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Print edition for July 19, 2005

Rio flush with success
By Liz Benston
One Wall Street analyst has already dubbed it the "World Series of Poker Effect."
Porter seeks more Yucca documents
Suzanne Struglinski
WASHINGTON -- The Energy Department will be subpoenaed to submit Yucca Mountain project documents, including the draft license application, to a House subcommittee's investigation into potential falsified research at the site.
DOE: Trains destined for Yucca would only carry nuclear waste
Suzanne Struglinski
WASHINGTON -- Trains moving nuclear waste to Yucca Mountain will carry only waste destined for the repository and no other freight, the Energy Department said Monday.
Effect of Raffles purchase weighed
By Liz Benston
Analysts say they are unsure what kind of long-term effect Colony Capital's purchase of Raffles Holdings Ltd. could have on the company's expanding casino holdings in the United States or the company's designs on developing casinos in Asia, the world's fastest growing casino market.
Union leader Wilhelm resigns from AFL-CIO committee
Alana Roberts
John Wilhelm, president of the parent of the Culinary Union Local 226, and a champion for immigrant workers, has resigned from the AFL-CIO's Immigration Committee saying the labor federation has cut the committee out of the group's decisions on immigration policies.
Malone guilty; LV trial next
The attorney for Lance Malone, the former Clark County commissioner and Metro Police officer convicted in a federal political corruption case in San Diego, said Monday that Malone will seek to overturn the verdict.
Company eliminates pit boss position
About 30 pit boss positions have been cut and replaced with the same number of "assistant shift manager" positions at the company's Caesars Palace, Paris, Bally's and Flamingo casinos.
Sports briefs for July 19, 2005
Bishop Gorman High School's In Bee Park, the defending state champion, shot a 2-under-par 69 on Monday to tie for eighth place after one round at the U.S. Girls' Junior Amateur at Eagle, Idaho.
MGM Mirage helping scholar funding
The $100,000 will be matched two-to-one by the Hites Foundation to create a $300,000 scholarship endowment, Punam Mathur, senior vice president of corporate diversity and community affairs for MGM Mirage, said. The nonprofit, St. Louis-based foundation provides scholarships for community college students to advance to four-year institutions.
Heat may be cause of three deaths
Mary Manning and Ed Koch
Three men found dead in the last week, including a man visiting a friend's home Monday, may be victims of the current heat wave, authorities say.
Casinos 'stubbing their toes' with marketing experiments
By Liz Benston
The casino promotion looked bizarre enough.
Ensign-backed bill may affect McCarran
Benjamin Grove
WASHINGTON -- Sen. John Ensign, R-Nev., is co-sponsoring legislation that could lead to new flights between Dallas and Las Vegas.
Monorail banks on sponsorship to help pay the bills
The Las Vegas Monorail Co. today unveiled a freshly painted train, the first to have a local business sponsor.
County to receive land deals report
Stephen Curran
Clark County commissioners this morning were expected to get their hands on the first phase of a review of two of the Aviation Department's controversial land deals.
News briefs for July 19, 2005
A 32-year-old Las Vegas woman was killed Monday morning when she collided head-on with another vehicle on Durango Road near Russell Road, Metro Police said.
School district still needs to hire 600 more teachers
By Emily Richmond
The Clark County School District still needs to hire more than 600 additional teachers in the next month in order to have campuses fully staffed by the start of the new academic year.
Columnist Jeff German: San Diego verdicts ominous
They now must face their own corruption charges in Las Vegas knowing that the federal government has been able to prove a bribery case in court with the help of the same man who accused them of wrongdoing, former strip club mogul Michael Galardi.
Obituaries for July 19, 2005
Michael David Harris, 46, of Las Vegas died Sunday in Las Vegas. He was born Nov. 23, 1958, in Brawley, Calif. A resident for 20 years, he was a transportation manager, a 32nd degree Master Mason, a member of the Acacia Lodge 49, Sunrise Chapter 28, deputy member of the International Supreme Council and the Nevada DeMolay Association.
