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  • Nevada getting $83,000 in Skechers shoe settlement

    Las Vegas Sun Stories: All Sun Headlines
    16 May 2012 | 12:35 pm
    Nevada is getting nearly $83,000 in a national settlement over Skechers' claims that their fitness shoes helped users shed pounds and tone muscles.

  • Nevada getting $83,000 in Skechers shoe settlement

    Las Vegas Sun Stories: Business and Economy
    16 May 2012 | 12:35 pm
    Nevada is getting nearly $83,000 in a national settlement over Skechers' claims that their fitness shoes helped users shed pounds and tone muscles.

  • Henderson to tap reserve funds to fill budget gap, avoiding layoffs

    Las Vegas Sun Stories: City Hall
    16 May 2012 | 12:30 am
    The Henderson City Council authorized the use of reserve funds Tuesday night to plug a $13.5 million deficit in next year’s budget.

  • Crossroads launches new ad in Nevada attacking Obama

    Las Vegas Sun Stories: Politics
    16 May 2012 | 11:56 am
    Crossroads GPS, a political nonprofit co-founded by Karl Rove, has launched a month-long ad buy in Nevada slamming President Obama for what they call broken promises.

  • Graduation is first example high school senior wants to set for her daughter

    Las Vegas Sun Stories: Education
    13 May 2012 | 4:00 am
    Evaleen Diaz plods up three flights of stairs at Western High School as rushing students course around her. At the top, the 18-year-old lets out a huge sigh. It is still early in the morning, but Diaz is spent. She’s pregnant. The news came as a surprise to her in December, when she was preparing for her last chance to pass the Nevada High School Proficiency Exam, a necessary step in earning her diploma. And if she’s going to provide the kind of life she wants for her daughter, Isabella, she needs that diploma.
 
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    Las Vegas Sun Stories: Business and Economy

  • Nevada getting $83,000 in Skechers shoe settlement

    16 May 2012 | 12:35 pm
    Nevada is getting nearly $83,000 in a national settlement over Skechers' claims that their fitness shoes helped users shed pounds and tone muscles.

  • One year after it closed, can Sahara site become a symbol of Las Vegas' rebound?

    16 May 2012 | 4:00 am
    Rob Oseland heard plenty of skepticism about some of the projects he helped create along the Las Vegas Strip. The Bellagio was too expensive. The Wynn and Encore were too far north, away from the heart of the Strip. Those resorts became some of the most successful and glamorous along the Strip, but that hasn't stopped Oseland from hearing similar doubts about his latest endeavor — transforming the old Sahara into SLS Las Vegas.

  • Harry Reid chastises JPMorgan over $2 billion trading loss

    16 May 2012 | 4:00 am
    Sen. Harry Reid has harsh words when it comes to how JPMorgan — once the administration’s favorite poster child of a bank that wasn’t big and bad — lost $2 billion in a trading mistake meant to offset its own risk.

  • New website connects wannabe travelers with funding source ... and maybe some romance

    16 May 2012 | 4:00 am
    Want to travel the world but don’t have enough money? Have a vacation planned but no one to go with? A new online dating website launched by a Las Vegas-based entrepreneur is working to bring these two groups of people together to create some memories and maybe even a romantic connection.

  • Courageous first move could bring success to north portion of the Strip

    16 May 2012 | 4:00 am
    Someone had to be first. Some guy in a hut had to have the courage to drink the juice of fermented grapes, and good things followed. Likewise, the north end of the Strip needed someone to have the courage to invest. Now that SBE Entertainment of Los Angeles and private equity group Stockbridge Real Estate are putting money into the shuttered Sahara, perhaps the 20-teens will eventually be known as the era when the action moved north on the Strip.
 
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    Las Vegas Sun Stories: Education

  • Graduation is first example high school senior wants to set for her daughter

    13 May 2012 | 4:00 am
    Evaleen Diaz plods up three flights of stairs at Western High School as rushing students course around her. At the top, the 18-year-old lets out a huge sigh. It is still early in the morning, but Diaz is spent. She’s pregnant. The news came as a surprise to her in December, when she was preparing for her last chance to pass the Nevada High School Proficiency Exam, a necessary step in earning her diploma. And if she’s going to provide the kind of life she wants for her daughter, Isabella, she needs that diploma.

  • Recent rulings in teacher salary disputes put arbitration on Legislature's radar screen

    13 May 2012 | 4:00 am
    A budget is not just a plan to spend money, it’s a statement of priorities — a paper-and-ink manifesto of what an elected official or board believes is important.

