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Print edition for May 17, 2004

State orders Vegas travel company to issue refunds
By Liz Benston
The Nevada Consumer Affairs Division has accused a Las Vegas company that markets travel discounts of using fraudulent and deceptive tactics to lure customers and has ordered the company to refund fees paid by consumers who complained about the company's services.
Kerry, in LV, pledges to fight Yucca dump
Kirsten Searer
Sen. John Kerry promised Nevadans on Sunday that, as president, he would do anything he could to stop the nation's nuclear waste from coming to the state.
It was a bizarre final day for filings
Kirsten Searer and Dan Kulin
Chester Richardson, a Republican running for the County Commission, sent a supporter to file paperwork Friday so he could run for office.
News briefs for May 17, 2004
A 38-year-old man was indicted Friday on charges of running a red light and crashing into a bus stop, killing a man, while under the influence of alcohol on Christmas 2003.
Goodman changes mind on policy
Sito Negron
The self-proclaimed Happiest Mayor in the Land has changed his mind.
Adelson's Sands Macau casino opening tonight
MACAU -- Manuel Joaquim das Neves, Macau's Gaming Control Board director, is struggling with numbers. He has a four-page list of new gambling rules that need to be passed and a stack of plans for as many as 24 new casinos.
VegasBeat -- Timothy McDarrah: Rumsfeld figures in Ensign's philanthropy
"I am not sure how that is going to go over, based on what has happened lately, " Sen. John Ensign told VegasBeat at the event. Ensign supplied the unique item to the auction.
Reservist will get honorable discharge
Jace Radke
A Marine reservist who bragged about killing two Iraqis in a published report will not face court-martial and will retire and receive an honorable discharge from the military.
Coroner's inquest: Man wanted to die at hands of police
Jen Lawson
The last time Laurie Bennett saw her boyfriend Larry Dague, they had argued over a phone call to her ex-husband.
Street of Dreams opens
Street of Dreams opens
Candidates
U.S. Senate
Area cities to vote on budgets Tuesday
Dan Kulin
Henderson, North Las Vegas and Boulder City residents would see no tax increases in the coming fiscal year under proposed budgets all scheduled to be voted on after public hearings Tuesday.
Burglary suspects crash into cars while fleeing
Jen Lawson
Burglary suspects fleeing from a Metro Police officer crashed into two cars this morning at Sahara Avenue and Lindell Road, police said.
Officers take it to streets to keep peace in Las Vegas
Jen Lawson
A trailer attached to a pickup truck in a dirt lot at 15th and Fremont streets is an unlikely place to find a Metro Police substation.
Business briefs for May 17, 2004
SAN DIEGO -- Pizza Hut restaurants were falsely advertising low prices and then tacking a 50-cent energy surcharge on pizzas sold in the San Diego area, a county prosecutor said Friday.
Homeland security chief quits
CARSON CITY -- Jerry Bussell, Nevada's chief of homeland security, has resigned from his $102,000 a year job effective May 28.
Nevada bar exam called one of toughest
CARSON CITY -- Nationwide, only about 25 percent of law school graduates fail their first attempt to pass the bar exam that would let them practice law. But when graduates of UNLV's Boyd School of Law take Nevada bar exams for the first time, about 40 percent of them fail, the dean of the school said.
Businesses to give way to LV City Hall
Las Vegas officials plan to expand City Hall across Las Vegas Boulevard to Sixth Street and are taking the first steps this week toward purchasing a gasoline station/convenience store and several aging apartment buildings that would need to be demolished to make way for the expansion.
Homeland Security chief Bussell quits
CARSON CITY -- Jerry Bussell, Nevada's chief of homeland security, who resigned from his $102,000 a year job on Friday, denied this morning that he used his position to help a communications company get a government contract.
Supreme Court overturns inmate's punishment
CARSON CITY -- The Nevada Supreme Court has ruled that 120 days of credit for good behavior should be restored to a prison inmate from Clark County who was disciplined for yelling out in the prison mess hall that the food was terrible.
Teacher transfer policy showing some results
By Emily Richmond
A new regulation intended to bring stability to struggling schools by restricting teacher transfers appears to be paying off, Clark County School District officials said this morning.
Banquet center in the works
The $12 million project is scheduled for completion in the second quarter of 2005.
