Print edition for November 26, 2001

Blood drives planned this week: Wednesday: 7:30 a.m.-1 p.m., M. O'Callaghan Federal Hospital, 4700 Las Vegas Blvd. North; 8 a.m.-1 p.m., Boulder City High School, 1101 5th Ave.

Special DA unit decides fate of cases: Kim Smith; Before grand jurors hear a word of testimony in any given case, the evidence brought to them has been thoroughly examined by a unit in the district attorney's office that rarely sees the inside of a courtroom.

Grand jurors see other world of crime, justice: Daniela Mohor; In the 20 years she worked as a correctional officer in a California prison, Patricia Greenwood never learned how the justice system works prior to incarceration.

News briefs for November 26, 2001: Police are looking for a man in his early 20s who used a baseball bat Saturday to severely beat a man.

Main attraction: Work of local artist Jennifer Main gaining fans: Kimberley McGee; But Main's star began to rise in 1997 when she was a teenager.

Trends for November 26, 2001: Lisa Ferguson; So you pounded the tile floors of the mall all weekend in search of holiday gifts and somehow still came home empty-handed.

Snow is behind schedule: Angela Soo; Mount Charleston began to look like a winter wonderland over the weekend after receiving its first decent batch of snow of the season Saturday afternoon.

Birth announcements for November 26, 2001: Nov. 14:

Three LV hotels named among North America's best: The list, published in the magazine's November issue, ranked the Bellagio at No. 15, Four Seasons at No. 35 and the Venetian at No. 44.

Council OKs more liquor licenses: Mathis Winkler; Despite worries that too many stores and bars sell liquor along Lake Mead Boulevard, City Council members on Wednesday unanimously approved two more licenses to sell alcohol in the area.

B of A executive joins Zions as CFO: Arnold was formerly group executive vice president for corporate strategy and development at BankAmerica Corp. in San Francisco and prior to that was at Wells Fargo & Co.

Letter: We all must back president in these times: President Bush didn't bring the war with him. If Mickey Mouse were president he would have responded to the terror that struck all Americans on 9/11/01. This act of aggression wasn't a whim but a well-orchestrated plan that took years of careful planning.

Area doctors learn to vaccinate for smallpox: By Emily Richmond; National health officials are distributing training videos that show local practitioners how to administer the smallpox vaccine, a move Clark County's top doctor called an essential step toward bioterrorism preparedness.

Exposed on the road: Steve Addy; What Wisconsin and Nicholls State obscured, Cincinnati illuminated.

Letter: China is not to be trusted: That was the movie. In the real world, according to the Nov. 4 London Telegraph, state-controlled Chinese media outlets are producing propaganda videos and DVDs "glorifying the (Sept. 11 terrorist) strikes as a humbling blow against an arrogant nation." The propaganda is being mass-produced by the Xinhua information agency, Beijing Television, and China Central Television. As the Telegraph reports: "Communist party officials say President Jiang Zemin has obsessively watched and re-watched pictures of the aircraft crashing into the World Trade Centre."

City Council, planners to try to get on same page: Mathis Winkler; The combined meeting of City Council members and planning commissioners will take place at 6 p.m. Tuesday City Hall, 2300 Civic Center Drive.

LV gamblers sue over arrest on cheating charges: Grace Leong; Two gamblers have sued Park Place Entertainment Corp. and its Caesars Palace resort on the Las Vegas Strip, a local private investigation firm and the Nevada Gaming Control Board, alleging they were wrongfully accused of card-bending or cheating and were improperly arrested.

Tennessee police welcome court's video poker ruling: Tom Sharp; NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- A recent Tennessee Supreme Court decision gives police and prosecutors new leverage against video poker operators, allowing seizure of machines on sight instead of requiring police to prove the machines pay off.

Safety net: Group helps homeless people who slip through the cracks: By Timothy Pratt; Don Kirk spent two nights at MASH Village's tent for homeless men after it opened 10 days ago. On the third night the 45-year-old was back on the sidewalk after he showed up 15 minutes after curfew.

Troubled teens to get reality check from coroner: Kim Smith; When Dennis Nolan was a young paramedic, running from car accident to car accident and shooting to shooting, one fact continually struck him.

