Las Vegas Sun

May 16, 2008

Kidney transplant outcomes fell short
Low patient volume affected Sunrise program’s performance
Fri, May 16, 2008 (2 a.m.)
By Marshall Allen
By shuttering its kidney transplant program and shifting its patients to University Medical Center, Sunrise Hospital & Medical Center is shedding a fledgling program that consistently failed to meet expectations.
Sun wins award for top newspaper Web site
Honor comes only 4 months after launch
The Las Vegas Sun’s Web site has been named as the top newspaper Web site of its size in the country.
It's still more than seven months before candidates can file for next year's North Las Vegas City Council elections, but Iraq vet Angelo Carvalho is gearing up for a run.
Army reservist throws early hat in NLV City Council ring
By Mike Trask
Army reservist Angelo Carvalho just returned from a 15-month tour in Iraq. He took his family on vacation, rode his mountain bike around the neighborhood and enjoyed the simple things in life.
UNLV nursing student earns one of state’s first Ph.D.s in field
LOOKING IN ON: HIGHER EDUCATION:
By Charlotte Hsu
When Lara Carver graduates from UNLV on Saturday, the 37-year-old will be one of the first two students to earn a Ph.D. in nursing from a Nevada university.
Barkley says he’ll repay Wynn gambling debt
By Jeff German
Charles Barkley said Thursday he will repay $400,000 in gambling markers he owes the Wynn Las Vegas, but he didn’t tell the right people.
Already, CityCenter’s scale, complexity unparalleled
Vdara tower hint of project’s imposing presence
By Liz Benston
For all the stories I’ve written about CityCenter, the largest construction project in the country, nothing could have prepared me for the experience of standing in the middle of it this week.
Members of the CityShare Network, including Tony Hayek, advance planning director for Palm Mortuary, front, meet for their weekly breakfast meeting at Fireside Restaurant and Tavern on Thursday. Members of the networking group help each other with referrals.
A shoulder, or two, to lean on
Small-business owners get together to share ideas, referrals
By Brendan Buhler
A mortgage broker, an electrician, a chiropractor and a funeral planner walk into a bar, but it’s not what you think. For one thing, the occasion is breakfast. For another thing, they came to talk about business, along with 14 other small-business people, no two of them in the same line of work.
Dropping out to go to work
More teens quit school to help financially needy families
Thursday, May 15, 2008
By Emily Richmond
The number of Clark County teens dropping out of high school so they can work has jumped dramatically, and officials suspect the economic downturn is to blame.
The Wynn sues Barkley, claims $400,000 gambling debts unpaid
NBA legend, a self-described gambling addict, will have a chance to repay
Thursday, May 15, 2008
By Jeff German
Wynn Las Vegas filed a lawsuit in District Court on Wednesday to force former National Basketball Association star Charles Barkley to pay back $400,000 in gambling markers the casino alleges it extended him last year.
Petition seeks OK for hemp in energy research
Looking in on: Carson City: Backers fight association with marijuana
Thursday, May 15, 2008
By Cy Ryan
Two years after voters rejected a proposal to allow Nevadans to possess 1 ounce of marijuana for personal use, a plan has surfaced to permit research into using industrial hemp, a relative of marijuana, to generate energy.

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