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Print edition for July 22, 2004

County's first human case of West Nile virus is suspected
Dan Kulin, Mary Manning and Ed Koch
A Clark County resident is suspected of having the disease, the first possible case of a person contracting the West Nile virus in Nevada, local health officials said this morning.
Expenses target of School Board candidate
By Emily Richmond
It's become a regular occurrence at Clark County School Board meetings -- Ryan Devins, one of three candidates challenging incumbent member Denise Brodsky, uses his allotted three minutes of public comment to criticize the spending habits of district officials.
Sierra Health profit increases 89 percent
Michelle Swafford
Sierra Health Services Inc., the largest managed-care insurer in Nevada, Wednesday reported an 89 percent increase in second-quarter profit, beating analysts' expectations thanks to strong growth in its commercial membership and its ability to price premiums above rising medical costs.
Adelson wins a round in battle of Strip titans
Strip casino mogul Sheldon Adelson won a key vote before the Clark County Commission on Wednesday that will allow construction of his planned $1.6 billion resort to move forward.
Prospective Aladdin buyer would invite Ronstadt back
Dan Kulin
If the prospective new owners of the Aladdin have their way, Linda Ronstadt will soon be back at the Strip resort -- with controversial filmmaker Michael Moore in tow.
Probation given in road rage attack
By Matt Pordum
A 29-year-old real estate agent who jumped out of his car and in a fit of road rage punched a driver who had cut him off was sentenced to three years probation by District Judge Donald Mosley on Wednesday.
High court strikes down Williams' new trial
CARSON CITY -- The Nevada Supreme Court ruled today that Jessica Williams was properly found guilty of driving under the influence of marijuana when she hit and killed six teenage members of a cleanup crew on Interstate 15 in March 2000.
Nader earns place on Nevada's ballot
Kirsten Searer and Cy Ryan
Independent presidential candidate Ralph Nader has enough signatures to appear on the Nevada ballot.
Cell phone firms reach deal to become more accountable
Some of the nation's largest wireless companies have just become more accountable to consumers.
Study: LV not suited for a major zoo
There once was a vision of a world-class zoo on 250 acres at Floyd Lamb State Park -- a place where exotic animals would roam in wild habitats that would become a top attraction with locals and tourists.
Officers' wrongful use of Tasers alleged
Jen Lawson
At the heart of an excessive force investigation of two officers in the Metro Police Southwest Area Command is an allegation that they used their department-issued Taser guns improperly on at least one citizen, Sheriff Bill Young said Wednesday.
No Sloane Down: At age 83, artist still works in multiple mediums
At 83, she has spent six decades working in multiple mediums. Her paintings and prints are clean and devoid of detail, a resolute influence from her early years studying graphics and packaging design. Her portraits tell stories.
UNR receives grant for biodiesel project
AP
The grant from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will fund a pilot project that will use ethanol, rather than methanol, to make the fuel.
Community briefs for July 22, 2004
The Clark County School District's Transportation Department is encouraging parents of students eligible for bus service to submit an application regarding bus service for the 2004-05 school year by July 30.
Voicing opinion was not the problem
Shannon Stevens
The family's Linda Ronstadt 8-track tape was a favorite when we'd pile into the Ford station wagon every June on our summer trek from Tunkhannock, Pa., to Seattle. While things could get a little testy while crossing the plains with no air conditioning a good sing-along of "You're No Good" did wonders to lift the spirits.
Ronstadt Revisited: Comments rekindle anti-war nostalgia
The evening began inauspiciously enough.
Attempted murder conviction against Carlucci dropped
By Matt Pordum
A man convicted of attempted murder for attacking and prompting a Metro Police officer to shoot him saw that charge dropped in an unusual post-conviction plea agreement Wednesday.
Arizona wants to renew court rivalry with Rebels
Steve Guiremand
When it came to college basketball rivalries, few were more glamorous in the 1980s than UNLV against Arizona.
Editorial: Back to drawing board
The Energy Department, though, still plans to submit an application for a license to operate Yucca Mountain this year, and to open the dump by 2010. The Nuclear Regulatory Commission, which will decide on the license, would then have two options -- begin evaluating aspects of the Energy Department's application that do not pertain to the radiation standard, or wait for a new standard. In our view, it's impossible to set a meaningful standard for even a thousand years, much less 10,000 years. The whole dangerous project should be shut down. At the very least, not one minute should be ...
