Las Vegas Sun

Now that state gaming control and local business license officials are getting around to cracking down on “lewd” behavior on the Las Vegas Strip, they may want to take a look at the Clark County ordinance governing so-called European sunbathing. The ordinance permits topless bathing at designated adult pools but specifies ...

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Doug Hampton, the man whose wife had an affair with U.S. Sen. John Ensign (R-Nev.), has been the hottest “get” in news circles (with the exception of his wife, Cindy) since Ensign admitted the affair at a brief news conference last month. Well, we got him and you can watch the first of our exclusive two-part interview tonight on Las Vegas ONE, Cox Cable channel 19. The Sun will post the program to its website Wednesday, too, for those who don’t have cable.

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Cries of cronyism have long emanated from critics of Nevada’s Board of Medical Examiners. In fact, the board’s regular members were found to be so closely tied to Dr. Dipak Desai that Gov. Gibbons appointed special members to adjudicate the cases involving Desai’s endoscopy clinics. Now, those presumably independent physicians have unanimously sided with restoring privileges to Dr. Eladio Carrera, one of Desai’s partners. In exchange, Carrera promises to help make the case against Desai and others.

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The lawsuit against the City of Las Vegas and the state of Nevada will not be withdrawn now that lawmakers are forcing the city and state to reopen F Street, a primary access between downtown Las Vegas and the predominantly African-American “Westside.”

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First Amendment champion Dominic Gentile - out to tamp free speech? As Jon asks at the beginning of today’s program, “Are we in some parallel universe?”

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Jon is off covering every hiccup at the Legislature so hosting duties fell to me this morning. While Jon possesses a tremendous ability to keep his own feelings on a topic in check, I am sometimes challenged to do so, as was the case today.

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We make mistakes on Face to Face but thankfully, not too often. Accuracy in our business is everything. Due to production errors in Thursday’s program, we wrongly labeled two campaign donations to Las Vegas City Council candidate Glenn Trowbridge as labor-related. In fact, they are not. We also wrongly attributed to ...

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Hard money brokers provide quick, no-fuss financing at double-digit interest rates to developers who can’t get or don’t want to get loans from banks. In good times borrowers make their payments and investors collect high-yield returns. In bad times borrowers default and lenders get left with property that may sell for a fraction of the previously appraised valued.

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Juvenile justice advocates are applauding what they see as a step forward by the Nevada Legislature, which is considering a bill that would raise the threshold age from 14 to 16 to certify a minor as an adult for criminal proceedings. But, as is too often the tradition in the Legislature, lawmakers are considering a counterproductive (and cost-saving) measure to close half the beds at the valley’s only facility for more violent juvenile offenders.

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Aside from sending young servicemen for comped drinks and lap dances at one of Mike Galardi’s topless joints, former Clark County commissioner Mary Kincaid-Chauncey remains unrepentant for the acts that landed her in a federal prison for two years. And it’s Kincaid-Chauncey’s moral objection to the clubs, not the realization she garnered special treatment for her grandson and his friends, that has her regretting that act.

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During a November program we told you about a private investigator, Jim Thomas, who obtained reports from Metropolitan Police containing social security numbers and other confidential information on hundreds of unwitting citizens. Thomas was doing the bidding of local businessman Jeff Guinn, the son of then-Governor Kenny Guinn. The younger ...

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On tonight’s program Metro Sheriff Doug Gillespie defends the SWAT operation that resulted in the shooting of three officers. Gillespie was on his way to a ceremony to honor the officers, who thankfully suffered relatively minor injuries.

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The attorney representing the family of a woman gunned down by Henderson police during a traffic stop says the coroner’s inquest which cleared police may help the family’s case.

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New information in the controversial SWAT raid of a Seven Hills home is raising more questions about the manner in which Metro executed the narcotics search warrant that resulted in the resident firing shots at officers.

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Viewers tonight will hear a minute from the 9-1-1 call Seven Hills resident Belinda Saavedra placed in late December as police stormed her home.

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