Las Vegas News Headlines and Stories for Jan 26 2012

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• Police: Man dies while being booked at Clark County Detention Center
  Metro Police say a 43-year-old man died Tuesday night while being booked into the Clark County Detention Center. Police say Taxi Cab Authority officers brought the man into the detention center shortly before 7 p.m. following a dispute over a fare.
• Harry Reid, citing Romney case, says fixing tax code ‘has become an emergency’
  White House advisers insisted that President Barack Obama’s State of the Union address Tuesday night was not an attempt to answer his critics or draw distinctions between himself and the Republican candidates trying to unseat him in 2012.
• Teen’s disparaging remarks about Sisolak were false, her father says
  Less than a week after Kathleen Vermillion’s 15-year-old daughter was videotaped calling Clark County Commissioner Steve Sisolak “creepy,” and a lawsuit alleged that Sisolak had “improper and secretive” intentions toward her, the teenager says she was lying, her father said Wednesday.
• Man struck by car on Sahara Avenue suffers life-threatening injuries
  A 54-year-old man struck by a car Wednesday morning on Sahara Avenue suffered life-threatening injuries, Metro Police said. Police said the accident happened at 5:28 a.m. on Sahara Avenue, east of Maryland Parkway.

• Law enforcement cracking down on drivers and pedestrians
  Las Vegas, NV (KTNV)- In an effort to improve pedestrian safety around the Valley Metro and NHP set up some targeted enforcement Wednesday. It’s only one main intersection away from the scene of that morning’s accident.
• Hundreds of employees laid off at solar power manufacturing plant
  Hundreds of people have been laid off by a local company that was supposed to create new jobs in the Valley.
• Man dies while being booked into CCDC
  A 43-year-old man died after suffering a medical episode while being booked into the Clark County Detention Center on Tuesday evening.
• Las Vegas hotels, restaurants receive AAA Diamond Award
  AAA has announced its list of Five Diamond Award-winning hotels and restaurants, and several properties on the Las Vegas Strip are included.

• Drink in the Dragon
  A Chinese New Year cocktail featuring the flavors of lemongrass and ginger.
• Puppet president: Marvin E. Quasniki is the candidate rural Nevada has been longing for
  “A swearing puppet poking fun at political discourse isn’t new territory for the Henson company (remember Sam the Eagle?). But a politician is.”
• Montenegro exhibit opens at Winchester
  Delve into this refreshing embrace of old-school abstraction.
• Las Vegas’ Big Friendly Corporation releases its third album
  Nocturne to be unveiled at Saturday-night Artifice release show.

• Mormons under the lens
  I was in college, working as a data-entry clerk, when I heard my first weird Mormon myth: “They wear magic underwear.”
• GET THIS
  HIGH OF 65, PROBABLY A LAW & ORDER MARATHON ON THE TUBE — WHY WOULD I SPEND MY SATURDAY CAUCUSING FOR THE DEMOCRATS?
• Sign language
  On the bottom end of the Strip, in the wild blocks between Charleston Boulevard and Sahara Avenue, a prominent sign is as crucial to a business as a fixed address and a front door. Without one, the place might as well not exist.

• Off The Wall: Silver State Caucus
  Kevin takes a look at what is going to happen when the Nevada caucus happens in February and what might delay the results.  
• Federal Judge Tosses Vegas Casino Suit
  An attorney may appeal a federal judge’s dismissal of a lawsuit by six former Las Vegas Strip casino spa employees who claim they were fired because they were too old.
• Get Your Fat Pants: More Than 1 Billion Wings To Be Consumed For Super Bowl
  By: Peter V. Milo HARTFORD (CBS Hartford) — It’s not a good time to be a chicken as 1.25 billion chicken wings will be eaten for the Super Bowl according to a report by the [...]
• Competency Hearing For Physician
  A competency hearing is back on in Las Vegas for the former physician-owner of a clinic at the center of a 2008 southern Nevada hepatitis outbreak.
• Arizona Inmate Arrested For Refusing To Leave Lockup
  Most people can’t wait to leave jail, but one northern Arizona inmate has been charged with trespassing after refusing to leave the Coconino County lockup.
• Brady On Cover Of Sports Illustrated
  FOXBORO (CBS) – With the New England Patriots getting ready to face the New York Giants in Super Bowl XLVI, quarterback Tom Brady is finding himself in a familair spot. No, not just another Super [...]