| March 4, 2009 | - A Nevada man was found guilty of sexually assaulting two small girls. The verdict was based on a video that showed the man, an animal trainer for Siegfried & Roy named Chester Stiles, raping a two-year-old girl.
| Source:
Las Vegas Review-Journal
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| February 23, 2007 | - After widespread opposition from residents of Utah and Nevada, the Pentagon canceled its plan to test a large non-nuclear bomb as part of Operation Divine Strake.
| Source:
Washington Post
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| January 1, 2007 | - Concerns about terrorism prompted Governor Jim Gibbons of Nevada to take his oath shortly after midnight on New Year's despite the admitted absence of any known threat.
| Source:
AP via San Diego Union-Tribune
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| October 19, 2006 | -
Las Vegas magnate Steve Wynn elbowed a hole through Picasso's “Le Reve,” a painting he had just sold for a record $139 million.
| Source:
BBC
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| August 29, 2006 | - Warren Steed Jeffs, who reportedly has 80 wives and 250 children and serves as the leader of a polygamist Mormon sect, was arrested in Nevada on suspicion of arranging marriages between underage girls and older men.
| Source:
AP via New York Times
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| March 29, 2006 | - A Las Vegas ambulance company was using a special extra-large ambulance to deal with extremely obese patients; the company said that it had served 75 patients weighing over 600 pounds in the last 6 months.
| Source:
WBAY.com
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| December 18, 2005 | -
Senator
Harry Reid said the current U.S. Congress was “the most corrupt in history.”
| Source:
Reuters
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| November 25, 2005 | - A Nevada man was arrested for stealing $200,000 worth of Legos.
| Source:
MSNBC/AP
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| November 3, 2005 | - The mayor of Las Vegas called for vandals who deface freeways to have their thumbs cut off on TV. “They would get a trial first,” he offered.
| Source:
The Guardian
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| October 27, 2005 | - Strange, vibrating lights were seen in the skies above California and Nevada.
| Source:
SF Gate
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| August 9, 2005 | - The Environmental Protection Agency was working on ways to limit the radioactivity of the planned Yucca Mountain, Nevada, nuclear-waste dump for the next 1 million years.
| Source:
FOX News
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| July 19, 2005 | - Heidi Fleiss was planning to open a brothel in Nevada. “I'm a perfect example of the fact that prison does work,” she said. “I have served my time, now will do my crime legally.”
| Source:
MSNBC Gossip
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| June 9, 2005 | - Voters in Nevada elected a former stripper to be a judge.
| Source:
AP
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| May 7, 2005 | -
Nevada
Senator Harry Reid said Bush was a loser.
| Source:
The Washington Post
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| April 29, 2005 | - A flock of fifty sheep with partially human organs was grazing outside of Las Vegas.
| Source:
AP
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| March 3, 2005 | -
Representative Jim Gibbons of Nevada called for liberals to be used as human shields in Iraq; he later apologized for plagiarizing his remarks.
| Source:
Reno Gazette-Journal
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| March 2, 2005 | -
Nevada announced that it would cost $2 billion to pipe water from rural Nevada to Las Vegas.
| Source:
New York Times
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| November 7, 2004 | - Voters in Montana approved the use of medical marijuana; they also approved a "right to hunt" amendment. Florida and Nevada raised the states' minimum wage.
| Source: New York Times
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| October 15, 2004 | - Officials in Oregon and Nevada were investigating claims that Republicans destroyed Democratic voter-registration forms.
| Source: New York Times
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| July 10, 2004 | - A federal appeals court ruled that the government's standards for the proposed Yucca Mountain nuclear-waste dump in Nevada are insufficient because they extend for only 10,000 years.
| Source: New York Times
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| December 20, 2003 | - It was reported that the omnibus spending bill passed by the House of Representatives this month includes $23 billion in "earmarks" such as $50 million for an indoor rain forest in Iowa and $225,000 to repair a swimming pool in Sparks, Nevada. Jim Gibbons, a Republican representative, explained that the funding came about because he felt guilty for clogging up that pool with tadpoles when he was a boy. "Look," Gibbons said in defense of his earmark, "this is the standard practice the United States Congress has had for decades." Gibbons said he did not view such projects "as pork."
| Source: New York Times
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