Story archive for May 2008
Saturday, May 31
- Return of Chris Ferraro boosts Wranglers in ECHL Kelly Cup Finals
- Man arrested for shooting father in Las Vegas park
- Man killed in overnight traffic accident
- Protecting ancient heritage
- Summer at home?
- Give ethanol a chance
- Lower gas prices, not our standard of living
- Constant criticism of Bush is unfair
- McCain’s goals in Iraq are unrealistic
- Agencies’ good intentions, poor finances
- Rebels have to wait till next year
- State OSHA boosts work site safety
- The Elevator: Nevada Sports Hall of Fame edition
- To collar costs, Las Vegas will put its eight dogs out of work
- Economic chill freezes Vegas budget
- Hey, neighbor, try our hotel
- Signs of imminent death
- Women score team’s best-ever NCAA finish
Friday, May 30
- Big night all around as Wranglers tie title series, 2-2, with Cincy
- SOS says Adelson petitions not certified
- A gambler knows when to hedge his bets
- Nevada to be part of solar study
- The truth hurts
- Smog begone
- The buzz over Mars
- We can’t drill ourselves out of this rut
- McCain, not Obama, is weak on Iraq war
- Obama didn’t buy Bush’s propaganda
- When will Jim Gibbons be set adrift
- Track manager: Smith mum on second Cup race
- Ron Kantowski watches the consonants fly, and miss, at a spelling bee of sports names
- When Vegas tenors perform Sunday, original member won’t be singing along
- Political activism amid bacchanalia
- Casino plan may survive arena’s death
- Places threatened by the times
- Contract for wood could fire up dormant power plant
- Rezko hires attorney in attempt to stifle warrant
- The power of Sun City
- Jeff Haney discovers the ‘Big Three’ prop, an attractive bet for gamblers who think one of the favored teams in the NFL or college football will win the title
- Rogers boils over
- Energy, budget on Gibbons' mind despite divorce distraction
Thursday, May 29
- Cyclones take 2-1 title series lead on Wranglers
- Braxton's not coming back to Flamingo
- Along comes (a scholarship to) Mary
- Gibbons denies wife's claims of an affair
- Titus: Gas prices are too high
- UNLV's Han selected to PING All-Pacific Region team
- Chancellor warns of dark higher ed days ahead
- Elko editor - Sacrificial Lamb?
- Vegas Valley Book Festival #7 still on the books
- Jazz musician Dick Fazio hospitalized after stroke
- UNLV's Scruggs named to Louisville Slugger All-American team
- When Harry met Pamela
- Online charter high school workshops
- Nuke industry questions McCain’s notion of an international nuclear waste dump site
- Betting on the Bee
- Man injured in hit-and-run accident
- California Family Sues the Las Vegas Sands, LLC, Venetian Casino Resort, LLC, and Manpower, Inc. over stolen moving truck
- Welcome to Mt. Doom
- Deep Impact?
- Wranglers brass hopes for big crowds in Kelly Cup Finals
- Political cover for McCain
- Closing a racial divide
- Child obesity plateaus
- Don’t trust war’s backers on Iraq withdrawal
- ‘Carry-on’ charges make more sense
- Iraq exit strategy was nonexistent
- There’s still time to punish Bush
- Ron Kantowski says Las Vegans can’t let soda-drinking Cincinnatians show them up on the ice, or at the turnstile
- Latino tribute show debuts
- Fundraiser faces arrest in multiple gaming debts
- Playoff excitement building
- Flash! Stealing electricity is risky business
- With the dirt flying, party backing away
- Fifth Street School soon to brim with students of the arts
- Drama of Wright’s comedy is all about the understatement
- Term limits issue still unresolved
- Feeling pain at the pump, agencies downsize, scale back
- Death becomes her
- From the Gulch to Ghostbar
- Crazy eight might be in Britney’s Las Vegas plans
- Small Wonder
- Cyndi Lauper
- In Search of Harry
- Disturbed
- Perez is Burning
- Show them the money
- 300 Dresses
- Too plain, too simple
- A fashionable finale
- Here's the beef! Dixie's herds 'em in for the grand opening weekend
- Throw the Black Book at 'em
- Of maggots and men
- Al Green
- Spiritualized
- In the public eye
- Fall of the Empire ... Ballroom
- Bella Bistro
- Dream Zone
- Chatting with non-partisan comedian Steven Wright
- Four questions with Shooter Jennings
- Peggy Plots Your Planets
- The truth...is in Rachel?
- The Police with Elvis Costello
- The Exies
- The Strangers
- The Fall
- Mudhoney
- What’s in a slogan?