Alleged 311 Boyz gang member sentenced for parole violation
By Matt Pordum
An alleged member of the 311 Boyz gang this morning was sentenced to 10 months in jail for violating the terms of his probation.
Seven injured in boat fire at Mead
Seven people remained hospitalized this morning for treatment of burns caused by a flash fire on their boat at Lake Mead on Monday night.
Teen describes harrowing encounter with lion
A 17-year-old Mountain Springs resident and his 2-year-old sister told other family members they confronted a mountain lion Sunday just before sunset.
Woman IDs man charged in slayings
By Matt Pordum
A woman whose female neighbors were sexually assaulted and strangled testified Monday that the man accused of the crimes tried to kiss her in her apartment during the morning of the killings.
Man accused in 1998 slayings to request self-representation
By Matt Pordum
A 24-year-old man who wants to represent himself at his retrial in the execution-style slaying of four young men in August 1998 will make his request in person on Wednesday.
Avoiding mishap keeps Busch in place for the chase
LOUDON, N.H. -- Bobby Labonte nudged into Kurt Busch's blue Ford by mistake Sunday afternoon, sending Busch's car into a smoky spin. It looked for a moment as if Busch's car would hit the wall or collide with another car. It did neither.
Lottery raises $350 million over 17 months for schools
The lottery officially closed its books for its first full fiscal year, which ended June 30.
Firm's net misses estimates on fixed-income drop
The biggest U.S. financial-services company said today that second-quarter net income rose to $5.07 billion, or 97 cents a share, from $1.14 billion, or 22 cents, a year earlier. New York-based Citigroup was expected to earn $5.3 billion, or $1.02 a share, the average estimate of eight analysts surveyed by Thomson Financial.
Wednesday's horse racing entries
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Titus kicks off campaign
Kirsten Searer
Senate Minority Leader Dina Titus of Las Vegas is nothing if not tenacious.
Columnist Ron Kantowski: Expectations not in line with team's reputation
CORONADO, Calif. -- As we took off our asbestos suits to bask in the delightful 69-degree weather at poolside here, I asked first-year UNLV football coach Mike Sanford if we could chat about the Mountain West Conference poll that was released Monday morning kicking off the league's annual football media days.
Company to bar transactions by payment processor
"CardSystems has not corrected, and cannot at this point correct, the failure to provide proper data security for those accounts," said Tim Murphy, Visa's senior vice president for operations in a memorandum sent to several banks that was obtained by The New York Times. "Visa USA has decided that CardSystems should not continue to participate as an agent in the Visa system."
Proposed gambling initiative resurfaces
Victoria Scott said her son, Las Vegas investor Shawn Scott, is not a partner in her planned Alaska video gambling venture. She and her son have worked together in the past, including in a company that sponsored an initiative to bring slot machines to a Maine racetrack, but the Anchorage facility would be hers alone, she said.
Oil costs slowing U.S. economy a bit, Greenspan, Bush adviser say
Jeannine Aversa
WASHINGTON -- High oil prices could crimp -- but not derail -- economic growth this year, Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan suggests.
AG says appeal of Indian gaming ruling unlikely
The full 10th Circuit Court of Appeals in Denver last week ruled that the Northern Arapaho tribe is entitled to offer all types of gambling at a casino that's being built. That upheld a similar ruling by a three-judge panel of the appeals court last year.
FBI says mayor met with mob members regarding casino
Special agent John Mallul testified before an administrative law judge during a hearing in which the Illinois Gaming Board is trying to revoke the bankrupt Emerald Casino Inc.'s gambling license. State regulators want to revoke Emerald's license because they say some of the casino's investors had alleged mob ties.
Invasive plants increase danger of desert fires
The wildfires that have blazed through more than 933,000 acres of dried weeds and grasses in Southern Nevada since late June were fed by an alien invasion of fuel, experts say.
Judge to look at whether killer is competent
By Matt Pordum
Is a 21-year-old man convicted of killing his pregnant sister and their grandparents faking a mental illness to avoid sentencing or is he indeed seriously ill?
