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Archive for December 10, 2001

Arrests in gambling operation: Gary Golden, 57, was arrested Friday, charged with running the operation and money laundering.; 11:13 a.m.

Barden takes the helm at Fitzgeralds properties: Jennie Sute was having a good run at the three-card poker table at the Fitzgeralds hotel-casino Thursday night when a man with a familiar face made his way into the casino.; 11:13 a.m.

Audit: DOE withholding key Yucca data: Benjamin Grove and Mary Manning; WASHINGTON -- Senior managers of the Energy Department's Yucca Mountain project are withholding realistic costs and completion schedules for the proposed high-level nuclear waste dump, according to the first draft of a congressional audit.; 10:59 a.m.

Columnist Ralph Siraco: Jockeys battling for victories mark: Ralph Siraco; Although most of the Eclipse Awards for 2001 have been all but won -- except for Horse of the Year -- many of the year's statistical leaders are winding up with just three weeks to ...; 10:56 a.m.

Vegas loses four flights with grounding of Sun Country: If defunct Sun Country Airlines regroups as an air charter carrier, Las Vegas probably would be one of the first cities the company would come back to.; 10:48 a.m.

Security panel assumes higher profile: CARSON CITY -- A state committee that has operated in relative obscurity for the past two years has taken on a higher profile since the Sept. 11 attacks on New York and Washington.; 10:34 a.m.

'Come Run with Santa' competition Dec. 22: Proceeds from the event will benefit Safe House.; 10:33 a.m.

December camp planned at UNLV: The camps are open to players from 7 to senior in high school and will run from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. each day. Cost is $150 per camp or $250 for all four days.; 10:32 a.m.

Some casinos cancel energy surcharges: David Strow; Energy surcharges, once a subject of controversy along the Strip, have mostly evaporated during Las Vegas' unfolding tourism crisis.; 10:24 a.m.

Prep schedule: MONDAY; 10:08 a.m.

Eight arrested in gambling operation: Gary Golden, 57, was arrested Friday, charged with running the operation and money laundering.; 10:00 a.m.

LV firm may have to sell track: Boyd Gaming Corp. of Las Vegas made the statement in recent filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.; 9:59 a.m.

Judge: Nebraska tribe can keep gaming machines: LINCOLN, Neb. -- A federal judge said Friday that the Santee Sioux tribe can keep the 50 or so gaming machines that make up its modest casino in Knox County.; 9:59 a.m.

Frohlich breaks record: Steve Guiremand; RENO -- Linda Frohlich knew she had broken the UNLV school career scoring record early in the first half of the Rebels' 83-50 victory over Nevada-Reno at the Lawlor Events Center. She just didn't remember ...; 9:57 a.m.

NFR results: Third round: Third Round: 1, Lan LaJuennesse, Morgan, Utah, 86 points on Beard Rodeo's Roan Ranger, $13,522. 2 (tie), Forest Bramwell, Pagosa Springs, Colo., and Scott Montague, Wall, S.D., 83, $9,378 each. 4, Joe Ketter, Roy, Wash., ...; 9:56 a.m.

Intel co-founder donating $261 million to eco group: The gift will be spread out over a 10-year period and will be used for a program to stop species extinction in biodiversity hotspots and to protect large areas of major tropical wilderness, Conservation International ...; 9:56 a.m.

Exec: HP would keep strengths in Compaq deal: Brian Bergstein; SAN FRANCISCO -- Hewlett-Packard Co. can affirm its traditional principles and better position itself for the future with its much-debated, $25 billion plan to buy Compaq Computer Corp., the HP executive overseeing the complex combination ...; 9:56 a.m.

Columnist Dean Juipe: D.A. could interrupt Tyson's plans: Dean Juipe; Reactions were quick and decisive after Lennox Lewis and his people raised the stakes and made Mike Tyson an offer he couldn't refuse.; 9:55 a.m.

Rider Hawkins thankful to be back in NFR action: Victoria Sun; Competing at the National Finals Rodeo is nothing new to bareback rider Pete Hawkins.; 9:54 a.m.

NFR notebook: McFadden, Stone enjoy quick starts: Victoria Sun; As bull rider Cory McFadden sat in a hallway at the Thomas & Mack Center Sunday night, a passerby jokingly asked if he and another bull rider, Blue Stone, were going to share their riches ...; 9:54 a.m.

Nevada miners receive layoff notices: "We're telling all our employees that we're giving them two months' notice and if we have no alternative plans put together by Feb. 5 we will be implementing a layoff," Baker told the Elko Daily ...; 9:54 a.m.

UNLV has lessons to learn after loss: Steve Addy; Like a barber cutting with hedge clippers, the Rebels have much to learn about subtlety and nuance.; 9:53 a.m.

Women's box score: UNLV-Nevada-Reno: UNLV (6-1); 9:52 a.m.

Locals rate 'Ocean's Eleven' highly after weekend viewing: By Emily Richmond; Las Vegas Mayor Oscar Goodman may have wound up on the cutting room floor in the remake of "Ocean's Eleven," but the omission didn't stop most area residents from giving high marks to the movie ...; 9:49 a.m.

Candidates for Congress in race for donations: Erin Neff; With the next campaign finance reports due Dec. 31, candidates for Congress are trying to get as much cash in the bank to make their required filing a siren call to other donors.; 9:47 a.m.

Nevada pulls Yucca audit off Internet: Benjamin Grove; WASHINGTON -- Nevada officials briefly posted the unofficial draft copy of a General Accounting Office audit of the Yucca Mountain project last week, then pulled it off their website at the GAO's request.; 9:46 a.m.

Domestic violence sentence hits former Goodman aide: Kim Smith; William Cassidy, Las Vegas Mayor Oscar Goodman's former top aide, was convicted Friday on a domestic violence charge.; 9:46 a.m.

