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By more than 80 percent, Clark County's union of service employees ratified last week a new two-year contract that preserves longevity pay but eliminates merit pay increases over the next two years.

Dissident Wynn Resorts Ltd. board member and shareholder Kazuo Okada is stepping up the pressure on Wynn as he and the Las Vegas company head toward a court showdown.

A 23-year-old motorcyclist who died Sunday morning after crashing into a van has been identified as Ryan Joseph Callahan, according to the Clark County Coroner?s Office.

The UNLV basketball team dropped three spots Monday in the Associated Press poll to a No. 14 national ranking, falling after losing last Saturday by two points at Wyoming. In the coaches? poll, the Rebels fell three slots to No. 16.

Maverick Aviation Group has opened a new terminal at Henderson Executive Airport that will become a base for the company's air tour operations.

A Las Vegas research firm announced Monday it was doubling the size of its work force and would add 300 to 400 call-center positions to its staff in coming months.

The Clark County Coroner?s Office has identified a man who died when the motorcycle he was riding crashed Saturday near Rainbow Boulevard and U.S. 95.

North Las Vegas Police evacuated eight homes Monday morning after a two-vehicle accident ruptured a nearby gas line, officials said.

A 52-year-old North Las Vegas woman died when her car crashed into a drainage ditch Sunday afternoon, officials said.

An accident on Super Bowl Sunday in the southwest valley resulted in the death of a 24-year-old man and the arrest of a 33-year-old woman in connection with drunken driving, Metro Police reported.

Nearly two days after the Republican caucuses closed, final results show how decisively Mitt Romney won Nevada: By 50.1 percent -- not quite as strongly as he did in 2008, but enough to give him his strongest first-place finish yet.

Enjoy the sunshine today, because clouds and a slight chance of rain will be rolling into the Las Vegas Valley this week, according to the National Weather Service.

Embedded within last week?s statistical report on the 41.5 million passengers who arrived and departed from McCarran International Airport are dozens of positives, negatives and what-ifs that will define how successful Southern Nevada?s tourism industry is going to be in 2012 and beyond.

In the People: Board members of the Nevada chapter of Community Associations Institute, Maria NeSmith, Paula Lawrence, the Nevada Contractors Association, Kimberly P. Stein, Jesse Scott, Cheryl Russ, Eleissa C. Lavelle, Myron Jones, Trump International Hotel Las Vegas, the Las Vegas Hospitality Association, Susan Bauman, Chad Fears, Swen Prior, Jay Schuttert, Paul Schiffman and Lindsay Terrett.

It was the lunch hour and I was enjoying the down time as I waited at the Famous Dave?s at Craig and Losee. When you?ve got a mobile device with you, you?re never really idle, anyway.

With tax season under way, Nevadans are once again asking if they can file their own individual and business taxes or if they need professional help. For most individuals, the April 17 federal income tax deadline is a once-yearly headache. But for local business owners and executives, filing taxes is a year-round concern as companies are required to remit payroll, sales and other taxes on a quarterly or monthly basis ? and, in some cases, even more frequently.

Southern Nevada small-business owners can find plenty of affordable help, online and in person, with their questions on how to tackle bookkeeping, accounting and tax chores ? and whether to outsource them.

As a Christian, I was appalled to see the president of the United States using the National Prayer Breakfast as a campaign stop to propose higher taxes on the rich.

A slow hand count of Clark County?s presidential caucus vote delayed final results, prompting accusations, doubts and derision from national political observers, who called for Nevada?s status as an early caucus state to be yanked.

Last summer, Diane Hutton was offered $500 by the fellows on the cable TV show ?Pawn Stars? for a leather-bound copy of the screenplay for the blockbuster 1972 movie ?The Godfather.?