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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 2009
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Nevada stories: 105 news summaries

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 Brothels Screwed by Economy 

Even sex isn't selling as truckers losing 'play money' bypass Nevada brothels

Nov 4, 08 12:00 PM CST
(Newser) - The flagging economy is threatening to send Nevada's whorehouses to the poorhouse, the Los Angeles Times reports. Managers of some of the state's 25 legal brothels say they have no shortage of newcomers—some as old as 74—wishing to enter the world's oldest profession, but food and fuel prices... More »

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prostitution • recession • US economy • Nevada • brothel • prostitute • sex trade • sex industry

 Talking Heads 
 Vow Restraint 
 ... Sort of 

Networks vow some restraint

Nov 4, 08 8:10 AM CST
(Newser) - Television news executives have vowed they won't jump the gun and project a president-elect until one man has 270 electoral votes. And they won't count electoral votes until polls are closed, reports the Los Angeles Times. But if key states in the East and Midwest back Obama, viewers will likely... More »

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California • New Mexico • Rick Davis • Nevada • Colorado • CBS News • exit polls • David Axelrod • Election 2008 • television news • network news • projections

FBI Corruption Probe
Clears Nevada Gov.

No charges after investigation into defense contractor ties

Nov 3, 08 1:42 AM CST
(Newser) - No charges will be filed against Nevada's governor after an 18-month FBI investigation into his ties with defense contractors, reports the Washington Post. Jim Gibbons, a former Vietnam fighter pilot, was suspected of helping to engineer federal contracts for defense firms in exchange for gifts while he was a... More »

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Department of Justice • FBI • junk bonds • Nevada • Gov. Jim Gibbons • defense contractors • Dawn Gibbons • eTreppid Technologies • Sierra Nevada Corp. • U.S. Attorney Steven Durham • Warren Trepp

Hard Times Turn Latino Voters
to Obama

Their support in key Western states could decide election

Oct 25, 08 7:53 PM CDT
(Newser) - Campaign workers walking Latino precincts in Las Vegas are finding padlocked doors, foreclosed homes, jobless residents—and more voters supporting Barack Obama, the Los Angeles Times reports. "The economy is so bad, and I am afraid McCain has the same ideas as President Bush," one man told a... More »

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Barack Obama • New Mexico • Latino voters • Nevada • Colorado

Vegas Waitress Sues Nevada Guv in Alleged Rape Attempt

Says Gibbons, cronies covered up incident

Oct 15, 08 10:00 AM CDT
(Newser) - Just months after a messy—and overly public—divorce, Nevada Gov. Jim Gibbons has been slapped with a lawsuit by the Vegas cocktail waitress who claims he assaulted her two years ago and then covered up the police investigation, the Las Vegas Review-Journal reports. Chrissy Mazzeo says she's been "... More »

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Las Vegas • lawsuit • assault • Nevada • governor • Gov. Jim Gibbons

 Wreckage Is 
 Fossett's; No 
 Body Found 

But adventurer's body still nowhere to be seen

Oct 2, 08 10:21 AM CDT
(Newser) - Search teams have confirmed that the wreckage helicopters spotted earlier in California’s Inyo National Forest is indeed the plane that Steve Fossett was piloting when he disappeared last year. One searcher said the crash, which looked to have been a head-on crash into a mountain, was "so severe... More »

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California • Nevada • Steve Fossett • aviator • missing person

 Wreckage 
 Spotted Near 
 Fossett Papers 

Ground team searching for site spotted from aircraft

Oct 2, 08 6:41 AM CDT
(Newser) - An aerial spotter has located what appears to be plane wreckage close to the place where a hiker found ID cards belonging to missing billionaire Steve Fossett, reports the San Francisco Chronicle. A team has been dispatched to do a ground search of the mountainous area in eastern California close... More »

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California • Nevada • Steve Fossett • aviator • missing person • airplane

ANALYSIS

 Latinos Hold Trump 
 in Obama's 
 Nev. Strategy 

Dem hopes new, young voters in Reno, Las Vegas can buck GOP trend

Sep 30, 08 2:51 PM CDT
(Newser) - Barack Obama is gambling that Latino voters in Nevada’s big cities—Reno and Las Vegas—can deliver the state’s five electoral votes, Dan Hoyle writes in Salon. Economic woes, immigration crackdown, and the costly Iraq war are the draws in Reno, where Latinos make up 12% of voters.... More »

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immigration • Barack Obama • Latino voters • Latinos • Nevada • Barack Obama supporters • Reno, Nevada

 West Turning Blue, Dems Say

Party boasts strong voter registration, turnout in Mountain states

Aug 29, 08 12:54 PM CDT
(Newser) - The Mountain West has historically gone for the GOP, but thanks to aggressive grass-roots organizing, Democrats believe they have a shot at turning red states blue, Politico reports. More field offices, opened much earlier than the GOP's, have boosted registration in Colorado, New Mexico, and Nevada. “This presidential cycle... More »

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Barack Obama • John McCain • New Mexico • Obama 2008 • grassroots • Nevada • Colorado • McCain 2008 • the Hispanic vote • young voters

 'Black Mailbox' a Mecca
 for UFO Believers

For many, the search for extra-terrestrial life centers on a farming couple's mailbox