Laxity cited in fight against AIDS
Stephen Curran and Mary Manning
Joshua Montgomery has seen the nation's AIDS epidemic from several sides.
Child run over, killed by dad's van
Ed Koch and Mary Manning
"Right now, it appears this was just an accident," Detective Bob Holland said, noting the father apparently had no idea his son had followed him. "I'll be calling the DA's office this morning to find out what they want to do with it."
Reno lawyer Mirch files for Supreme Court
Jeff Simpson and Cy Ryan
A controversial Reno lawyer with a history of battles with one of his opponents filed Friday to run for the Nevada Supreme Court.
Three LV-area stores planned
Owner-operators Craig and Donna Staack will open the stores, including one in Henderson in front of the Galleria at Sunset mall that will open this summer.
Mandalay to enter the slot industry
Mandalay Resort Group, one of the casino giants of the Strip, is poised to enter the potentially lucrative slot machine manufacturing, distribution and slot route markets.
Gaming briefs for May 17, 2004
Louisiana gaming regulators today approved Boyd Gaming Corp.'s $190 million purchase of a Shreveport casino from Harrah's Entertainment Inc.
Major telecom companies in trouble
Marcy Gordon
WASHINGTON -- Lucent Technologies Inc. is being fined $25 million by securities regulators in a settlement of civil fraud allegations because it failed to fully cooperate in an investigation of its accounting, a source familiar with the negotiations said today.
Lowe's earnings improve
Lowe's earnings improve
Editorial: Suit adds to concern over Yucca
Plaintiffs say that Burlington Northern managers are representing the railroad to the Energy Department as one that has "good and proven" safety systems. In fact, the suit contends, employees have been ordered to bypass safety rules in order for the railroad to "be more more profitable when train departures and overall operations can be expedited. Many trains are leaving with both known and unknown defects in equipment."
Letter: Roadless Area Conservation must be ensured
The fundamental trait of such landscapes is an absence of roads. More than half, or 3.2 million acres, of Nevada's highest peaks and watersheds in the Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest are roadless, but their protection is shaky.
Belmont should draw a big field
Smarty Jones might face an unusually large field in the Belmont Stakes when he attempts to become the first Triple Crown champion in 26 years.
Rebels hit 8 HRs, whip Utes in slugfest
With a 10-run lead in the sixth inning of the fourth and final game of a weekend series against Mountain West Conference also-ran Utah, it appeared that garbage time for the UNLV baseball team was fast approaching at Wilson Stadium Sunday afternoon.
Colorado River states discuss water priorities
Representatives from seven Colorado River basin states today will begin discussing a proposal that would give urban areas some of the water that has long been earmarked for agricultural use.
Dream come true?
Adam Candee
The Gladiators turned the ball over four times in the first half Sunday, falling behind by 21 points and generally playing their worst football in more than a month when they could least afford to do so.
Wanted: A dictionary for Fed's statements
Jeannine Aversa
WASHINGTON -- Whether you are an armchair Federal Reserve watcher on Main Street or a seasoned veteran on Wall Street, Fed policymakers sometimes seem to be speaking a foreign language.
New Eagle Scouts are named
Travis Mikel Anderson, 18; Kyle Lance Brooksby, 18; Zachary David Clayton, 17; Cameron Troy Crowther, 16; Bradley Kelly, 15, Logandale; Carson Joel Knuth, 18; Trent Houston Lott, 17; Stephen Gene Lund, 16; Michael Joseph Oliver McAllister, 17; Robert Cameron Parker, 18; Tyler Dean Peck, 13, and Andrew David Sallee, 18, all of Las Vegas.
Birth announcements for May 17, 2004
May 3:
Poker tournament used restitution in fraud case
A man scheduled to be sentenced in a New Jersey court Friday for masterminding a nearly $2 million illegal investment scheme was instead at Binion's Horseshoe playing poker, according to published reports and tournament records.
Columnist Lisa Ferguson: Sun Lite for May 17, 2004
Lisa Ferguson
Summer or at least its unofficial start, marked by the long Memorial Day weekend is almost here. Time to take the pool floaties out of the mothballs; hose a year's worth of grime off the patio furniture; and break a sweat trying to scrape the charred remains of last season's cookouts off the barbecue grill.