- Outside in
- Red Bull Cola
- Las Vegas' carbon footprint surprisingly small
- The Help Desk
Wednesday, May 28
- Clark County Democratic Party ED resigns
- Robin Leach reporting sale of Cosmopolitan
- White tent serves as Mariott gambling hall
- Stallworth: "Ready for a change"
- No trace of prison babies
- UPDATED: "Sex and" Sin City
- Guest blog: A day with the Wranglers
- Dawn Gibbons' lawyer files divorce documents
- Atkinson Gates to have hand in DNC decision that could settle Obama-Clinton race
- Health care cynicism
- Gaps in port security
- Ditch a bad rule
- Anti-drilling arguments ignore reality
- One way to keep
- Don’t dismiss young supporters of Obama
- Prison loaf should be the norm for inmates
- McCain’s about-face on Yucca
- School choice program sparks interest, if moderate
- Creepiest crime fighters
- Obama targets home issues in Vegas visit
- Subsidized apartments could change hands
- Pssssssst! Cut-rate rooms in classy Vegas
- Jeff Haney discovers razz isn’t a ‘miserable’ poker game, and finds an expert who says it can be the best way for many players to consistently make money
- WAR. What is he good for?
- A cage match, literary style
- Term limits a simple concept, a nightmare issue
- For hotel deals, shop around
Tuesday, May 27
- Stallworth leaving Orleans Arena
- Nevada leaders rally residents against Yucca Mountain
- Don King and Emeril Lagasse get spot in Gaming Hall of Fame
- Special Las Vegas edition of Sports Illustrated hits newsstands
- "Madness" to overtake Las Vegas
- Medical Mafia?
- Sister's story about 'Leaving Las Vegas' author John O'Brien
- Buffalo Jim death ruled accidental; cocaine contributed to death
- SOS to Adelson petitioners: Your affidavits are no good
- At Hilton, the Wranglers are next to the Red Wings on the big board
- McCain: Maybe we don’t need Yucca
- Obama's in town, and the housing crisis is on his lips
- DA says Woodbury & Co. can run
- Lives are at stake
- Erase doubt about ‘Bodies’
- Joe Camel meets academia
- Illegals’ economic contribution immaterial
- Iraq policy holds cure for our energy crisis
- Obama’s backers are patriotic, not naive
- Clinton’s just hinting she wants No. 2 post
- Pundits go overboard on Clinton remark
- Gov. Jim Gibbons is not just getting brickbats ...
- COACHING STALWARTS
- Teens report safer schools, but riskier driving
- Plans burgeon for hot Henderson corner
- Poll finds ill feelings on health care
- Man, woman, nurse, engineer
- Long-term goal for UNLV: Raise graduation rate
- Underground gallery
- Why high school coaches are quitting
- Clean Crue member
Monday, May 26
- People who drive fast cars shouldn't throw stones ... or stomp down the pit lane
- Observations from Saturday night’s NASCAR Coca-Cola 600 at Lowe’s Motor Speedway
- Remembering the troops
- Hold the mayo on that
- Audits are not insults
- American know-how could fix energy crisis
- Illegal immigrants drain economy
- Library Friends treated poorly
- Obama is the lobbyists’ puppet
- Barkley’s gambling debt makes you wonder ...
- Dems target Adelson’s politicking
- Mortgage fraud worse in nearby states
- Fighters relish throwing their weight around
- Vegas vet’s death spurs VA reform legislation
- Bon appetit!
- Local firm backs John Andretti at Indy
Sunday, May 25
- Miller gives Wranglers 1-0 victory, knots title series with Cincy at 1-1
- Father of the dump
- Consumers must take charge
- New energy policy should be top priority
- What makes Clinton so experienced?
- Young Obama backers show their naivete
- Sex handbills sully image of Las Vegas
- Conservative rise: It came from the ’60s
- Jim Gibbons reaps public embarrassment through private sowing
- And you thought no one outside of Nevada ...
- In varied Vegas, two buildings spark architectural debate
- Teachers show how to break through
- Groups that help needy finding the need is great
- Brian Greenspun laments the loss of some of Nevada’s best public officials as a foreseeable result of term limits
- UMC painter blew whistle in ’05
- Their plans to cope with budget squeeze
- Kennedy among gallant fighters
- Get the room tax increase enacted now, senator urges
Saturday, May 24
- Cincinnati takes 1-0 lead over Wranglers in Kelly Cup Finals
- Tonight's racing at The Bullring canceled
- Schmidt's driver misses out on Indy Lights victory
- Contamination for sale
- Teens lag on seat-belt use
- A promise made ...
- Other countries ahead of U.S. in energy race
- Candidates’ wives not immune to criticism
- On the president, golf and freedom
- Pacman pays debts; case to be dropped
- Bridge over troubled water
- Vegas' White House hope
- Ultimate Fighting Championship 84, ‘Ill Will’
- Budgeting: County heeds, state bleeds
- The Elevator
Friday, May 23
- Legislature finally approves Gibbons' budget cuts (UPDATED)
- Seale asks governments to show him the money
- Stratosphere pays off disputed sports bet
- Sexual assault suspect arrested in California
- Ralston or O’Reilly?
