Las Vegas Sun News

Thursday

May 23, 2013

10:36 a.m.

Aureole restaurant wine angels getting new wings: By Ed Komenda; The wine angels of Charlie Palmer’s Aureole restaurant at Mandalay Bay have a new costume. After 14 years of wearing sleek, black jumpsuits to retrieve wine bottles on zip lines from the restaurant’s 44-foot wine tower, two wine server’s now have flashy red, orange and black outfits.

10:23 a.m.

New Palms website boasts of putting the ‘model in remodel’: By Ed Komenda; Palms Casino Resort has launched a new, redesigned website: Palms.com.

9:59 a.m.

Police: Purse missing from home where 75-year-old woman found dead: By Riley Snyder; The death of elderly woman found in a northwest Las Vegas house on Tuesday has been ruled a homicide by the Clark County Coroner’s Office.

9:49 a.m.

Republicans press NRC chair for answers on Yucca Mountain: By Karoun Demirjian; The crisis that engulfed the Nuclear Regulatory Commission and threatened to tip the scales on the Yucca Mountain project last year is in the past, if the bipartisan nods of reserved approval that new chairwoman Allison MacFarlane received at her reconfirmation Thursday are any indicator.

9:25 a.m.

Men arrested in death of teen during iPad robbery held without bail: By Jackie Valley; Two men accused of driving over and killing 15-year-old Marcos Vincente Arenas while stealing his iPad last week will remain in jail at least until their preliminary hearing. Michael Solid, 21, and Jacob Dismont, 18, appeared Thursday morning in Las Vegas Justice Court wearing standard blue jail attire and shackles on their wrists and ankles.

2 a.m.

Gay adoptive parents live as a 'normal family' but yearn for the right to marry: By Jackie Valley; They live in a spacious Summerlin home that boasts four bedrooms, a three-car garage, an outdoor pool and a sizable patch of grass in the backyard. The environment screams family atmosphere, and it is. Greg Flamer and Fletcher Whitwell, a gay couple, consider themselves and their adopted daughter a family like anyone else in the gated neighborhood. But the road to becoming a family was a difficult one because of Nevada’s ban on same-sex marriage, which added extra steps throughout the adoption process, they said.

Wednesday

May 22, 2013

3:19 p.m.

U.S. 95 reopened near Spaghetti Bowl after bomb scare: By Brian Nordli, Riley Snyder; A suspicious black cylindrical object closed U.S. 95 for more than an hour Wednesday before Las Vegas Fire and Bomb squad investigators determined it was harmless.

2:19 p.m.

Pedestrian struck and killed by truck along U.S. 95: By Riley Snyder; A 37-year-old Henderson woman died after she was hit by a truck Tuesday night as she walked along U.S. 95 near the Railroad Pass Hotel and Casino.

1:25 p.m.

Sausage at Firefly tests positive for salmonella; number of sick now at 294: By Ed Komenda; Health officials say cooked chorizo collected from the Firefly Tapas Kitchen & Bar on Paradise Road has tested positive for salmonella. The discovery comes after a salmonella outbreak last month that sickened at least 294 people from 27 states and two foreign countries who ate at the popular off-Strip restaurant, according to a report released by the Southern Nevada Health District today.

12:41 p.m.

Fairgrounds on Las Vegas Strip will accommodate 64,000 for special events: By Conor Shine; An overflow parking lot across from the Luxor will be converted into a fairgrounds for music festivals and other special events, after the plan was approved by the Clark County Commission today.

11:09 a.m.

Firefly owner enlists new PR firm after salmonella outbreak: By Ed Komenda; John Simmons, the embattled owner of Firefly Tapas Restaurant & Bar, has hired a new public relations firm to represent his restaurant. The Ferraro Group on Wednesday announced it would replace Purdue Marion & Associates.

7:28 a.m.

On top of big salaries, companies like Wynn Resorts pile on perks for CEOs: Associated Press; Wynn Resorts kept a suite open all year at its tony Las Vegas hotel and casino for founder and CEO Steve Wynn, at a cost of nearly $452,000. Former IBM CEO Samuel Palmisano was guaranteed an administrative assistant and furnished office for life.

2 a.m.

Developer breaking ground on an office project — a rarity these days: Real estate:; By Eli Segall; With office construction at a near standstill, a Las Vegas developer is breaking ground this week on a project for a residential brokerage firm.

Tuesday

May 21, 2013

10:25 p.m.

Passage of North Las Vegas budget raises specter of further cuts: By Brian Nordli; North Las Vegas City Council voted on Tuesday to approve more than $18 million of cuts to expenditures to balance its budgets for fiscal year 2014.

9 p.m.

Henderson council passes $479 million budget, avoiding cuts: By Conor Shine; The Henderson City Council approved a $479 million budget Tuesday evening for fiscal year 2014, which starts July 1, that is roughly the same size as the previous year and won’t require any cuts to staff or services.