespie said earlier the bill would lead to the hiring of 400 more cops for the Metropolitan Police Department, although the money could be used to cover decline in other revenue and ...

  • Bill would fund college for spouses of service members killed in action

    WASHINGTON -- A bill revived in Congress would pay the college education of individuals whose spouses were service members killed in the line of duty. Current law limits education allowances to $936 per month for military widows and widowers. The legislation, introduced Thursday and estimated to cost $200 million over 10 years, would cover full in-state college tuition and fees, plus provide a ...

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