Man must choose privacy or health: By Emily Richmond; A North Las Vegas man says a pharmaceutical giant wants him to choose between his health and his privacy. It's a choice Grant Gailey, who has hepatitis C, doesn't want to make.; 9:45 a.m.

Hammargren calls victim 'a survivor': Kim Smith; Las Vegas neurosurgeon Lonnie Hammargren has treated 20,000 patients over the last 30 years. Lorraine Mosca is one of maybe five he will never forget, he told jurors in a civil trial Friday.; 9:44 a.m.

Obituaries for December 10, 2001: Mossie D. Burns, 81, of Las Vegas died Wednesday in a local hospital. She was born Dec. 31, 1919, in Castor, La. A resident for 32 years, she was a retired hotel guest room attendant, ...; 9:44 a.m.

Students' numbers lower than projected: Terry Webster; The Clark County School District will remain the nation's sixth largest, based on its official enrollment figures.; 9:43 a.m.

Business people: Recent appointments, promotions and honors: Guy Amato, vice president of sales and marketing at Nevada Title Co., was named to the company's board of directors.; 9:43 a.m.

Comic-book heroes artist out to help terrorist victims: Jace Radke; Over the past 25 years John Romita Jr. has chronicled the adventures of such Marvel Comics mainstays as the Hulk, the X-Men and Spiderman.; 9:42 a.m.

Gaming people: Recent appointments and promotions: Michael Catalano is director of sales and Nivea Santiago is show tickets manager at the Monte Carlo hotel-casino.; 9:42 a.m.

News briefs for December 10, 2001: A pedestrian who tried to cross Boulder Highway near Desert Inn Road Sunday was killed when he was hit by a car, police said.; 9:42 a.m.

VEGAS SPORTS ON TV-RADIO: VEGAS SPORTS ON TV-RADIO; 9:37 a.m.

DOE chief to visit proposed site of anti-terrorism school: Benjamin Grove; WASHINGTON -- Energy Secretary Spencer Abraham plans to visit the Nevada Test Site on Jan. 7 with Nevada lawmakers who continue to push for a national counterterrorism school at the site.; 9:31 a.m.

Mack files Chapter 11: Diana Sahagun; Las Vegas Councilman Michael Mack has four more years to smooth out his political reputation that has been questioned over his denial of a car dealership application last summer, but Mack says his increasing personal ...; 9:31 a.m.

Man who shot Metro officer loses appeal: CARSON CITY -- A Las Vegas man who had a dramatic shootout with police in 1999 has lost his appeal to the Nevada Supreme Court.; 9:12 a.m.

Apologies made for Marines' treatment: The University of Nevada, Las Vegas, law school received sharp criticism Friday for treating two Marine Corps officers from the Judge Advocate General's office so rudely during a campus visit in October that they were ...; 9:11 a.m.

Regents running out of time to pay off school debt: Jennifer Knight; Less than six months away from a critical deadline to pay off a multimillion-dollar court settlement, the Board of Regents decided Friday to leave a plan to bail out the Fire Science Academy in Carlin ...; 9:10 a.m.

CCSN student body to receive less funding: Jennifer Knight; A long history of financial mismanagement led the state Board of Regents Friday to put Community College of Southern Nevada's student government on a drastic fiscal diet.; 9:09 a.m.

Editorial: States can't do it all on their own: This is a tough burden to place on states. A sluggish economy and declining revenues from taxes means that states will be hard-pressed to find enough money to sufficiently boost their anti-terrorism efforts. Nevada officials ...; 8:54 a.m.

Letter: Sharing religion is a basic freedom: She wrote that the aid workers were irresponsible and arrogant. I disagree. Sharing one's faith is something religious people do, including Christians, Muslims, Jews, Hindus, Buddhists, etc. It's like debating politics for politically active peoples. ...; 8:53 a.m.

Letter: 'Fuzzy math' on fed judges: The most casual observer of national politics knows that the Republican-led Senate stonewalled most of Clinton's judicial nominees for the eight years of his presidency. This left the federal judicial ranks seriously depleted.; 8:53 a.m.

Letter: Teachers don't get the respect they deserve: I am a mother of a teacher who has twice been in the "Who's Who" of the 5 percent of the best teachers in America, put there by honor students she has taught. She loves ...; 8:52 a.m.

Birth announcements for December 10, 2001: Dec. 1:; 8:21 a.m.

Blood drives planned: Wednesday: 9 a.m.-3 p.m., Clark County Government Center, 500 Grand Central Parkway; 9 a.m.-2 p.m., Clark County School District, 2832 E. Flamingo Road; 2-7 p.m., Arizona Charlie's East, 4575 Boulder Hwy.; 8:19 a.m.

Volunteers help clean NLV area: Altogether, volunteers and residents collected about 13,608 cubic feet of garbage. Packed in cubic-foot boxes stacked on top of each other, the trash would have formed a tower almost 12 times as high as the ...; 8:18 a.m.

Community briefs for December 10, 2001: A special mailbox just for Santa's mail will be located inside the Lorna J. Kesterson Valley View Recreation Center, 500 Harris St., through Friday.; 8:18 a.m.

Word up: Scrabble champs vie for world title: John D. Williams Jr., executive director of the National Scrabble Association, explains that if you take the letters k and a to form the word ka, then every letter in the phrase "Betsy's Feet" can ...; 8:11 a.m.

Trends for December 10, 2001: Lisa Ferguson; Oh, the weather outside is frightful. (OK, so it's not that cold. Work with me here, folks!) So rather than go out, the folks at Blockbuster suggest you stay inside and watch holiday movies (preferably ...; 8:08 a.m.

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