Columnist Dean Juipe: Underdog Tarver makes it a memorable night
Dean Juipe
Jay Nady reacted with a disapproving facial expression and a "Knock it off" or "Cut that out" remark to Antonio Tarver, just as one might lightly admonish a cat or a dog for acting up.
Letter: Prison scandal started at the top
When one considers the actions of our country's leadership -- the preemptive invasion, virtually alone internationally despite the obfuscation by Rumsfeld of a coalition, its unequivocal rejection of the U.N., the macho "Bring em on" posture of the president, the outsourcing of military interrogation work to civilians, and worst of all, the continued holding of prisoners at Guantanamo with no access to the judiciary -- the inhumane treatment of prisoners can almost be expected.
Obituaries for May 17, 2004
Norma Frehner Bowman, 81, of Pahrump died Friday in Nye. She was born June 9, 1922, in St. Thomas. A lifetime Southern Nevada resident, she was a homemaker, LDS Relief Society president, Young Women's president, and Primary president. She was active in elementary school activities, and was a member of the PTA and Pahrump Women's Club.
Expos' bid in, waiting begins
Here is the letter that Nevada Sens. Harry Reid and John Ensign, and Reps. Shelley Berkley and Jon Porter, sent to Major League Baseball on Friday:
Young Silverado squad wins 9th title in a row
Adam Candee
Stinging from another beating and looking like only a shell of their perennially powerful selves, the Silverado softball team sat in the dugout in silence after losing at home to Centennial in mid-March.
Where I Stand -- Brian Greenspun: Bright future ahead
It is easy for me to make this prediction. I have many decades of experience in this valley, watching those who lead our community and state, listening to the people who work in the trenches who actually get things done, and hearing the desires of the hundreds of thousands of people who have come here in recent years to make Las Vegas their home, to live and work here and raise their children. When Gov. Grant Sawyer gave the commencement address to that first class at Nevada Southern University, he predicted that what is now UNLV would take its place ...
Gazlay plea deal gains probation
By Matt Pordum
A 19-year-old who police alleged was the leader of the 311 Boyz gang entered a plea agreement on Friday that will get him out of jail.
Park Place: Audiences still turning out at venerable Las Vegas Drive-In
Kirk Baird
There's a gorgeous evening sky even by Las Vegas standards with the sun setting into a pinkish-orange haze over the mountains.
LV entrepreneur Hazan dies at 86
As a youngster during the Depression, Morrie Hazan developed a keen sense for the business world.
Editorial: Voting for health
The smoking ban, of course, is a no-brainer. With all that's known about the harmful effects of tobacco, there obviously shouldn't be a whiff of smoke anywhere within sight or smell of students. The same holds true for junk food, especially with all that's been printed and televised lately about the obesity crisis overtaking millions of Americans -- particularly those of school age. Blame is being placed on the omnipresence of junk food -- it's hard for anyone to escape it anymore. Schools, however, do not have to be part of the problem.
After slow start, Coon gives lift to Skyhawks
Adam Candee
Casey Coon anchors the Silverado baseball team, and it is tough to hold anything in place with a broken wrist.
Columnist Susan Snyder: True drama unfolding in Fallon
It wasn't scripted. It wasn't hyped.
Community briefs for May 17, 2004
The Southern Nevada Chapter of the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society will host the Hope Is Eternal Ball beginning at 3 p.m. Sunday at J.W. Marriott, 221 N. Rampart Blvd., to raise money to fund research programs to find cures for leukemia, lymphoma, Hodgkins disease and myeloma.
Sports briefs for May 17, 2004
Marion Jones, the world's most prominent track athlete, served notice Sunday she will file a lawsuit if she's kept out of this summer's Athens Olympics because of information obtained in a federal probe into the alleged steroid sales by the Bay Area Laboratory Co-operative.
Columnist Ralph Siraco: Pick the adjective -- it was Smarty's party
Ralph Siraco
Smarty Jones won the Preakness Stakes on Saturday.
Few lawmakers sign anti-gambling pledge
Bob Johnson
MONTGOMERY, Ala. -- Most members of the Alabama Legislature are not ready to promise they will never support legislation to legalize gambling or that they would refuse to accept campaign donations from gambling interests.

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