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Rare Snow Blankets Vegas Strip
Rare Snow Blankets
Vegas Strip
Dec 18, 2008 4:13 AM CST

Rare Snow Blankets Vegas Strip

Schoolkids get first snow day in 30 years as traffic snarls

(Newser) - The heaviest snowfall in nearly 30 years has left the Vegas Strip looking like a winter wonderland, the Las Vegas Sun reports. Local schoolkids are getting their first snow day since 1979. Traffic is snarled across the city as the weather stuns snow-novice drivers, and strands hundreds of tourists in...

OJ to Be Sentenced Today
OJ to Be Sentenced Today
Dec 5, 2008 3:29 AM CST

OJ to Be Sentenced Today

Prosecutors pushing for 18 years on felony robbery raps

(Newser) - Clark County inmate #2648927—better known as OJ Simpson—is to be sentenced today and probation authorities have recommended he serve at least 18 years, the Las Vegas Sun reports. Simpson was found guilty in October of 11 felonies for ripping off two sports memorabilia dealers in a Las Vegas...

Brothels Screwed by Economy
 Brothels Screwed by Economy 
Nov 4, 2008 12:00 PM CST

Brothels Screwed by Economy

Even sex isn't selling as truckers losing 'play money' bypass Nevada brothels

(Newser) - The flagging economy is threatening to send Nevada's whorehouses to the poorhouse, the Los Angeles Times reports. Managers of some of the state's 25 legal brothels say they have no shortage of newcomers—some as old as 74—wishing to enter the world's oldest profession, but food and fuel prices...

Talking Heads Vow Restraint ... Sort of

Networks vow some restraint

(Newser) - Television news executives have vowed they won't jump the gun and project a president-elect until one man has 270 electoral votes. And they won't count electoral votes until polls are closed, reports the Los Angeles Times. But if key states in the East and Midwest back Obama, viewers will likely...

FBI Corruption Probe Clears Nevada Gov.

No charges after investigation into defense contractor ties

(Newser) - No charges will be filed against Nevada's governor after an 18-month FBI investigation into his ties with defense contractors, reports the Washington Post. Jim Gibbons, a former Vietnam fighter pilot, was suspected of helping to engineer federal contracts for defense firms in exchange for gifts while he was a member...

Hard Times Turn Latino Voters to Obama

Their support in key Western states could decide election

(Newser) - Campaign workers walking Latino precincts in Las Vegas are finding padlocked doors, foreclosed homes, jobless residents—and more voters supporting Barack Obama, the Los Angeles Times reports. "The economy is so bad, and I am afraid McCain has the same ideas as President Bush," one man told a...

Vegas Waitress Sues Nevada Guv in Alleged Rape Attempt

Says Gibbons, cronies covered up incident

(Newser) - Just months after a messy—and overly public—divorce, Nevada Gov. Jim Gibbons has been slapped with a lawsuit by the Vegas cocktail waitress who claims he assaulted her two years ago and then covered up the police investigation, the Las Vegas Review-Journal reports. Chrissy Mazzeo says she's been "...

Wreckage Is Fossett's; No Body Found

But adventurer's body still nowhere to be seen

(Newser) - Search teams have confirmed that the wreckage helicopters spotted earlier in California’s Inyo National Forest is indeed the plane that Steve Fossett was piloting when he disappeared last year. One searcher said the crash, which looked to have been a head-on crash into a mountain, was "so severe...

Wreckage Spotted Near Fossett Papers

Ground team searching for site spotted from aircraft

(Newser) - An aerial spotter has located what appears to be plane wreckage close to the place where a hiker found ID cards belonging to missing billionaire Steve Fossett, reports the San Francisco Chronicle. A team has been dispatched to do a ground search of the mountainous area in eastern California close...

Latinos Hold Trump in Obama's Nev. Strategy

Dem hopes new, young voters in Reno, Las Vegas can buck GOP trend

(Newser) - Barack Obama is gambling that Latino voters in Nevada’s big cities—Reno and Las Vegas—can deliver the state’s five electoral votes, Dan Hoyle writes in Salon. Economic woes, immigration crackdown, and the costly Iraq war are the draws in Reno, where Latinos make up 12% of voters....