- Two young Democrats know how to rake in bucks
- Noose in Boulder City classroom
- Weather service warns motorists traveling to Mount Charelston
- Washoe DA disagrees with SOS on term limits
- Pacman pays debt; D.A. dropping criminal case
- Cool weather, showers open Memorial Day weekend; chance of showers throughout weekend
- A show down on the Strip
- UNLV's Buddy system to end?
- "Love" goes on at Cinevegas 10
- What could "Humpy" Wheeler bring to NASCAR?
- Emergency budget meeting convenes
- Mayors make wager over hockey tourney
- Henderson's Schmidt places four cars in Indy Lights race
- A new push for oil
- Torture and the FBI
- Patients deserve to know
- Superdelegates belie principle of equality
- Obama’s youthful backers are naive
- Shining example of energy independence
- The shrapnel flying over term limits
- Takin’ it to the (Alabama) turf
- Jeff Haney finds strong evidence the disgraced former NBA ref ensnared in a betting scandal was exerting major influence over games he officiated
- Ensign sticks to principle on money for GI Bill, health scare
- Gambling debt chases Pacman Jones
- The initiative process in Nevada is a mess
- Lenders give Herbst Gaming more time to repay debts
- NLV apartment plan yanked after neighbors’ protest
- Fall-safety requirement may get OSHA enforcement
- What's private, in public
- Report: Illegal immigrants contribute billions to state
Thursday, May 22
- LVCVA responds to Adelson's response on petitions
- Memorial Day weekend, Venetian style
- From First to Last
- Foxy Brown
- Old 97's
- 3 Doors Down
- Scarlett Johansson
- Potosi fire 90 percent contained, but firefighters wary of wind
- Work out those daddy issues
- Filching the Funny
- Blue Rodeo
- ‘Free’ for All
- White Rabbits
- USA basketball training camps announced
- Bayou 'cue
- Lake Mead Marina fire causes $1 million damages
- Woman found dead in motel room
- Woodbury: Blindsided by Miller
- Barkley's (alleged) Rockets garment bag gets new owner
- Try Again
- Dust off that trophy shelf, Celine!
- My brother is an only child
- Then she found me
- Love Downtown!
- It's not the years, it's the mileage
- No country for bad filmmaking?
- Adelson's attorney argues petition requirements unconstituional
- Crimes and misdemeanors
- Las Vegas closer to getting a second NASCAR Cup race?
- Mayor Goodman makes Wranglers wager for Ohio River
- UFC exposure makes Las Vegas band Hard 8 a good bet to hit it big
- Hostel Environment
- Making an odd first impression
- Memorial Day brings house-heads and headliners
- A failed approach
- Wildfire season upon us
- The hardest word
- Increase fuel efficiency and domestic supply
- Speak up if you see improper flag display
- Put an end to sex handbillers on Strip
- Educate students for life after school
- Glorified jock posters or art, project pretty cool
- The price for fighting: Schools may owe millions
- The art in UFC’s violence
- Library District has fallout with its Friends
- Ron Kantowski says high-sticking in June is just weird, but Wranglers will take it
- Despite cheap shot, ECHL no goon league, former chief says
- Wilderness road upgrade has to wait
- What could be less Vegas?
- Slots quiet as Macau observes 3 minutes of silence
- Why stores still sprout in valley
- Barkley settles up with DA
- Uncertainty surrounding term limits
- Paul supporter offers to pay for state GOP convention
- Peggy Plots Your Planets
- Ranking is Rank
- The Help Desk
- Pimp My Puppet
- Dream Zone
- The little (soon-to-be-big) college that could
- Nightlife Value Menu
- Speedy delivery
- Porn free
- Sex and This City
- Tourment Trance Moon Nightclub $12
Wednesday, May 21
- Ivanpah airport opening further delayed to 2018 or later
- Ivanpah airport opening further delayed to 2018 or later
- And now let's play The Price is Right!
- Correcting an Institution
- Wranglers send-off slated for Thursday morning at 11
- Band-aid beats amputation
- Police name suspect in sexual assault, robbery, kidnapping
- Winds bring dust, cooler temperatures
- Prosecutors closing the case against Charles Barkley
- Fire closes Route 160 between Vegas, Pahrump (UPDATED)
- Blown away at the luau
- Three schools dismiss students due to power outage
- U.S. Olympic basketball heads to Las Vegas
- An initiative mess
- It’s really elementary
- Politics and clean air
- Yucca Mountain unknowns will sink project
- Nuke threat most effective deterrent
- Voters responsible for energy crisis
- Obama-Edwards team unbeatable
- Teachers-gaming deal substituting for policy
- Jeff Haney, at an IRS seminar, explores the debate over expanding legal sports betting
- Nevada again will be presidential battleground, pundits say
- Leave the wild burro be
- Chapel owners say ordinance is a win-lose
- Mencia says: If you don’t like me, don’t come to my shows
- Wynn says he was obligated to try to recoup debt
- Cher and Cher-alike
- Track suffers when big boys are on TV
- No neighbors, no neighborhood
- The best plan often goes awry
- Yucca father changes his tune
Tuesday, May 20
- Wranglers prepping for first ECHL Kelly Cup Finals
- UNLV hoops trip Down Under nets $72,000 in golf tourney
- Sketches and thoughts on Saturday's NASCAR All-Star race
- Assemblywoman Francis Allen arrested
- Is this political?
