Grove named D.C. bureau chief

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Wednesday, Dec. 1, 2004 | 9:45 a.m.

Sun Washington correspondent Benjamin Grove has been named the Washington bureau chief, Managing Editor Michael J. Kelley announced Tuesday.

Grove, who started with the newspaper in Las Vegas in 1998, moved to Washington in 1999 to cover the federal government for the Sun.

Grove won the National Society of Professional Journalists Sigma Delta Chi award for Washington correspondency in 2002 for his coverage of the proposed nuclear repository at Yucca Mountain.

He will continue to write and report and will also coordinate the Sun's Washington coverage.

In other moves at the Sun, Jeff Simpson was recently named business editor and executive editor of the Sun's sister publication, In Business Las Vegas.

Simpson, who has covered the casino industry in Las Vegas for several years, started at the Sun in February as a gaming writer and then worked as an assistant Metro editor.