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Energy Department pulls water applications for Yucca rail line

In what is the strongest indication to date that it will abandon the Yucca Mountain Project, the Department of Energy on Tuesday withdrew 116 water applications it had filed with the State Engineer for building a rail line to haul nuclear waste to the mountain from Caliente.


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Updated: 02/09/2010 7:13 PM
Pahrump man in shootout with police kills himself

The man who fired at a Nye County sheriff's deputy killed himself during a standoff with authorities on Tuesday.


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Updated: 02/09/2010 9:19 PM
Dentures, diapers for elderly out under proposed reductions, officials say

CARSON CITY - Poor people eligible for free Medicaid health care no longer would receive eyeglasses, dentures and hearing aids, and they would get fewer adult diapers under the $109 million in social service spending reductions proposed by Gov. Jim Gibbons.


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Updated: 02/09/2010 6:34 PM
Cost of services for non-citizens isn't causing budget crisis, state official says

CARSON CITY - Hordes of non-citizens have not caused the state's $881 million shortfall by securing welfare, food stamps and other public assistance, a key state official said Tuesday.


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Updated: 02/09/2010 7:19 PM
Nevada Mining Association sues to block new 5 percent tax

The trade association for Nevada's mining industry says an initiative petition to ask voters to amend the state constitution to include at least a 5 percent tax on gross proceeds of mines, as opposed to the current tax of no more than 5 percent of net proceeds violates "a raft of state and federal constitutional provisions" and filed suit to block it.


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Updated: 02/09/2010 5:34 PM
Woman sentenced after conviction of practicing medicine without a license

A 51-year-old woman alleged to have operated an illegal and unlicensed surgical center has been sentenced to an 18-month to 4-year prison term.


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Updated: 02/09/2010 6:00 PM
'Mafia Cop' son, co-defendant sentenced in drug trial

The son of "Mafia Cop" Louis Eppolito was sentenced Tuesday on federal drug trafficking charges. Anthony Eppolito and co-defendant Guido Bravatti were sentenced to one day in jail - for which they were given credit for time served, five years probation with the first six months served in a halfway house, followed by six months of home confinement, said Eppolito's attorney Richard A. Schonfeld.

ALSO: JOHN L. SMITH BLOG: Eppolito and Bravatti get off light.


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Updated: 02/09/2010 5:03 PM
Super Bowl handle at almost $83 million

On the field, where Drew Brees led the New Orleans Saints to an upset victory, the Super Bowl featured a surprising finish. At Nevada sports books, the results were more predictable.


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Updated: 02/09/2010 9:31 PM
Sun West Bank trying to downsize, raise capital

Sun West Bank, a struggling $381 million-asset community bank, is seeking to raise capital from new investors and to shrink in size, Chief Executive Officer Jackie DeLaney said Tuesday.


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Updated: 02/09/2010 6:28 PM
NV Energy's planned cuts spark protest

Some 200 union workers rallied in rain Tuesday to protest planned reduced health care benefits for NV Energy retirees and cutbacks in the utility company's work force.


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