- In Vegas, are we what we Netflix?
- Worker killed at downtown construction site is identified
- Climb Into Tomorrow's Slot Machine
- LVCVA, unions challenge validity of Adelson petitions
- Missing boy found in California
- Chipping away at safety
- GIs have earned this
- Expand mental health aid
- It’s time to begin reducing oil dependence
- Human qualities
- Real losers in energy crisis are Americans
- If Clinton loses, Obama our best bet
- Eastern import catching on
- SEIU disputes outcome of nurses’ vote, gaining time
- The winners and losers
- Songwriter, singer finds the right mix for his life
- Foreclosure fallout
- Teachers give up gaming tax bid in deal
- Barkley says he’s repaid debt; DA hasn’t seen check
- Doctor driven to start clinic for the uninsured
- Henderson museum plans taking shape
- Taxi regulator fought for, got, cameras in area cabs
- Strip’s vaunted condo-hotels losing their luster
Monday, May 19
- Another record-breaking day, then cooler weather
- NJ senator fights for legalized sports betting
- Joining the 100-degree club
- Why the SOS challenged candidates on term limits
- Whose term is it anyhow?
- Initiative petition signatures submitted (UPDATED)
- Construction worker dies in downtown accident
- Cut the Greenwash!
- Wranglers vs. Cyclones
- Record breaking temperature sends Las Vegas into summer heat wave
- A conflicted court
- Oil trumps food
- Fighting Alzheimer’s
- GOP oil men responsible for energy crisis
- Campaigns take focus away from Iraq
- Democrats insecure about security issue
- Let’s try rationing, and not just of gas
- The feds have all but sanctioned it ...
- Just what sports needs: More Triple Crowns
- Well-prepared students quiz governor’s staff chief
- Technically, they’re a success
- More commuters taking bus route
- Gas ‘peakers’ set to kick in when weather sizzles
- Inspiration of Dusty Springfield helps land a gig in Vegas
- Post-9/11 cuts may have gone too far
- Organizer’s tactics test limits, even for workers
- This magician’s also a card
Sunday, May 18
- Are Republicans Drilling for Defeat?
- Las Vegas economy looks like busted flush
- Nevada historic preservation recognized
- Observations from Saturday night’s NASCAR Sprint All-Star race at Lowe’s Motor Speedway
- A deal is a deal
- Working against consumers
- We should do better
- Changing our lifestyle will change gas prices
- Bush’s legacy will be one of failure
- You can’t equate gas prices to Europe’s
- The art of entrepreneurship
- A Nevada primer for Campaign ’08 races and beyond
- There was much speculation late Friday ...
- Frustration, anger among Republicans growing
- Brian Greenspun gives his mom the second-best gift ever
- Standoff over landfill closure possible
- Calls for unity draw different answers from Clinton voters
- No stopping history for tourists
- Project required collaboration, old-fashioned digging
- License plates can help save history
- Looking into the nuclear abyss
- Interpreting protections away
- How Vegas became a city like no other
Saturday, May 17
- Report assesses blame in hepatitis C cases
- Obama comes out winner in Nevada
- Charles Barkley Owes Wynn Las Vegas $400,000
- Listing in name only?
- Sparking interest in science
- Maestro or machine?
- ‘Party planning’ is the new basket weaving
- The more energy solutions the merrier
- Crack down on those not paying taxes
- You have to marvel at Mayor Oscar Goodman’s ability to ...
- Seven-time driver at Indy will see it on TV this year
- Fire settles casino’s fate for good
- Suspended judge can’t even get out of jury duty
- UNLV building project has shot at funding, even in budget crunch
- Happier days for Democrats
- The Elevator: UNLV edition
Friday, May 16
- Drink up a deal with a free margarita at lunch at the South Point
- CityCenter will not all open at once after all
- Boyd may build casino in Henderson
- If Woodbury can't run, others stand ready
- Sequoia Holmes makes Houston roster in WNBA
- Woodbury re-election bid faces legal challenge (UPDATED)
- Wayniac alert! Wayne Newton to play a week at MGM Grand this summer
- Byrd big favorite in tonight's fight
- Odds favor Big Brown at Preakness, tossup on Triple Crown
- Cher fans are the real show
- Fire restrictions imposed early on public lands in Nevada
- Opposition surrounds health care deal
- Gibbons approves toll road proposal
- Compounding a disaster
- Looming questions
- Helping rape victims
- Drilling in wildlife refuge avoids real issue
- Arctic drilling, research both needed
- Outfit cars so they can't speed
- Was Eight Belles treated inhumanely?
