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May 15, 2008

Heck Returns Home

Once in a while, but not often enough, we bring our viewers Face to Face with the courageous men and women of the military. Like many, we’ve grown weary of the war during the last five years, but we never tire of, nor can we keep a dry eye while hearing stories of the sacrifice and selflessness of those who put themselves in harm’s way.

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Should She Stay or Should She Go?

Hillary Clinton’s man in Nevada, Clark County Commission Chairman Rory Reid, and Barack Obama’s campaign operative, Billy Vassiliadis, ponder whether the Democratic party can heal after an historic, energizing, yet divisive presidential primary race.

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Dying for Sport?

My father was a gambler. Whether it was a horse race or the sheriff’s race, he always had a bet. Every August he’d take us out of the oppressive Las Vegas heat to the even more oppressive heat and humidity of New York City… and eventually, thankfully, on to the Catskills, the lush mountains where the movie “Dirty Dancing” was set.

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Hit Bottom?

Home sales are up. Prices are down Realtors say the elusive bottom is at hand. Yet the number of homes in danger of foreclosure is twice what it was a ...

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Attorney: Dawn got Jim where he is today

Cal Dunlap, who represents Dawn Gibbons in divorce proceedings filed by her husband, Governor Jim Gibbons, this morning confirmed my suspicions that our First Lady is far from your ordinary political wife.

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Lawsuit filed in hepatitis case

Attorney Gerald Gillock is filing a lawsuit today on behalf of a patient who contracted Hepatitis C at the Endoscopy Center of Southern Nevada.

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Shocked and Devastated

The president of the Nevada State Medical Association, Dr. Ed Kingsley, said he is shocked and devastated by the lapses that went on for years at the Endoscopy Center of Southern Nevada and other clinics. Kingsley also said that anesthesiologists, who bill independently of the clinics, would have been more likely to challenge the practices than the nurse anesthetists who depended for their livelihoods on Dr. Dipak Desai, the owner of the six facilities closed by authorities.

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Attorney: Autopsy says ice cream lady on her knees

Jim Jimmerson, the attorney for the family of Deshira Selimaj, the woman killed by a Henderson Police officer says autopsy results show that Selimaj was on the ground when she was shot.

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Trail of fraud?

Attorney General Catherine Cortez-Masto says her office will do whatever it takes to learn whether the Endoscopy Center of Southern Nevada engaged in fraud with respect to Medicare billings.

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Damage control?

Why hasn’t the owner of the Endoscopy Center of Southern Nevada offered to pay for medical testing for patients possibly exposed to deadly diseases in his clinic? No doubt I lack the skills to have prevailed in the public relations business, but it seems like a no-brainer even to me… not only for PR purposes but for the public good.

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Tracy Lawrence

Tracy Lawrence

With special guest Randy Houser ( House of Blues)