West Turning Blue, Dems Say
 West Turning Blue, Dems Say
Aug 29, 2008 12:54 PM CDT

West Turning Blue, Dems Say

Party boasts strong voter registration, turnout in Mountain states

(Newser) - The Mountain West has historically gone for the GOP, but thanks to aggressive grass-roots organizing, Democrats believe they have a shot at turning red states blue, Politico reports. More field offices, opened much earlier than the GOP's, have boosted registration in Colorado, New Mexico, and Nevada. “This presidential cycle...

'Black Mailbox' a Mecca for UFO Believers

For many, the search for extra-terrestrial life centers on a farming couple's mailbox

(Newser) - A faded, handmade mailbox on a lonely stretch of Nevada highway has become an unlikely tourist attraction, the Los Angeles Times reports. The "Black Mailbox," belonging to a nearby ranching couple, has become a magnet for UFO believers who suspect it is a postbox for extraterrestrials. Some spend...

West Primed for Dems' Taking
 West Primed for Dems' Taking
OPINION
Aug 18, 2008 3:15 PM CDT

West Primed for Dems' Taking

Washington's neglect has voters yearning for change, Colo. senator writes

(Newser) - The West has long been a Republican stronghold, but Democrats have a chance there in November, Ken Salazar writes in the Los Angeles Times. Salazar himself beat the Republican establishment to win a Colorado Senate seat in 2004. Independents are now the region’s largest voting bloc, he writes, and...

Reid Takes the Long View
Reid Takes
the Long View
Aug 12, 2008 8:00 PM CDT

Reid Takes the Long View

Senate majority leader points toward 2010, looking to avoid Daschle's fate

(Newser) - Harry Reid has positioned himself among the Democratic elite in Washington, but that doesn't mean the Senate majority leader is taking his eye off of the 2010 election in his home state of Nevada, reports Politico. Reid is maintaining his power position in the Senate while discreetly launching a campaign...

32 Research Monkeys Die in Overheated Lab

Animals 'cooked to death' when heating system malfunctioned

(Newser) - Thirty-two research monkeys at a Nevada laboratory died because their human handlers left the room fatally hot, said officials for the drug company that runs the facility. Charles River Laboratories representatives have met with USDA officials to discuss new measures to avoid a repeat of the accident that involved a...

Obama Looks to Tip Scales by Boosting Black Vote

Army of volunteers fans out, targeting young people, African Americans

(Newser) - The Obama campaign’s national voter-registration effort has deployed 3,000 volunteers, with one major focus on expanding the African-American voter base dramatically. One volunteer hits the sweltering streets of Macon, Ga., with the Washington Post in tow. "You see how mentally shackled and jaded people are, because they've...

Fossett Search Is on Again
 Fossett Search Is on Again 
Jul 15, 2008 9:36 AM CDT

Fossett Search Is on Again

Missing adventurer declared dead in February

(Newser) - Ten months after Steve Fossett disappeared, a new search for the adventurer's body began yesterday under the guidance of a Canadian geologist and adventure racer who is scouring the Sweetwater Mountains on the Nevada-California border with a team of 10, reports the Reno Gazette-Journal. A competing search party has narrowed...

June Foreclosures Jump 53%
 June Foreclosures Jump 53% 
Jul 10, 2008 7:19 AM CDT

June Foreclosures Jump 53%

One in 501 US households hit with filings last month as crisis rolls on

(Newser) - The number of homeowners stung by the rout in the US housing market jumped last month as foreclosure filings grew by 53% over June a year ago, according to data released today. One in every 501 US households was hit with a foreclosure filing last month.

Gas Prices Screw Nev. Brothels
 Gas Prices Screw Nev. Brothels 
Jun 30, 2008 11:00 AM CDT

Gas Prices Screw Nev. Brothels

Shed a tear for the lonely trucker... or don't

(Newser) - Here's one more casualty of soaring oil prices: Nevada brothels catering to lonely truckers are seeing business plummet. Sky-high diesel prices means that long-haul truckers have less discretionary income, so many brothels are offering promotions to give business a boost. At one establishment, customers get double what they pay for...

Emergency Declared in Calif. Fires

Blazes threaten more than 6,800 homes; better weather expected

(Newser) - President Bush declared a region stretching from Nevada to the Pacific Ocean a federal disaster area, the Los Angeles Times reports, as more than 1,000 fires raged across northern California. Some 17,000 firefighters are battling the blazes, which threaten 6,800 homes. “We don’t have any...

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