Nevada Congressman Dean Heller has introduced a bill that would require all voter ballots to be printed in English only.
A provision to the Voting Rights Act requires cities and counties to provide bilingual ballots if 5-percent of the voting citizens speak little English. But Heller’s bill seeks to repeal that rule.
Keeping your car in good repair is about more than just keeping it running, it’s about safety. Many of us rely on the recommendations of a local mechanic. To ensure we can depend on the people diagnosing our vehicles, state investigators went undercover to catch mechanics defrauding customers, one car at a time.
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The sting was commissioned as a joint effort between the Attorney General’s Bureau of Consumer Protection, the State Consumer Affairs Division and the Department of Motor Vehicles.
One of the biggest issues today is our sluggish economy. It’s not just the housing market or rising gas prices that people are concerned about. Grocery prices are up across the board and a new poll finds many families are having a tough time putting food on the table.
Nevada has felt the pinch of a $500 million shortfall but projections now push the Silver State’s budget deficit to around $900 million. That puts state agencies on edge as they wait to hear where the axe will fall.
Systems like the correctional facilities are saying they can’t handle any more cuts without putting safety on the line. The number crunching has been done and the cuts are going to hurt much more than first thought.
“The last several months have shown us a rather disturbing trend and it goes to show you that even the best laid plans can often go awry,” said Governor Jim Gibbons.
Gibbons says many state agencies will likely have to slash their budgets an additional 3-percent. That’s on top of the already announced 4.5-percent statewide cutbacks.
“Our state government cannot then turn to those people who are doing with less and suffering from the escalating cost of everything to reach deeper in their pocket and take more out so we don’t have to make those tough decisions,” said Gibbons.
If you want to find something quick, you might turn to the Yellow Pages. Those massive books have pages and pages of ads connecting you with what you want. But one controversial business is being told they can’t advertise.
Talking to Bob Fisher, you get a sense he doesn’t like what he sees in the phone book, page upon page of ads for adult entertainment. Don’t be fooled, though. Fisher is no moral crusader, he’s the lawyer for the Chicken Ranch Brothel and he’s been doing it for more than 20 years.
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Did you feel this quake? Have you felt any others? Tell us about it.
Federal prosecutors say some local doctors and lawyers conspired to rip off their clients and patients for tens of millions of dollars. On Tuesday, the first of what may be dozens of prosecutions began. George Knapp is following this case and has been since the beginning. What do you think of this? Conspiracy?
This is a disturbing story about the plight of a local Vietnam veteran who passed away more than a month ago. That veteran remains in what his daughter calls ‘cold storage’ because she cannot afford to have him cremated.
And she feels her country has let her — and her father — down. What do you think?
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Metro police announced the arrest of 18-year-old Ezekial Williams. Police say Williams was the driver of the car that fired upon a group of students walking home from school last Friday.
Williams was booked into the Clark County Detention Center on one charge of accessory to murder and three counts of accessory to attempted murder.
The suspected gunman, 16-year-old Gerald Davison already faces charges of murder and attempted murder. Police say Davison opened fire on 15-year-old Chris Privett from the back seat of a car while Williams was driving.
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Metro and School District Police are investigating a shooting near Palo Verde High School and another near Whitney Ranch Elementary.
At the Palo Verde shooting, there are reports that one person was shot just as school was let out for the day. It is unclear if the shooting involved students. There is still no word on a condition for the victim.
The other shooting occurred near Whitney Elementary School off of Tropicana between Boulder Highway and Jimmy Durante. There are initial reports that two teens were fighting behind the school.