  • Teenage parents, trying to graduate, face enormous challenges

    13 May 2012 | 4:00 am
    Icalynn Gamble had quit going to school last fall, overwhelmed by the responsibilities of being an 18-year-old mother and dejected about her chances of graduating. That’s when a parade of dignitaries — including Clark County School District Superintendent Dwight Jones, state Sen. Steven Horsford and new Chaparral High School Principal Dave Wilson — knocked on her door on a Saturday morning and persuaded her to return.

  • UNLV graduates first class in high-flying new entertainment engineering program

    13 May 2012 | 4:00 am
    Emily Black was flying high when she received diploma from UNLV on Saturday. Literally.

  • As school year winds down, Chaparral students grade the turnaround

    12 May 2012 | 4:00 am
    Chaparral High School, previously identified as one of Clark County School District’s five worst-performing schools, is wrapping up its first year of a turnaround effort to improve student achievement and campus morale. On prom night, we asked seniors how they thought the year has gone.
 
 
 
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    Las Vegas Sun Stories: Editorials

  • An unfruitful policy

    13 May 2012 | 4:00 am
    Reno, the “Biggest Little City in the World,” is home to one of the biggest tech companies in the world. Not that anyone would notice.

  • Getting education right

    11 May 2012 | 4:00 am
    Clark County School District officials are due to present a revised budget next week, reworking numbers after an arbitrator ruled in favor of the teachers in a contract dispute.

  • Politics, the law and Yucca Mountain

    6 May 2012 | 4:00 am
    A federal appeals court last week heard the request of South Carolina and Washington, which want a court order to require the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to take action to move the dump forward.

  • It’s not about Las Vegas

    29 Apr 2012 | 4:01 am
    With the Senate moving toward reining in government-sponsored conferences like the GSA’s infamous spend-fest at M Resort, maybe those who’ve been blaming Las Vegas for the scandal can finally knock it off.

  • Mockery of the court

    26 Apr 2012 | 4:01 am
    Imagine being hauled into court, led to the witness stand, being sworn in and facing an aggressive, adversarial attorney.
 
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    Las Vegas Sun Stories: Sports

  • Anthony Bennett's success could mean big things for UNLV's future with Findlay Prep players

    16 May 2012 | 4:00 am
    Anthony Bennett made it official Tuesday. Bennett, a 6-foot-8, 240-pound forward at Henderson’s Findlay Prep, signed a letter of intent to take his skills 12 miles north to UNLV’s campus. He’s the third Pilot graduate to make that trip.

  • Everblades score 7 unanswered goals to stun Wranglers in Game 2 of Finals

    16 May 2012 | 2:25 am
    The Las Vegas Wranglers were greeted with a standing ovation from the 5,569 fans at the Orleans Arena Tuesday after racing out to a 2-0 first-period lead over the Everblades in Game 2 of the Kelly Cup Finals.

  • 'Korean Zombie' turns in Fight of the Year candidate at UFC on FUEL TV 3

    15 May 2012 | 11:00 pm
    In two UFC wins last year, “The Korean Zombie” Chan Sung Jung arguably pulled off both the Submission of the Year and the Knockout of the Year. Jung may have proven victorious in 2012’s Fight of the Year Tuesday night in Fairfax, Va. Jung submitted heavily-favored Dustin Poirier with a d’arce choke at 1:07 of the fourth round in the main event of UFC on FUEL TV 3.

  • Fans out in full force to create championship environment, help Wranglers take first game in Kelly Cup Finals

    15 May 2012 | 4:05 am
    Las Vegas sports fans are easy to figure out. If the Southern Nevada team is winning, locals will flock to home games. If the team is marginal or below average, expect the attendance numbers to drop. Whether it is the beloved UNLV basketball team or the lightly followed UNLV football program, if a winning product is on the field, there’s a good chance the local fan base will be on the bandwagon.

  • Wranglers hold on late, top Florida 2-1 in Kelly Cup Finals opener

    15 May 2012 | 4:04 am
    One game down. Three to go. The Las Vegas Wranglers battled Monday until the final seconds of regulation to preserve a 2-1 victory against Florida Everblades at the Orleans Arena in the first game of a best-of-seven-game Kelly Cup Finals series. Florida out-shot Las Vegas 33-23, but Las Vegas goalie Joe Fallon continued his hot play with 32 saves to help the Wranglers — 12-2 in the postseason and riding a five-game winning streak — inch closer to the title.
 
