Archive for March, 2009
« Previous EntriesNevada AG: Ex-Southwest Exchange chief indicted (San Francisco Chronicle)
Tuesday, March 31st, 2009Nevada State Attorney General Catherine Cortez Masto says the former chief of a defunct Henderson investment company has been indicted on felony embezzlement charges. Masto said Monday that former Southwest Exchange Inc. officer and director Nikki Pomeroy…
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Nevada police warn of phone scam (The Des Moines Register)
Tuesday, March 31st, 2009Nevada police are warning residents of a possible phone scam in which a caller claiming to be from Medicare asks for Social Security numbers and Medicare account numbers.
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Nevada region faces flood of trouble (AP via Yahoo! Finance)
Sunday, March 29th, 2009The failure of a century old earthen canal in northern Nevada that sent flood waters into hundreds of homes on a frigid night in January 2008 was only the beginning of a nightmare for a rural irrigation district.
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Nevada lawmakers start 9th week (San Francisco Chronicle)
Sunday, March 29th, 2009Nevada lawmakers start the 9th week of their 2009 session on Monday with more hearings that are likely to produce challenges to some of the deep budget cuts proposed by Gov. Jim Gibbons. Senate-Assembly budget subcommittee work sessions include one dealing…
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Nevada gov names 2 new gaming commission members (AP via Yahoo! Finance)
Saturday, March 28th, 2009Prominent Las Vegas lawyers Joe Brown and John Moran Jr. were named Friday by Gov. Jim Gibbons to the powerful state Gaming Commission, which oversees Nevada’s multibillion-dollar gambling industry.
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Nevada Senate panel advances text messaging bill (AP via Yahoo! Finance)
Saturday, March 28th, 2009A bill to prohibit motorists, including police and emergency personnel, from text-messaging on cell phones while behind the wheel won committee approval Friday and now moves to the full Nevada Senate.
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Nevada governor agrees to stimulus funds (AP via Yahoo! Finance)
Friday, March 27th, 2009Nevada Gov. Jim Gibbons, who had earlier concerns about accepting federal stimulus funds to expand jobless benefits, said Wednesday that he’s now willing to take all such funds, estimated at more than $291 million.
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Suspect in killing of 14-year-old Oregon girl pleads guilty to unrelated charge in Nevada (Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune)
Friday, March 27th, 2009ROSEBURG, Ore. - A suspect in the death of an Oregon teen who vanished in 1998 has been sentenced to 30 days in jail in Nevada for failing to register as a felon in an unrelated case.
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State regulators approve restart of Nevada mine (AP via Yahoo! Finance)
Thursday, March 26th, 2009State regulators on Wednesday gave the go-ahead for a northern Nevada gold mine to restart operations after a yearlong investigation into excessive mercury emissions.
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Regulators OK restart of Nevada mine (AP via Yahoo! Finance)
Thursday, March 26th, 2009State regulators on Wednesday gave the go-ahead for a northern Nevada gold mine to restart operations after shutting it down a year ago during an investigation into excessive mercury emissions.
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