- Can’t accuse either party of sanity
- UNLV nursing student earns one of state’s first Ph.D.s in field
- Stratosphere’s refusal to honor expired ticket gives sports books another black eye
- Ballet’s renowned pointe man
- Sun wins award for top newspaper Web site
- Already, CityCenter’s scale, complexity unparalleled
- Army reservist throws early hat in NLV City Council ring
- Virtuoso introducing America to classical music on the accordion
- One tough guy, even when he lost
- Kidney transplant outcomes fell short
- Barkley says he’ll repay Wynn gambling debt
- A shoulder, or two, to lean on
- All this talk about raising gaming taxes
Thursday, May 15
- Why flags are flying at half-staff
- Porter joins Dems in supporting beefed-up GI Bill
- UMC employee arrested for theft from hospital
- Boulder City: A gateway to the past
- Federal report reveals more details about Las Vegas hepatitis outbreak
- They openly say they are NUTS
- Las Vegas Sun named top newspaper Web site in nation
- Celebs take shelter: Kathy Griffin heading toward Vegas
- UNLV students safe in China
- Magic Kingdom performs a little magic in a dreary economy
- Minor quake shakes northwest Reno
- Movie on Binion's death to premiere in September
- Sea (Stone) change
- A Gamble in the Sand
- A gambling world away from the Strip
- 'Bugsy' Siegel - The mob's man in Vegas
- Elvis has yet to leave the building
- The other Vegas
- Las Vegas Showgirls: Show and (a lot to) tell
- Conscience of the community
- Bill that transformed a city
- Fremont Street: A block with experience
- Boulder City: A gateway to the past
- Desert highway turned destination
- Home of Sin City's original sin
- The many colors of Mayor Oscar Goodman
- Tying the knot with ease or Elvis
- Las Vegas weather can be a gamble
- 'Eighth Wonder of the World'
- Rat Pack reveled in Vegas; revered by the world
- Howard Hughes: A revolutionary recluse
- Mob Ties
- Siegfried & Roy: Las Vegas' magic duo
- Atomic testing burned its mark
- The highs and lows of the World Series of Poker
- Where the fighter pilot calls home
- Wayne Newton owned the Strip
- Desert oasis drying up
- Battle-born Henderson now 'A Place to Call Home'
- Showtime: How Sin City evolved into 'The Entertainment Capital of the World'
- Upholding dress code
- Operation Iraqi Corruption
- Mileage miracle
- This Democratic race isn’t over
- Big Oil witch hunt all for political gain
- Despoiling refuge for oil is futile
- Bush’s sacrifice of golf a travesty
- Porter: OK tax for GI Bill I support? I’ll see
- A guide to Las Vegas Historic Preservation Month
- Blunders yield bonanza
- Take Five: Tyler Mosienko
- Embrace the role of the villain
- Don’t mourn what is gone; celebrate what has survived
- I get my shot at Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid
- The Wynn sues Barkley, claims $400,000 gambling debts unpaid
- Landfill decree avoids big issue
- Dropping out to go to work
- Whatever she had, Cher's still got it
- Petition seeks OK for hemp in energy research
Wednesday, May 14
- Secretary of state challenges filing, creates first term limits case
- Shots fired at Cheyenne High School
- Yucca license application expected in early June
- Heck Returns Home
- Politico: Dems tying GOP candidates to unflattering portrayals of Adelson
- AG backs up secretary of state on recall petitions
- McCain will be in Reno on May 28, feted by city's elected, business elite
- IRS, Department of Labor complaints filed against Sen. Hardy
- And you wonder who pays for those expensive casinos
- Who's better: Kurt Busch or Kyle Busch?
- Fire destroys Boulder Highway casino (UPDATED)
- CityCenter pushes ahead, despite economy
- Surge in transit
- Paying for education
- Joe Egan, 1955-2008
- We’re all responsible for gas dependency
- Republicans also reject green energy
- Democrats should now back Obama
- Gov. Jim Gibbons’ inner circle fawning over a frazzled boss
- Goodman changes face on state’s top job
- Voters, pick your fix for gas prices
- Urban League takes a shot at developing its own priorities
- Theater makes the man
- Jeff Haney on New England’s unprecedented over/under line for season wins at one sports book, and why there are worthy arguments for each side
- In anti-tax Nevada, policy can be pawned
- Letter to his boss faults Clark
- Rogers giveth and taketh away, until he gets what he wants
- The globe-trotting basketball
- Desai, colleagues may take the Fifth, stalling lawsuits for years
- Nevada not a progressive state?