Boy accidentally shot in the hand
Heather Rawlyk
A 12-year-old boy was accidentally shot in the hand while playing with a gun with his cousin in a Las Vegas home Wednesday afternoon.
No evidence explains LV hijackers' meeting
"Beyond Las Vegas' reputation for welcoming tourists, we have seen no credible evidence explaining why, on this occasion and others, the operatives flew to or met in Las Vegas," the 9-11 commission report states.
Chamber of Commerce won't appeal court ruling
Kirsten Searer
The Las Vegas Chamber of Commerce has decided against appealing a court ruling that put an initiative that purports to stop frivolous lawsuits on the ballot.
Las Vegas travel boom elevates Caesars Entertainment results
By Liz Benston
Profit at Caesars Entertainment Inc. more than tripled in the second quarter as the company reaped an $87 million gain on the sale of its Las Vegas Hilton resort, the Las Vegas company reported today. Profit still rose 46 percent without the gain, an increase largely driven by strong growth in Las Vegas and in line with recent earnings increases from competitors.
Profit declines for Aladdin co-bidder
WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. -- Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide Inc., owner of the Sheraton and Westin chains, today said second-quarter earnings fell 57 percent from a year earlier, when the sale of hotels boosted profit.
Greenspun Corporation executives promoted
The Greenspun family, owner of the Las Vegas Sun, owns The Greenspun Corporation. Peckman, who has been chief operating officer, becomes the first non-family member to join the board of directors.
Defense Department offers single source to help resolve life problems
Dick Benoit
The Defense Department recently announced the establishment of a "one stop" place to go when service members or family members need assistance with any kind of problem. It's called "Military One Source," and is available 24 hours a day, seven days a week, according to John Molino, deputy undersecretary of defense for military community and family policy.
Dow dips below 10,000
Many companies have reported strong earnings for the second quarter, but investors have focused instead on lower forecasts.
Letter: Aladdin's actions after concert were unjustified
What an embarrassment for Las Vegas.
Three steps to a title
Dean Juipe
Freddie Roach has designed a plan of attack for Mike Tyson, one that goes beyond his July 30 fight against Danny Williams in Louisville.
Business improves for Vegas Tropicana
By Liz Benston
The owner of the Tropicana resort in Las Vegas reported a 50 percent drop in second quarter profit Wednesday as the aftereffect of last year's parking garage collapse at the company's sister property in Atlantic City continued to hurt business.
Girl, 17, killed by hit-and-run driver
Heather Rawlyk
A 17-year-old girl died Wednesday night after she was struck by a hit-and-run driver while trying to cross Flamingo Road near Mojave Road.
Ralph Siraco's Del Mar selections
1st Race -- AIZARUNNER -- Draws outer post for short sprint opener, Santiago atop Knapp trainee, is Aiza-a-runn-a? JOE ON THE AISLE -- Part of Meadowbrook Farms-owned & La Croix-trained coupled entry with JIMMY THE HAT, Figueroa here, Nuesch there, double diploma threat. Value Play -- TELLMEITSNOTSO
Letter: Mental health program needed
With limited numbers of psychiatric beds available, due in part to the past 40 years of deinstitutionalization and the availability of more modern psychotropic medications, the mentally ill who present as agitated and dangerous to others often end up in jail. Coupled with Southern Nevada's rapidly growing population and high rates of substance abuse, subsequent high rates of mental illness have certainly taxed your existing hospital capacity.
Letter: Ejecting singer was overreaction
I guess everything old is new again. America is getting like the Soviet Union in the 1950s. Good thing the Aladdin didn't ship her off to Siberia for voicing her opinion.
Columnist Ron Kantowski: There's something special about summer in the gym
Unless you grew up in some place like Cleveland, where the soot from the smokestacks precluded it, you have probably spent a sultry summer day gazing at clouds with a friend or two or maybe even Judy Collins, and then comparing what person, place or thing you had spotted among them.
Woman alleges that social worker impersonated judge
A Laughlin woman has sued Clark County, the state and a child protective services agency in federal court, alleging that the county failed to oversee a caseworker who passed himself off as a judge.