Ralph Siraco's selections for Sunday's races at Hollywood Park: Sunday's card

Editorial: Employees don't follow guidelines: The problem at the school district, though, is that there isn't enough oversight of the purchasing card program to make sure abuses don't happen. The most frequent violation of the school district's guidelines for the card was employees going over the $500 limit. The audit by Kafoury, Armstrong & Co. didn't find any misuse of the cards, but at the same time the audit report noted that there needs to be better controls in place to prevent the possibility of misappropriations. The principals at each school should do a better job of monitoring the use of the card and be ...

Man slain on Thanksgiving identified: Cattaneo was walking in the 1700 block of Golden Arrow Drive, near Desert Inn Road and Maryland Parkway, about 3:50 p.m. Thursday when he met a man with whom he had a long-standing disagreement, Metro Police said.

First kosher condos for retirees to open in Las Vegas soon: Stacy J. Willis; Boca Raton, Brooklyn and Los Angeles all have them. Now Las Vegas is welcoming retirement communities that cater to the kosher.

No fine levied against casino operator over explosion: Park Place Entertainment Corp. of Las Vegas had contracted with Bay Fireworks of Huntington Station, N.Y., to provide the display. The fire occurred at the end of the show, and some spectators thought it was part of the display.

RTC will test-drive electric bus in LV: Buses that belch heavy clouds of diesel smoke are largely a thing of the past in urban areas like Las Vegas, but even the cleanest still produce tailpipe emissions.

Pioneer Henderson surgeon, businessman Phillips dies: Daniela Mohor; Dr. Lorne Phillips believed health should not be just for the wealthy. The surgeon treated all of his patients equally, regardless of their ability to pay.

No anthrax at LV post office: Precautionary tests conducted eight days ago at the Las Vegas Processing and Distribution Center on Sunset Road for the potentially deadly bacteria have come back negative, the U.S. Postal Service in Las Vegas said today.

Station sues lawyer over voided deal: Grace Leong; Station Casinos Inc. has sued its former high-powered gaming attorney in Missouri, claiming his illegal conduct cost the Las Vegas company an opportunity to buy the Flamingo Hilton riverboat casino in Kansas City.

Casino money helps fund AC civil rights memorial: John Curran; ATLANTIC CITY -- A memorial that commemorates the words and works of the nation's civil rights pioneers has been unveiled.

Columnist Dean Juipe: Carr merits Heisman nod over Crouch: Dean Juipe; If the Heisman Trophy goes to Nebraska quarterback Eric Crouch, as many suspect it will, he needn't send me a thank-you card.

White, Wildcats make run for title: Spencer Patterson; Antione White has had his way with Southern Nevada's top defenses. Now, it's time to find out how he stacks up against the best Northern Nevada has to offer.

Obituaries for November 26, 2001: Brandon James Barr, one day old, died Friday in Las Vegas. He was born Nov. 22, 2001.

Frohlich, Lady Rebels soar to tournament crown: Steve Guiremand; UNLV Lady Rebels head coach Regina Miller felt it was critical for her squad to get off to a quick start in Sunday night's Cox Communications/Lady Rebel Shootout championship finale against Tennessee Tech.

Letter: Boom boxes create hazard: I'm not a cell phone user and I agree with what the bureaucrats summarize as an answer only to lesson accidents, but I've already experienced not hearing sirens on side roads because of excess noise from music.

Prep schedule for Nov. 26 -30, 2001: 4A STATE TOURNAMENT

Las Vegas tourism rebound aided by new ad campaign: Like nearly everything else associated with the tourism industry, the way Las Vegas is portrayed in advertising was changed by September's terrorist attacks.

Ailing credit card company names new CEO: Saunders, 56, most recently served as chairman and CEO of Fleet Credit Card LLC. He replaces Shailesh Mehta, the mathematical wizard behind Providian's celebrated computer models.

Columnist Ralph Siraco: Fantastic foursome racks up riches: Ralph Siraco; The long Thanksgiving weekend has finally come to an end. Along with a feast of sports that included a multitude of racing across the country, a foursome of stars in the sport of kings got more than its share of the holiday servings.

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