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    Las Vegas Sun Stories: High School Sports

  • Coronado big man Louder finds spot at Jacksonville State University

    14 May 2012 | 10:53 pm
    Most youth basketball players growing up in Southern Nevada dream of getting a chance to play at the Thomas & Mack Center. Coronado High senior Michael Louder will get that opportunity in November. Louder recently committed to Jacksonville State University of Alabama after visiting the school last week

  • Foothill's Tyler Morris verbally commits to San Diego State football

    14 May 2012 | 4:03 pm
    Foothill High School rising senior Tyler Morris’ college football decision wasn’t difficult. He’s that sold on San Diego State. Morris, who last fall caught 25 passes for 515 yards and eight touchdowns, verbally committed Sunday to the Aztecs. Verbal commitments are non-binding and don’t become official until signing day in February 2013. But don’t expect Morris to break his commitment.

  • How the name of Western's baseball field became a major source of team pride

    4 May 2012 | 4:00 am
    When Jeff Sylvester saw a Facebook post from Western High School alumni seeking donations for a baseball scoreboard dedicated in his brother’s memory, he made a phone call and said he’d pick up the cost. The Gregory Sylvester Memorial Field had been dedicated in the early 1980s with a small sign behind the backstop honoring the former Western player who was stabbed to death months before his senior season in 1981.

  • Panel analyzing private schools stuck in neutral without Gorman present

    3 May 2012 | 12:38 pm
    Bishop Gorman High didn’t participate in the Nevada Interscholastic Activities Association’s public school/private school committee meeting Wednesday at South Point designed to help determine the school’s future in the association, declining to fill its two spots on the panel because of the way members were selected.

  • Five from Las Vegas taken Saturday in NFL Draft; none from UNLV

    28 Apr 2012 | 4:11 pm
    After two days of waiting to hear their names called in the NFL Draft, five players with ties to Southern Nevada were selected on Saturday.
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    Las Vegas Sun Stories: UNLV Men's Basketball

  • Anthony Bennett's success could mean big things for UNLV's future with Findlay Prep players

    16 May 2012 | 4:00 am
    Anthony Bennett made it official Tuesday. Bennett, a 6-foot-8, 240-pound forward at Henderson’s Findlay Prep, signed a letter of intent to take his skills 12 miles north to UNLV’s campus. He’s the third Pilot graduate to make that trip.

  • Possibilities abound: UNLV has a plethora of lineup options for 2012-13

    15 May 2012 | 4:00 am
    The months leading up to UNLV’s first practice will feel like an eternity for a lot of people, coach Dave Rice included. Last week he said he would get the team on the court that day if he could, and this was before Anthony Bennett committed.

  • The Perfect Storm: Rebels coaching staff and fans play their cards right to get Bennett

    13 May 2012 | 4:00 am
    Anthony Bennett isn’t like most top recruits. On Saturday, after a long recruiting process that finished with a month as the nation’s highest-rated uncommitted player, Findlay Prep’s Bennett kept it simple. After deciding to make a verbal commitment to UNLV over Oregon, he informed the concerned parties, including Findlay coach Mike Peck, sent out a tweet and stepped away to let the reactions fall where they may.

  • Addition of Bennett puts UNLV firmly in national spotlight next season

    12 May 2012 | 4:15 pm
    Anthony Bennett is a Rebel. Bennett, the No. 7-rated recruit in the country according to Rivals.com, made it official Saturday after trimming his list to UNLV and Oregon last weekend. A 6-foot-8, 240-pound forward from Henderson’s Findlay Prep, Bennett fills the Rebels’ most glaring hole at power forward and adds even higher expectations for a team that will likely start the 2012-13 season in the top 20, if not the top 10.

  • Rice ready for a proud Saturday as six Rebels are set to receive their degrees

    10 May 2012 | 4:00 am
    On the topic of the best non-athletic moments Dave Rice has with his student-athletes, UNLV’s men’s basketball coach doesn’t hesitate to weigh in. Because more than winning games, he says, graduation represents the most important achievement a player can gain. And on Saturday, Rice will see six of his players reach that goal.
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    Las Vegas Sun Stories: UNLV Football

  • Rice ready for a proud Saturday as six Rebels are set to receive their degrees

    10 May 2012 | 4:00 am
    On the topic of the best non-athletic moments Dave Rice has with his student-athletes, UNLV’s men’s basketball coach doesn’t hesitate to weigh in. Because more than winning games, he says, graduation represents the most important achievement a player can gain. And on Saturday, Rice will see six of his players reach that goal.

