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LAS VEGAS (AP) — North Las Vegas administrators are finishing a tentative budget to submit to the Nevada Department of Taxation in a bid to avoid a state takeover of city finances and services. City spokesman Mitch Fox said today that city officials were finalizing a spending plan after reaching tentative agreements last week with key employee unions to overcome a projected budget deficit of nearly $18 million. Taxation officials say that under state law, cities need to have their proposed balanced budgets postmarked today.
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Authorities have re-arrested a Phoenix woman accused of throwing a shoe at Hillary Rodham Clinton while she gave a convention speech at a Las Vegas Strip resort. A spokeswoman for U.S. Attorney Daniel Bogden in Las Vegas said today that 36-year-old Alison Michelle Ernst was taken into custody Monday evening in Phoenix. Ernst was due to appear today before a magistrate in Phoenix on federal misdemeanor trespassing and violence against a person charges. Each count could get her up to a year in federal prison.
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Mexican musical icon Juan Gabriel has postponed three California shows after being hospitalized in Las Vegas with pneumonia. A tour publicist said in a statement today that the 64-year-old singer was rushed to intensive care yesterday morning after waking up with a fever and congestion. He had performed a three-hour concert the night before at the Mandalay Bay resort on the Las Vegas Strip as part of his "Volver" tour.
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Sentencing is scheduled next week for an 18-year-old Utah woman on a felony leaving the scene of an accident charge in a crash that hurt eight pedestrians outside a storefront church in North Las Vegas last summer. Clark County District Court Judge James Bixler today set sentencing April 22 for Nyakueth Tear (NEYE'-keeth TEER'). Tear could get probation or up to 15 years in prison. She pleaded guilty Feb. 12 to driving away after hitting people late Aug. 8 outside Iglesia de Cristo on Losee (LOH'-see) Road.
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