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(AP) Former Green Bay Packers quarterback Brett Favre will be playing golf instead of football this summer, officials said Friday.The 38-year-old Favre, who announced his retirement March 6, will join the field in the 19th American Century Championship celebrity golf tournament from July 8-13 at Edgewood Tahoe Golf Course on Lake ...
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(AP) Three weeks after he was convicted of possessing and transporting child pornography, a Nevada brothel owner had his license suspended.Storey County commissioners said their action Friday against David Burgess will shut down the Old Bridge Ranch, a legal brothel just east of Reno. Burgess had the lone brothel license for ...
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(AP) A package of budget cuts was submitted Friday to Nevada lawmakers by Gov. Jim Gibbons, who's trying to cope with a projected revenue shortfall that could approach $1 billion by mid-2009 and lead to staff cuts and layoffs.The budget cuts were forwarded to legislators who can either let them take ...
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(AP) Firefighters reported progress Friday in their battle against a 470-acre wildfire that's burning in sage grouse habitat in the northern end of the Pine Nut Mountains near Dayton.Bureau of Land Management spokesman Mark Struble said the fire around Rawe Peak, near the ghost town of Como, was 80 percent contained ...
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(AP) Sugar Shane Mosley's fight with Zab Judah on May 31 was canceled Thursday after Judah seriously injured his arm in an accidental fall.Judah (36-5, 25 KOs), the former undisputed welterweight champion hoping for a career comeback, severely cut his right forearm and needed 50 stitches to close the wounds, which ...
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(AP) A close vote by nurses at three southern Nevada hospitals has union officials disputing the outcome of a labor representation ballot.Administrators with the current bargaining unit, the Service Employees International Union, called the results of the Tuesday and Wednesday voting inconclusive.Officials with the upstart California Nurses Association say more nurses ...
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(AP) A Canadian company is stepping up activities in Nevada with an eye on gold production.Vancouver-based Fronteer Development Group Inc. is investing more than $14 million in Nevada through subsidiary NewWest Gold USA, created after Fronteer's acquisition last year of NewWest Gold Corp.Fronteer also has gold, copper and uranium exploration interests ...
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(AP) A 58-year-old Texas state employee has won a $21 million slot jackpot.Connie Thiele says she was playing a Megabucks slot machine at the Palms Casino Resort in Las Vegas when she decided to switch to the machine next to her.Thiele says she put in $20 and won on the first ...
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(AP) The Truckee Meadows Water Authority has approved $2.2 million in emergency funding to make repairs to an earthquake damaged water flume.Officials say the money is needed to build a temporary pumping system to get more Truckee River water into the Chalk Bluff water treatment plant as well as to begin ...
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(AP) Two elementary school students were arrested Thursday after one brought an airsoft pellet gun to school and the other accidentally pulled the trigger, striking a third grader, authorities said.The incident on the playground at Grace Warner Elementary School happened before classes, Washoe County School District spokesman Steve Mulvenon said.Mulvenon said ...
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(AP) Plans for a new $2 billion casino at Atlantic City's south end are one step closer to reality now that the City Council has approved a redevelopment plan for the area.The council on Wednesday approved relocating several landmarks including a World War I monument and a historic restaurant to make ...
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(AP) A judge on Thursday approved a request from Nevada first lady Dawn Gibbons, hit with a divorce complaint from Gov. Jim Gibbons, to have the couple's closed-door divorce trial moved from Carson City to Reno.Carson City District Judge Bill Maddox noted in his order that the governor didn't oppose the ...
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(AP) The Nevada Department of Corrections wants to start working with state and county child welfare agencies to ensure infants born to women inmates don't end up in unsafe homes or with inappropriate caregivers.Howard Skolnik, director of Nevada's prisons, said he wants investigations of potential guardians to ensure they're suitable caregivers."My ...
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(AP) Authorities say a 12-year-old Reno girl has been arrested by school police after shooting another student with an airsoft pellet gun.The incident outside Grace Warner Elementary School happened before classes started Thursday."A little girl had this pistol out on the playground before school," Washoe County School District spokesman Steve Mulvenon ...
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(AP) St. Louis' newest casino takes a loss in its first full quarter of operation.Las Vegas-based Pinnacle Entertainment opened the $507 million Lumiere Place on the St. Louis riverfront on Dec. 19. For the period of January through March, Pinnacle says the casino lost $760,000 on revenue of $47.2 million.The results ...