Resolution to expand LV redevelopment
The areas include: property located between Interstate 15 and the railroad tracks from Charleston Boulevard to Desert Inn Road; a portion of west Las Vegas generally located south of Washington Avenue, north of Alta Drive, east of Rancho Drive and west of Martin L. King Boulevard, as well as land generally east of Martin L. King, south of Owens Avenue, west of Interstate 15 and north of Bonanza Road; and the north side of Sahara Avenue generally between Maryland Parkway, Sixth Street and East St. Louis Avenue.
Letter: Boorish behavior worse than singer
What rude, boorish behavior!
Driver attacked on Eastern
The incident happened about 2 a.m. in the 9000 block of Eastern Avenue near the Las Vegas Beltway.
51s can only wait as trade deadline nears
Nick Christensen
Koyie Hill 25 years old, switch-hitting catcher This season at Las Vegas: .288, 10 HRs, 50 RBIs
Nevada Power expects snarls on next monorail leg
Stephen Curran
Nevada Power engineers are already planning ahead for a series of challenges expected in building the next leg of the monorail, which is not scheduled to begin for at least another year, representatives of the utility told a Regional Transportation Commission subcommittee Wednesday.
Sports briefs for July 22, 2004
Media organizations have asked the U.S. Supreme Court to intervene in their fight to publicize details from closed-door hearings in the Kobe Bryant sexual assault case.
County to study easing rules on auto repairs
Clark County could soon open the door for people to work on restoring vintage cars and building race cars in residential areas.
Outlook improves for builder
ARLINGTON, Texas -- D.R. Horton Inc., a big Las Vegas home builder and the third-largest U.S. home builder by stock market value, Wednesday boosted its profit forecast for the current fiscal year after quarterly earnings increased 62 percent as low mortgage rates spurred sales.
High-speed chase ends with fatality
Jen Lawson
Cash totaling about $4,000 flew out of the windows of a red Camaro after the driver led police on a 60-mile-long high-speed chase Wednesday that began at the California-Nevada border and ended with a crash that killed the driver just south of Las Vegas.
Members to boost capacity
To help calm a nervous and sensitive market, OPEC members are investing in their oil fields and facilities to add between 2.5 million and 3.5 million barrels of daily production capacity by the end of 2005, Purnomo Yusgiantoro told a news conference at OPEC's headquarters in Vienna.
Columnist Brian Hilderbrand: Lucas, 20, to replace the late Russell in Top Fuel car
NHRA team owner Joe Amato has named Morgan Lucas to replace the late Darrell Russell in Amato Racing's Top Fuel dragster, Amato announced this week.
Letter: Republicans riled by opposing view
Stories like this were commonplace in 1970s Communist Russia. However, as we have been told repeatedly in the last two months, Ronald Reagan single-handedly eliminated Communism from the world in the 1980s.
Transitional inmate center to look like college dorms
Beth Slovic
The Casa Grande Transitional Center, a state facility for male prisoners nearing their parole dates, will feature living quarters that look more like college dorms than jail cells, officials at the complex's unveiling said Wednesday.
Editorial: Tasers need more study
Other nonlethal options available to police officers include the use of pepper spray, which has proven many times to be ineffective, and fighting with batons, which is dangerous to both officers and suspects. Speaking with the Sun's Editorial Board this week, Young said he studied medical reports on Tasers before allowing officers to use them and became convinced they were relatively safe. Tasers, however, have been in the news lately because their safety is now being questioned. The New York Times on Sunday, for example, carried a lengthy front-page story on Tasers in which it reported that at least 50 ...
Letter: Stage not venue for political views
As the performing arts are packed to the rafters with liberals, we hardly need to have them spout off their views to know they are of Michael Moore's ilk. If we wanted liberal pap, we could go out and see "Fahrenheit 9/11" first-hand, or your fine readers could just move to Canada, where we have far too much of it.
Letter: Elections should be about ideas
Yes, there are differences between the political parties. And some of them are important ones. But every candidate knows, if he is to be successful, he must allow the string-pulling managers of his campaign pablum to have their way.