  • UNLV football to appear on national TV at least 3 times this season

    3 May 2012 | 5:10 pm
    UNLV football will play three of its 13 games on national television, according to the Mountain West national TV schedule released Thursday. The games include the season opener on Thursday, Aug. 30 against Minnesota (CBS Sports Network), a home game on Friday, Sept. 14 against Washington State (ESPN) and a road conference game on Saturday, Oct. 20 at Boise State (NBC Sports Network).

  • Rebels need the summer to try to become a team with more than potential

    1 May 2012 | 4:00 am
    The upcoming months are just as important as any stretch of time the UNLV football team will have, including the 2012 season. Without the days in the weight room, player-run practices at Rebel Park in the sweltering heat and time to further learn the playbook, UNLV doesn’t have much chance to perform better than the teams that won two games each of the last two seasons.

  • 3 UNLV football players sign with NFL teams as undrafted free agents

    30 Apr 2012 | 1:35 pm
    Three UNLV players have agreed to terms of free-agent deals with NFL teams after no Rebels were drafted for the second year in a row.

  • Navy cancels four-year series with UNLV football

    27 Apr 2012 | 3:00 pm
    Navy has canceled its four-year series with UNLV football, which was scheduled to begin with a game in Las Vegas on Oct. 11, 2014.
 
 
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    Las Vegas Sun Blogs: 'Elsewhere'

  • Vintage Vegas: rare photos of a desert boomtown

    15 May 2012 | 3:41 pm
    Of all the major destination towns in the U.S., Las Vegas might be the most perfectly, unashamedly transparent. No other city in North America, after all — and perhaps no other city in the world — has for so long been so identified with one pursuit: namely, the heart-pounding, more-often-than-not-futile hunt for the improbable, near mythic Big Score.

  • Vegas sign a tourist attraction in its own right

    15 May 2012 | 2:00 pm
    It sits along a stretch of median on the less-glamorous south end of this city's glitzy gambling Strip, a stubborn holdover from another era.

  • Bryce Harper hits first Major League career home run

    14 May 2012 | 7:53 pm
    Bryce Harper has done everything in his career fast, and now that includes the first home run trot of his career.

  • Las Vegas casinos gamble on online partners with a past

    14 May 2012 | 11:57 am
    To prime itself for the U.S. debut of legal online poker, MGM Resorts International, owner of such Las Vegas Strip monuments as the MGM Grand, the Bellagio and the Mirage, wanted a partner that knew the ropes.

  • Cantor Fitzgerald hits Las Vegas on big sports bet

    11 May 2012 | 4:07 pm
    In his ground-level office on a back street of Las Vegas, Lee Amaitis is worlds away from the 15-story building in London where he served as the second in command at Cantor Fitzgerald until 2008. Rather than looking at the Tower of London on the River Thames from his office, he now has a view of men entering and leaving Sheri's Cabaret, featuring "Hot Fully Nude Girls."
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    Las Vegas Sun Blogs: 'The Kats Report'

  • Lid closes on Pete's Dueling Piano Bar at Town Square

    15 May 2012 | 5:14 pm
    The club could not stay open, for Pete’s sake. Pete’s Dueling Piano Bar at Town Square is closing, effective as of … well, right now. A note posted on the company’s Facebook page confirms that patrons of the club have warbled “Piano Man” for the last time: “Yes, the rumors are true. We have indeed closed our doors for the last time in Town Square. We would like to thank all of you who came out and supported us over the last 2.5 years and made Pete's a truly unique experience. We will miss you all. “Furthermore, a special thanks goes out to our great hosts at Town Square, their…

  • Nathan Burton still cooking with new Flamingo contract, evening shows, engagement

    15 May 2012 | 3:05 pm
    The man who made the Microwave of Death a popular stage effect has extended his life at the Flamingo. Comic magician Nathan Burton, whose signature trick is to climb into an oversize microwave and reappear as a charred black man, has secured a two-year extension at the Flamingo Showroom beginning Memorial Day weekend. A 4 p.m. act since he opened at the hotel in April 2008, Burton is adding 7 p.m. performances Sundays and Mondays. He also will fill in during the evening when showroom headliners Donny & Marie are away touring, including a two-week stint beginning June 21. Burton, whose…

