Monday, Jan. 12, 2004 | 10:40 a.m.
Krolicki has funds for Senate race
State Treasurer Brian Krolicki said today he raised $130,000 in the last two months of 2003 for his potential race for the U.S. Senate.
Sen. Harry Reid, D-Nev., reported he had $3.7 million cash on hand at the end of October. He must file his new campaign expense report by the end of this month.
Krolicki, a Republican, said, "We initially had hoped to raise $100,000 to test the waters and take an informed look at the possibility of challenging Sen. Reid.
"We certainly exceeded our expectations financially and are very encouraged by the energy and enthusiasm my potential candidacy has encountered," said the two-term treasurer.
He said he will formally announce whether he will run within the next 30 days.
Tax preparer gets 18 months in prison
A Las Vegas man who owned a tax return preparation business was sentenced to 18 months in prison and ordered to pay the Internal Revenue Service $120,224 for making false representations on a client's income tax return, the U.S. attorney's office announced last week.
Paul M. Vance, 50, former owner of Advanced Accounting Systems in Las Vegas, pleaded guilty on Aug. 12 to one count of aiding or assisting in the preparation of a false income tax return.
Vance was also ordered to serve one year of supervised release following his release from prison.
Police search for missing woman
Metro Police are continuing to search for a Laughlin woman who has been missing since Easter Sunday.
Ruby Dorman, 77, a longtime employee at the Flamingo Laughlin, disappeared on April 20, 2003, police said.
Ruby's roommate, Jane Rugge, said Ruby was last seen with her daughter, Juliann White.
White returned Dorman's car in the late afternoon of the day she disappeared, police said. White then got into her own vehicle and drove back to Las Vegas.
Rugge said Dorman is very responsible and has never disappeared before.
Dorman has red hair and blue eyes, police said. Anyone having information about Dorman is asked to call Sgt. Dave Swoboda at the Laughlin substation at 298-2223.
Man killed in his doorway
A 29-year-old man was shot and killed early Saturday in the doorway of his apartment at the Apache Pines complex, 9552 W. Tropicana Ave., Metro Police said.
A resident of the complex called 911 about 2 a.m. to report the shooting. Metro patrol officers arrived and found Raymond J. Bush dead with a gunshot wound in the chest, Sgt. Kevin Manning said.
Officers spoke to residents, but no one reported seeing the suspect and no one saw anyone leave the area. No arrests have been made.
Anyone with information is asked to call Metro homicide at 229-3521.
Drivers killed in head-on collision
The Nevada Highway Patrol is investigating a head-on vehicle collision on State Route 160 Friday that resulted in the death of two drivers.
A silver two-door Cadillac drove over the double yellow solid line, passing in a no-passing zone, officers said. The driver steered to the right and then over-corrected to the left, causing the vehicle to rotate counter clockwise, the Highway Patrol said.
The Cadillac traveled into the path of a green 1994 Toyota pickup, which was traveling north, toward Pahrump.
The drivers died at the scene, troopers said.
The driver of the Toyota was a 63-year-old man from Pahrump. He was wearing his seat belt, but died of injuries in his head and chest.
The driver of the Cadillac did not have any identification on him. He appeared to be in his 20s and was not wearing a seat belt, the Highway Patrol said.
After a registration check was conducted, the Cadillac was discovered to be stolen, the Highway Patrol said.
Nevada ranchers weather mad cow
Nevada ranchers are faring better than expected after the first case of mad cow disease in the United States, state officials said.
"We're in a free fall, but not as far as most of the industry thought," said Ron Torell, a University of Nevada, Reno Cooperative Extension livestock specialist.
"We're going to weather this storm, and one way is to become educated," he added.
Torell and state veterinarian David Thain gave an update on the situation to nearly 150 people last week at the Elko Convention Center.
Thain said cattlemen associations helped minimize the hysteria with their quick response as word spread that the disease had hit the country. The lone infected cow turned up last month in Washington state.
"We haven't seen consumers scared to death. Generally, the hysteria has been kept in hand," Thain said, adding there's an extremely low health risk to the public.
Preston Wright, president of the Nevada Cattlemen's Association, said he thinks the public would have panicked a decade ago, but it hasn't today.
"People have gotten a little more sophisticated," he told the Elko Daily Free Press.
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