Tuesday, May 13
- Wranglers win in OT
- Darlington should have 2 Sprint Cup races
- The Good Fight at Wolfgang Puck's
- Police hunt two suspects in April murder
- Sheldon Adelson questioned by Israeli police
- Democratic lawmakers write letters, send out news release
- Reid to Lieberman: That's a second demerit
- Saddle Cove Road closes for water pipeline construction
- Neighbors say 'no surprise' to northwest Las Vegas murder-suicide
- Titus files today for congressional race
- Klieg light on OSHA
- Mining the Grand Canyon
- Hardly an advantage
- Americans need to shed their gas addiction
- Solar parking covers aren’t yet economical
- Why riding the bus can be a pleasure
- His priority: Protect rural water
- Yucca foe fought till his death — and beyond
- Guitars & Saxes adds feminine touch to cool jazz
- Comedy is magician’s secret
- Jack Sheehan on the rise of glass ceiling-shatterer Cindy Kiser Murphey, head of New York-New York
- Plan: Remove toxins, build homes
- Vegas slump hits Station Casinos
- Board cuts its travel budget, a little more than asked
- Bearded look cuts no ice
- Despite few layoffs, workers feel fear
- Doesn’t he have enough problems
Monday, May 12
- Wranglers jump out on Utah, 5-2, in conference finals opener
- Dead infant found in Las Vegas casino trash can
- Should She Stay or Should She Go?
- Big cat the answer in Carson City sheep deaths
- A win for homeowners
- Disaster in waiting
- Unfit for combat?
- Government must tighten belt just like we do
- Obama unassailable on issues that matter
- Blame Democrats for high price of energy
- Over the last month or so Freedom’s Watch ...
- NLV’s annexation of industrial park expected to start within weeks
- Disney takes another pass at Vegas with filming of ‘Witch Mountain’
- Osmonds, Osmonds everywhere
- Despite slowdown, casino giant spending big
- A night of classic country, coming from Ireland
- United Way redistributing wealth to local charities
- CityCenter signals a change in the very nature of development on the Strip
- Where credit is due
- Story, music of ‘Jersey Boys’ pop the lid off memories
- Officers are people, too
- One man’s theories on Vegas’ economy, then and now
- Compared with ‘The Locust,’ she eats like a bird
- Last week’s Indiana primary brings back hometown memories
Sunday, May 11
- Rush makes time stand still at Mandalay Bay
- Not so magnanimous
- Energy all around us
- Public health problem
- Why workplace safety can’t be understated
- America is no longer the envy of the world
- No single cause of overpopulation
- Several games of political chicken converging at one intersection
- The first week of filing is over ...
- New-route noise lights up airport hotline
- With that pay, no way, many would-be graduate students tell UNLV
- Keeping the heat on OSHA
- Intent on her doctoral dream
- A class's varied views of Vegas
- Brian Greenspun has a proposal for a ticket to unite Democrats
- First, Democrats wanted clout on cuts; now they’re not sure
- Eye-to-eye ends with the economy
- After public misfire on polygamy, Reid acts to help those he blasted
Saturday, May 10
- Observations from Saturday’s Dodge Challenger 500 at Darlington Raceway
- Las Vegas Billboards Advertise Fast Cash, Cheap Thrills
- Toni Braxton's Las Vegas show remains dark
- State now facing still more cuts
- Ditch the flip-flops
- The lost bees
- Making student-athletes
- Heller’s bill has sensible voting requirements
- Address greed, not overpopulation
- Don’t subsidize the foolhardy
- Chuck Muth doesn’t understand ...
- Clinic patients’ choice: Recourse or privacy
- Fact and fiction collide
- Candidates for board include insiders
- Fremont East shows signs of regaining momentum
- The academics of party planning
- The Elevator
Friday, May 9
- Services set for comedian David Swan
- No surprise: visitor numbers continue to soften
- Gaming revenue, especially slots, continue their decline
- New hepatitis cases draw national media interest
- Abridging voting rights
- Ending credit deception?
- Help fight hunger
- Safety, building inspections are full-time jobs
- Obama has history
- Local hospital’s care, personnel were great
- The Perfect Storm
- Beyond numbers and into the unquantifiable
- Las Vegas ambassador extraordinaire
- CNA tips status quo, but doesn’t oust SEIU
- Council finds soft spot for needy
- CityCenter still selling condos despite slowdown
- Safe Bets
- Bringing players back into game
- As zany as ever, Mayor Oscar Goodman is.