Aug 21, 08 9:15 AM CDT
(Newser) - A faded, handmade mailbox on a lonely stretch of Nevada highway has become an unlikely tourist attraction, the Los Angeles Times reports. The "Black Mailbox," belonging to a nearby ranching couple, has become a magnet for UFO believers who suspect it is a postbox for extraterrestrials. Some spend... More »

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UFO • aliens • Nevada • Area 51

OPINION

 West Primed for Dems' Taking

Washington's neglect has voters yearning for change, Colo. senator writes

Aug 18, 08 3:15 PM CDT
(Newser) - The West has long been a Republican stronghold, but Democrats have a chance there in November, Ken Salazar writes in the Los Angeles Times. Salazar himself beat the Republican establishment to win a Colorado Senate seat in 2004. Independents are now the region’s largest voting bloc, he writes, and... More »

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Barack Obama • New Mexico • Democrat • Nevada • Colorado • Ken Salazar • independents • independent voters

Reid Takes
the Long View

Senate majority leader points toward 2010, looking to avoid Daschle's fate

Aug 12, 08 8:00 PM CDT
(Newser) - Harry Reid has positioned himself among the Democratic elite in Washington, but that doesn't mean the Senate majority leader is taking his eye off of the 2010 election in his home state of Nevada, reports Politico. Reid is maintaining his power position in the Senate while discreetly launching a campaign... More »

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Democrats • Republican • Harry Reid • Nevada • Tom Daschle • senator • Senate majority leader • 2010 election

 32 Research Monkeys Die
in Overheated Lab

Animals 'cooked to death' when heating system malfunctioned

Aug 8, 08 6:15 AM CDT
(AP) - Thirty-two research monkeys at a Nevada laboratory died because their human handlers left the room fatally hot, said officials for the drug company that runs the facility. Charles River Laboratories representatives have met with USDA officials to discuss new measures to avoid a repeat of the accident that involved a... More »

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animal rights • PETA • monkey • animal testing • Nevada

Obama Looks to Tip Scales by Boosting Black Vote

Army of volunteers fans out, targeting young people, African Americans

Jul 28, 08 3:54 PM CDT
(Newser) - The Obama campaign’s national voter-registration effort has deployed 3,000 volunteers, with one major focus on expanding the African-American voter base dramatically. One volunteer hits the sweltering streets of Macon, Ga., with the Washington Post in tow. "You see how mentally shackled and jaded people are, because they've... More »

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Florida • Barack Obama • Ohio • Georgia • Nevada • voter registration • black voters

 Fossett Search Is on Again 

Missing adventurer declared dead in February

Jul 15, 08 9:36 AM CDT
(Newser) - Ten months after Steve Fossett disappeared, a new search for the adventurer's body began yesterday under the guidance of a Canadian geologist and adventure racer who is scouring the Sweetwater Mountains on the Nevada-California border with a team of 10, reports the Reno Gazette-Journal. A competing search party has narrowed... More »

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California • aviation • pilot • Nevada • Steve Fossett • searchers • adventure travel

 June Foreclosures Jump 53% 

One in 501 US households hit with filings last month as crisis rolls on

Jul 10, 08 7:19 AM CDT
(AP) - The number of homeowners stung by the rout in the US housing market jumped last month as foreclosure filings grew by 53% over June a year ago, according to data released today. One in every 501 US households was hit with a foreclosure filing last month. More »

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Florida • California • Michigan • foreclosure • Nevada • housing crisis • mortgage defaults

 Gas Prices Screw Nev. Brothels 

Shed a tear for the lonely trucker... or don't

Jun 30, 08 11:00 AM CDT
(Newser) - Here's one more casualty of soaring oil prices: Nevada brothels catering to lonely truckers are seeing business plummet. Sky-high diesel prices means that long-haul truckers have less discretionary income, so many brothels are offering promotions to give business a boost. At one establishment, customers get double what they pay for... More »

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diesel • Nevada • truckers • oil price • brothel

 Emergency
 Declared in
 Calif. Fires 

Blazes threaten more than 6,800 homes; better weather expected

Jun 29, 08 9:18 AM CDT
(Newser) - President Bush declared a region stretching from Nevada to the Pacific Ocean a federal disaster area, the Los Angeles Times reports, as more than 1,000 fires raged across northern California. Some 17,000 firefighters are battling the blazes, which threaten 6,800 homes. “We don’t have... More »

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California • firefighters • FEMA • wildfires • Nevada • California wildfires • disaster zones • George W. Bush • Big Sur

 Campy
 Documentarians
 Focus on Fleiss 

Pair talks of fame, and falling out with the Hollywood madam

Jun 25, 08 12:42 PM CDT
(Newser) - The makers of such revelatory documentaries as Inside Deep Throat and The Eyes of Tammy Faye have a new film in the works, about Heidi Fleiss’ bid to open an all-male brothel in the Nevada desert, W reports. Fleiss, who had a falling out with directors Fenton... More »

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reality TV • prostitution • Nevada • brothel • Heidi Fleiss • madams • documentary film

Analysis

 Swing States Loom Large 

Insiders look at which might move left or right

Jun 24, 08 5:35 PM CDT
(Newser) - Forget the old swing-state conventional wisdom. Salon rounds up some experts and asks where the electoral map might flip in November:
  • The eastern Rust belt (Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan) is John McCain’s best hope. Ohio is traditionally weakest for Democrats, but the Michigan primary remains a problem, and aging
... More »

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Barack Obama • John McCain • New Mexico • Ohio • Michigan • Virginia • Nevada • swing states

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