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CARSON CITY, Nev. (AP) — State officials report that Nevada’s tax collections are running well above both last year’s levels and what forecasters predicted for the current fiscal year. A state economist told a legislative committee Wednesday that General fund revenue in the first six to eight months of the fiscal year totaled $2.75 billion.

LAS VEGAS (AP) — The U.S. District Court in Nevada is getting two new judges after Senate approval came for the lifetime appointments of former Clark County District Court Judge Cristina Silva and University of Nevada Las Vegas law school professor Anne Traum. Silva is a former federal prosecutor in Las Vegas and state prosecutor

By FELICIA FONSECA Associated Press FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) — The White House says local, state and federal officials must do more to ensure Native Americans have equal access to voting. The Biden administration released a report Thursday that reiterated the persistent, longstanding and deep-rooted barriers to voting in tribal communities. Native Americans and Alaska Natives

By STEPHEN WHYNO AP Hockey Writer The NHL has voided the Golden Knights’ trade of Evgenii Dadonov to the Ducks because Anaheim was on his no-trade list. The league says Dadonov’s limited no-trade clause had not been complied with. Vegas tried to trade Dadonov and a future second-round pick to Anaheim to clear salary cap

By SCOTT SONNER Associated Press RENO, Nev. (AP) — An election reform package has been rejected in northern Nevada with the help of critics that included a lawyer involved in one of the most famous recounts in state history. Alex Flangas told the Washoe County Commission Tuesday the National Senatorial Republican Committee hired him in

LAS VEGAS (AP) — Las Vegas police say a woman fatally shot her ex-boyfriend Wednesday as he held a gun to the head of her current boyfriend after breaking into the woman’s home. Police Lt. Ray Spencer said preliminary information indicates the woman acted in self-defense. Spencer said the woman, her current boyfriend and her

By MIKE SILVERMAN Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A display case in his old high school gave David T. Little the inspiration for his first opera — a work that 18 years later has followed an unusual path to a nomination at this year’s Grammy awards. “Soldier Songs,” an hour-long piece for baritone and

By W.G. RAMIREZ Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — Davante Adams has been introduced in Las Vegas as the Raiders’ newest receiver. Adams gives his former college quarterback Derek Carr the top target he’s been missing. The ninth-year pro had 123 catches for 1,553 yards and 11 TDs last season, when he made his second

LAS VEGAS (AP) — A 21-year-old woman accused of retaliating for the death of an Iranian military leader in an American drone strike in 2020 by stabbing a man she met on a date in suburban Las Vegas will get a competency evaluation before facing criminal charges. Nika Nikoubin remains jailed and her Thursday court

By SCOTT SONNER Associated Press RENO, Nev. (AP) — County commissioners in northern Nevada considered a sweeping election reform proposal in a packed hearing room in Reno. Dozens of residents lined up Tuesday on both sides of the plans to post sheriff’s deputies at all polling sites and require votes to be cast almost-exclusively with

FERNLEY, Nev. (AP) — Family members and sheriff’s officials in northern Nevada are renewing pleas for help finding an 18-year-old woman last seen when a man wearing a mask and hooded sweatshirt got into her car outside a Walmart store 10 days ago. Lyon County sheriff’s Detective Erik Kusmerz said Tuesday that Naomi Irion’s car

LAS VEGAS (AP) — A Las Vegas attorney who was shot and wounded before his arrest by FBI agents for heading a $300 million Ponzi scheme is facing a class action lawsuit. The Las Vegas Review-Journal reported Monday that several investors who say they lost tens of thousands of dollars are suing Matthew Beasley. The

By DAVE CAMPBELL AP Sports Writer ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Nicolas Deslauriers scored in his Minnesota debut as the Wild beat the Vegas Golden Knights 3-0. Cam Talbot stopped 28 shots for the shutout after Marc-Andre Fleury was acquired at the trade deadline to share time with him in the Wild net. Matt Dumba

By JOSH DUBOW AP Pro Football Writer The Las Vegas Raiders signed free agent linebackers Kyler Fackrell and Micah Kiser to add depth to a thin group. The Raiders were in need of help at linebacker after Nicholas Morrow signed with the Bears and Las Vegas released Cory Littleton and Nick Kwiatkoski as salary cap

By KEN RITTER Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — A 59-year-old motorist had cocaine and PCP in his system when his car accelerated into a busy crossroads in North Las Vegas in January, causing a multi-vehicle wreck that killed him, his passenger and seven members of a family in a minivan. Autopsy reports made public

LAS VEGAS (AP) — A Nevada Supreme Court panel has rejected an appeal in a legal battle between UFC President Dana White and a Las Vegas man who went to prison for trying to extort White in a sex-tape case. A lawyer representing Ernesto Joshua Ramos in a breach-of-contract lawsuit against White said Monday he’ll