VegasBeat -- Timothy McDarrah: NBC ready to take Vegas for a spin
Will it ever stop?
Gravel pit gets six-year stay
The Clark County Commission on Wednesday gave a six-year lease on life to continued digging at a gravel pit in the residential Silverado Ranch area despite the warning from the county's legal counsel that the pit amounted to a commercial mining operation.
Data destuction leads to fine
Philip Morris, the country's biggest cigarette manufacturer, described the fine as "a harsh penalty" and said it would study its legal options.
Reno slot maker posts another record profit
International Game Technology today reported another record profit as it rode the expansion of the gaming industry worldwide.
Herbst weighs new incentives for players
Representatives of Herbst Gaming Inc. said Wednesday that trips to the company's Las Vegas property may be offered as incentives to loyal players at the Midwestern riverboat casinos the company is acquiring.
Gaming briefs for July 22, 2004
ATLANTIC CITY -- Two construction companies said to have a history of associating with members of the Gambino crime family were granted licenses to work in New Jersey casinos Wednesday, against the advice of state investigators.
Fight schedule
At Oxnard, Calif., (Telefutura), Jose Aguinga, Oxnard, vs. Cristobal Cruz, Mexico, 10, super bantamweights; Rolando Reyes, Oxnard, vs. Omar Bernal, Mexico, 8, lightweights.
Swingers club owner's fate depends upon legal jurisdiction
By Matt Pordum
The fate of a Las Vegas swingers club owner who had two Justice Court cases filed against him in February continues to hang in the balance.
They all come out as clock strikes 12
Nick Christensen
The scene in the bleachers at the Doolittle Community Center's William Jay Haynes Gym early this morning might have led some to believe it was time for coaches in the NCAA tournament to take their group photo.
Council supports Young's request for more officers
Clark County Sheriff Bill Young accomplished at least two things before the Las Vegas City Council Wednesday:
Voter registration increases
CARSON CITY -- In the past month voter registration in Nevada has increased by 16,465 with Democrats continuing to narrow the lead of Republicans.
About 600 Nevada Guardsmen set for 18-month deployment
Jace Radke
About 600 Nevada Army National Guardsmen are gearing up for an 18-month deployment at Fort Irwin, Calif., where they will help train active-duty soldiers in desert warfare.
Letter: Hotel wrong to stifle free speech
This is America, where we have free speech, not a fascist dictatorship, where free speech is stifled and we punish those who don't agree with us. The Aladdin should be ashamed for the way it treated a great singer and a great American.
Leading indicators decline
The Conference Board said today its Composite Index of Leading Economic Indicators dropped 0.2 percent in June to 116.2 following rises of 0.4 percent in May, 0.1 percent in April and 0.8 percent in March. Analysts had been expecting the index to remain flat in June.
Letter: Ronstadt should stick to singing
Had I been in the audience, I would have been one of those booing her comments. When I pay for entertainment, I want to be entertained. I don't want to listen to the entertainer's political viewpoints. If I want to hear politics, I'll turn on the radio and listen to Rush Limbaugh.
Friday's horse racing entries
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Columnist Dean Juipe: Morales doesn't figure to change style for title unification bout with Hernandez
Dean Juipe
Bruce Trampler doesn't believe Erik Morales has learned his lesson. But the question is: Does it matter?
Obituaries for July 22, 2004
Angelo Borruto, 78, of Henderson died Tuesday in Henderson. He was born March 17, 1926, in Brooklyn, N.Y. A resident for 10 years, he was a presser in the garment industry.
News briefs for July 22, 2004
The Clark County Commission accepted a review of the Rhodes Ranch Development Agreement that included a dedication of 10 acres for a school site that the developer promised years ago.
MWC voters see Rebels fifth-best
Steve Guiremand
On paper this figures to be John Robinson's most talented team in his six years at UNLV. But that apparently wasn't enough to impress the 16 selected media members from around the Mountain West Conference who voted in this year's MWC preseason poll.
Weekly stands firm, but project extension OK'd
The anguish on Las Vegas City Councilman Lawrence Weekly's face was pronounced.
Washington Mutual disappoints; numbers strong for other lenders
While the flood of bank earnings continued to report strong results on Wednesday, one major mortgage lender delivered expected bad news.
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