- Nevada Republicans bolt party line, support housing package
- Sun journalists win Best of the West awards
- Drama of biblical tale elevates music of ‘King David’
- Union pushed; Trop fell
Thursday, May 8
- Musicians Union official recovering after near-fatal traffic accident
- Down from the mountain
- Young @ Heart
- Redbelt
- The cowboy has lots of friends
- What Happens in Vegas
- The AG gives a green light and a lawmaker says: "Let's go!"
- A sickly sweet confection
- Cutting $800 million from next session's budget? Here are the documents
- Dying for Sport?
- Larger than life
- Mock the vote
- Tricks of the trade
- Working his way back to you
- Do you feel a draft?
- On pins and Needles
- Something we didn’t plan for
- Enhanced GI bill meeting resistance
- The Help Desk
- A walk to remember
- Kyle Busch is the Dennis the Menace of NASCAR
- Pair of CSN pitchers from '03 title season doing well
- Vegas prepares for Her Madgesty
- Comedian David Swan loses battle to cancer
- Health District says 77 potential hepatitis C cases identified
- 3.8 quake rattles Reno area
- Outrageous stonewalling
- Another mess at UMC
- Prices at the pump
- Overpopulation drains world water supplies
- Tyrants responsible for world famines
- 55-mph speed limit will save gas, money
- Board chief fires back, backs off
- Has he made the grade?
- Overcome with the power of the green movement
- True sign of the times: Vegas tips are slipping
- Transgender killer torn with guilt, searching still for identity
- Divorce as political spectacle
- 30 years later, still hungry
- Eclectic musical mix makes familiar sound
- Opening act has Las Vegas spirit with British accent
- Texas tourist hits $21 million Megabucks jackpot at Palms
Wednesday, May 7
- Dirk Arthur's home, habitat for his wild animals
- Findlay Prep guard Gutierrez signs with California
- Yucca Mountain attorney dies of stomach cancer
- Kambala, 647th in a heavyweight ranking, fights Friday
- And the sign said: If you're not in business, you need not apply
- Hit Bottom?
- Police seek information on man stabbed to death near Sunset Park
- Countrywide suspends home equity credit lines in Las Vegas
- A case for openness
- Voters in the dark
- No amnesty for deadbeats
- Let’s chart our nation back to greatness
- Don’t blame Obama for Wright’s rantings
- Despite sour ending, conference a success
- Regressive tax system won’t work
- Jon Ralston feels their pain, but would ask Jim and Dawn: Why now?
- Peddling medical getaways
- Retired teachers’ health plan pact reached
- Community champion shows with pluck, little guy can win
- UMC thefts on overtime alleged
- They’ll always be champs
- For Dina Titus, it's good to be anointed
- Better baseball betting
- Medical board refuses to release Desai complaints
- Adelson won’t relinquish fight to block Palazzo club
- Top ‘popera’ names in Vegas lights
- Through the valley of darkness
Tuesday, May 6
- Obama takes North Carolina, Clinton barely holds onto Indiana
- Self-sabotage on "Idol"?
- House committee targets VA on suicides
- A sad farewell to one of the "Jersey Boys"
- New generation of titans emerging in Las Vegas
- MGM Mirage blames profit dips on Monte Carlo fire
- OSHA needs help
- Too much secrecy
- Deceiving the public
- How could we have been so wrong about war?
- Mortgage bailout unfair to majority
- Obama changes tune on minister too late
- Let’s vote on issues, not trivial sidelights
- Nurses unions’ showdown starts today
- Seven high schools could start drug tests
- So Gov. Jim Gibbons chooses Cinco de Mayo, of all days, to propose an amnesty plan …
- The upside of anger: Neighbors meeting neighbors
- Sideshow stars fondly recognized
- Planned coal plant gives up its water source
- Given $50,000, he decides to run
- They have overcome
- Teamsters may undercut members
- ‘Jersey Boys’ is all about the music
Monday, May 5
- Reid tells the Daily Show: We're in a holding pattern
- Trace of rain in Las Vegas Valley
- Tropicana Entertainment makes money but still files for bankruptcy
- Tropicana to seek protection from bankruptcy
- Pedestrian death slows I-15
- Wranglers welcome nine-day playoff layoff
- Gibbons proposes tax amnesty program
- Attorney in Nevada's Yucca case is seriously ill
- Family of teen found in storm drain offers reward
- Judge seals governor's divorce records
- Attorney: Dawn got Jim where he is today
- The Company of Tomorrow
- Vegas oddsmaker picks Archuleta as "Idol"
- Group seeks to preserve resting place of hundreds
- $1 billion boondoggle
- An unappetizing review
- Keep those guns packed
- Issues surrounding Obama now are superficial
- Overpopulation puts a strain on Earth
- Economy a lot worse than Bush, Cheney say
- So here was the lead paragraph ...