  • Liza Minnelli's short, sweet show thrills LVH crowd; Dave Perrico's band at South Point a monster

    14 May 2012 | 11:48 pm
    A rake across the scene has picked up the following: • It was Liza Minnelli at LVH on Saturday night, and it gets not much more Vegas than that. Minnelli was onstage not terribly long, about an hour, and had to sit for much of the show as she said that she was limited by leg problems. But it was still great fun, as always, to see Minnelli perform. She just sort of sings whatever springs to mind as her backing band scrambles to find the proper sheet music to perform the hastily chosen number. She called an audible and uncorked “Cabaret” about five songs in -- but all of her songs are…

  • Meet Las Vegas' latest racing sensation: Michael Gaughan

    14 May 2012 | 5:40 pm
    Michael Gaughan has always been a kind of rough-and-tumble sort. That is true whether he is donning his Resistol and Wranglers while hosting a bevy of National Finals Rodeo events at his South Point hotel-casino, or strapped snugly into an old Dodge Ram and tearing across the Mexico and Southern California desert. Unafraid of having his 69-year-old body rattled like an oversized maraca, Gaughan won his class -- Vintage, appropriately enough -- a few weeks ago at the 2012 NORRA Mexican 1000 off-road race. The four-day event wrapped May 2. The stages were from Mexicali to Bahia de Los Angeles…

  • A bit of trickery from would-be magician Joey Fatone

    14 May 2012 | 3:39 pm
    Joey Fatone says he can make it disappear. He was talking about my business card. This is the noteworthy networking tool that features my caricature, Li’l Johnny Kats, colorfully inked across the front. During a dinner party the other night, Fatone snapped the card out of my hand and, in one swift movement, made it vanish. Fatone performed this trick several times before I thought, “Hey, this might make a good YouTube clip!” So I recorded a few seconds of video on my iPhone. Most famous for his years as a member of ’N Sync (which made the composure of millions of young women…
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    Las Vegas Sun Blogs: 'Politics: Ralston's Flash'

  • My column: Sen. Dean Heller's budget stunt preys on cynicism of public, is empty political theater

    16 May 2012 | 10:21 am
    Dean Heller's "No Budget No Pay" is nonsense, I argue in today's column.

  • Progressives begin mail campaign against Democratic state senator, label him out-of-touch millionaire

    15 May 2012 | 1:13 pm
    A coalition of progressive groups have mailed the first of what they hope will be nine pieces against state Sen. John Lee, calling him "a millionaire who stands with the richest 1%, not the bottom 99%." The targeted mailer, posted at right, uses several Lee votes, including against a tenant rights bill co-sponsored by Speaker Barbara Buckley, to contrast him with their candidate, Patricia Spearman. The folks out to erase Lee are: ProgressNow Nevada Action, Nevada Conservation League, Planned Parenthood and IBEW. Also, MoveOn, PLAN Action and Sierra Club are assisting where they can. Other…

  • Clark County loses arbitration case with firefighter canned in sick leave scandal

    15 May 2012 | 12:14 pm
    Clark County did not prove that a firefighter the government terminated at the height of the sick abuse scandal abused his privileges, an arbitrator has ruled, potentially costing the folks on Grand Central Parkway a lot of money. Donald Munn's lawyer says the award could even up worth seven figures considering that the fired firefighter wants his job back with all benefits, too. Although the arbitrator said an email sent by Munn raised suspicions about the use of sick leave in the department, the county had no cause to fire him and did not meet the burden of proof. We had Munn and his…

  • My column: Washoe County is key for White House, U.S. Senate races

    13 May 2012 | 12:20 pm
    Winning the urban North -- Barack Obama did it in '08 and Harry Reid did it in '10 -- will determine fortunes here and possibly affect the DC matrix, I argue in today's column .

  • Romney event in Las Vegas: $2 million goal, $675,000 pledged

    12 May 2012 | 4:37 pm
    A fundraiser in las Vegas on May 29 for presumptive GOP nominee Mitt Romney is designed to raise $2 million at the Trump International Hotel, according to internal campaign documents, which also reveal how one of the campaign plans to get to 270 electoral votes -- a pitch to entice donors for the event. The invite, posted at right, indicates six tiers of possible contributions: Event chair -- Raise $250,000 Co-chair -- Raise $50,000 Co-host -- $25,000 Photo with Romney -- $10,000 General reception ticket -- $2,500 Founding member dessert reception -- $50,000 (My favorite one: "LOCATION…
 
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