City to adopt stricter regulations on blasts
Despite opposition from some developers and demolition contractors, the Henderson City Council tonight is preparing to adopt stricter regulations to quiet concerns of residents fearful that blasting is damaging their homes.
Alpha male
Steve Guiremand
CORONADO, Calif. -- When the Mountain West Conference released its 2005 football schedule this spring, it looked like UNLV might get a little bit of a break.
Gas prices not affecting vacation travel much
Jeannine Aversa
WASHINGTON -- Vacationers coping with surging energy prices this summer could take shorter trips or pass up that extra souvenir or fancy dinner. But most people do not seem to be cutting back dramatically on their spending or skipping holiday travel altogether.
LV Liberation: Influential art figure Libby Lumpkin makes return to Vegas
By Kristen Peterson
Libby Lumpkin is in her office at the Las Vegas Art Museum, discussing upcoming appointments as she turns to look at a calender.
Las Vegas unveils new-look Web site
The new version of the site at www.lasvegasnevada.gov is intended to be easier to use because it was produced with the understanding that many of the site's users will be people with minimal experience with the city government.
Letter: Extremism in religion menaces
In addition, I know of no instance where wars, inquisitions or intolerance were instigated in the name of sorcery or witchcraft, but a large majority of such occurrences have been associated with differences in religious beliefs.
Student briefs for July 19, 2005
Gibran Baydoun, 16, of Henderson, a senior at Green Valley High School, was named Nevada delegate for the American Legion's Boys Nation in Washington, D.C.
Fight schedule
At Palace Indiana Gaming, Lemoore, Calif. (FSN), Sam Soliman, Australia, vs. Fernando Zuniga, Downey, Calif., 10, middleweights; Vassily Jirov, Scottsdale, Ariz., vs. Orlin Norris, San Diego, 10, heavyweights.
Editorial: Bush's changing view
Cooper is a key figure in a special prosecutor's investigation into who leaked information leading to the identity of Valerie Plame, the CIA operative. She is the wife of Joseph Wilson, a former diplomat who completed a CIA assignment to Niger in Western Africa in 2002. He investigated foreign intelligence reports that Saddam Hussein had tried to buy weapons-grade uranium from Niger, and found no confirmation. In a July 6, 2003, column for The New York Times, he blistered President Bush for using the false intelligence information as further proof that Saddam posed a threat to the United States.
Community briefs for July 19, 2005
Las Vegas Councilman Steven Ross and other city officials will celebrate completion of the city's first trail project with a ribbon cutting ceremony at 9 a.m. Thursday at the Rio Vista Street-Haven Hollow Avenue intersection.
LV City Council set to vote on purchase of West Las Vegas land
Dan Kulin
The former site of a popular West Las Vegas barbeque restaurant would be sold to the Las Vegas government under a proposed deal the City Council is scheduled to vote on Wednesday.
Immunization schedule for July 19, 2005
HENDERSON PUBLIC HEALTH CENTER: 129 W. Lake Mead Parkway, Building A, Suite 10, 8 a.m.-4:30 p.m., through Friday.
Columnist Susan Snyder: Hopefully heat is short term
At least, none from the faucets.
Letter: Adams dreaded global crusades to aid democracy
Few Americans understand the dire implications of the Bush administration's efforts to "reform" the United Nations into a suitable instrument of the "global democratic revolution" via the Community of Democracies.
Editorial: Judgment in San Diego
In light of the convictions, even more attention will be focused on the upcoming political corruption trial in Las Vegas -- one in which Galardi is alleged to have used Malone as a middleman to bribe three members of the Clark County Commission in order to receive preferential treatment for his clubs. Commissioners Mary Kincaid-Chauncey, Dario Herrera and Erin Kenny, who no longer are in office, were indicted on political corruption charges, and the prosecution's case could be aided by the fact that Kenny, like Galardi, already has pleaded guilty and is cooperating with federal prosecutors.

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