- Ross’ green light has shades of gray
- It’s Barkley’s bag (maybe), but it doesn’t say much about him
- Mischief-making blockers are signature gatherers’ bane
- Music company scraps plan for theater space in historic building
- Juleps, giant hats and cigar smoke
- Businesses scurry to build defenses for possible unionizing onslaught
- Staging a comeback
- Revamped Pogo’s will be a cleaner place, maybe more musical
- Porter’s nudge greenward
Sunday, May 4
- Nirvana Bleach Rocks
- Canadian teen finds Love in Las Vegas
- A greener Exxon Mobil?
- FDA in bad shape
- A real difference
- McCain is the best choice for our nation
- Rebate checks are a flimsy Band-Aid
- Air traffic must catch up with the times
- Honoring mobsters is the wrong way to go
- Blame GOP for the downfall of education
- Here’s a novel idea, Senator — a sequel
- Everywhere, they are talking politics
- Rent hike redux at Cactus Ridge
- Congress goes extra mile for homeowners
- Brian Greenspun knows a leader when he sees one
- In politics, spoils go to those who have fun
- On safety, we could learn from NYC
- A coal-fired discussion
- If you don’t think some hunters have issues ...
Saturday, May 3
- Observations from Saturday's Crown Royal 400 at Richmond International Raceway
- Life at the top in Las Vegas
- CSN baseball wins 15th in a row to claim conference crown
- New lead in missing North Las Vegas girl
- Voters left in the lurch
- The public’s health
- No more delays
- Energy crisis beyond leaders’ comprehension
- Ignoring Clinton votes is just plain wrong
- Fallen heroes deserve special recognition
- Now that the (mostly) subterranean drama ...
- Planning official up in arms over putdowns of Las Vegas
- Surprise! Strip’s an urban place
- The Elevator
- Mending, one day at a time
- Prosecutors drop charges against Selimaj
- Longtime school official to run for board
Friday, May 2
- A 6-3 victory over Alaska puts Wranglers in first semifinals
- Regents have big wish list but expect little from lawmakers
- US Airways spokesman says some, not all LV flights cancelled
- High school baseball teams receive high rankings
- Gibbons files for divorce, asks back in to mansion
- The wide-ranging lawsuit in The Great Hepatitis Scare of 2008
- The son of a cabbie wants to be a limo mogul
- UNLV math prof to run for State Assembly seat
- IndyCar vs. NASCAR
- Fire shuts down Lake Mead Parkway near U.S. 95 (UPDATED)
- Together in the dark, listening to the radio
- Vegas Gay Pride Parade glows in the dark
- Festivities abound at annual brothel event
- Whooping cough worry leads to vaccinations
- Man pleads not guilty to federal charges in ricin case
- Halverson to court: Don't make me run this time!
- Parks wants Titus' seat
- Gibbons to ask Fossett widow to help cover search cost
- Bush’s same old rhetoric
- Mortgage changes needed
- Billable hours?
- Why overpopulation isn’t the real problem
- Clinton’s war vote disqualifies her
- Obama would best answer 3 a.m. call
- So now that a judge has decided yet another initiative ...
- Jon Ralston lauds Gibbons’ spending commission, with a few conditions
- No crossing over
- State agent quits amid missing evidence inquiry
- Jurors, don’t expect any shut-eye in these courts
- Local government safety role to get a look
- Wisdom went with the words at Native Son
- Expo to introduce best-known, less-known arts groups
- Cruel world, unusual spirit
- Our concentration of resorts is cited as economic model
- Sorry, Oscar, you’re wrong
Thursday, May 1
- Alaska ekes out wild OT victory over Wranglers
- Gondo's heart transplant doesn't go as planned
- Titus' congressional run alters others' political plans
- Fire in Henderson home displaces 11 people
- Lawsuit filed in hepatitis case
- Wynn Resorts first-quarter profit drops 20 percent
- Alleged shooter says Pacman Jones framed him
- Police await Wisconsin DNA test in missing girl case
- World Series of Poker moves final table to November
- Carrie Underwood "liquored up in Vegas"
- Reid offers a back story to his story
- Las Vegas Sands Corp. posts first-quarter loss of $11.2 million
- Richards appointed president of CSN
- Gaming stocks down in April
- Governor expected to bill Steve Fossett's widow for search
- Experts confused by quakes
- Give OSHA more teeth
- Win for open government
- Aviation disgrace
- Setting kids on right path starts at home
- What exactly has Bush accomplished?
- Obama, Clinton not in McCain’s league
- On Iraq war, don’t blame Congress
- Disputed charter school can’t be barred
- Losing ground
- He may fold ’em to just be Dad
- Fixed-game drama uses Rebels clip
- Richards CSN’s likely pick, pleasing higher ed chief
- Rep. Shelley Berkley has an opponent?
- It’s over, but what a way to go
- Motocross weekend
- Desai tried but failed in car transaction
- Poor people’s advocate may need a little help itself