Updated: 10:14 PM Assembly Speaker Richard Perkins, D-Henderson, and Senate Minority Leader Dina Titus, D-Las Vegas, have requested a bill draft to cap increases in Nevadans' property taxes.

Updated: 10:12 PM A confidant of Osama bin Laden, seen on a videotape with the al-Qaida chief as he talked about the Sept. 11 terror attacks, surrendered to Saudi diplomats in Iran and was flown to the kingdom Tuesday.

Updated: 10:08 PM The taps are flowing again throughout Stead.

Updated: 10:07 PM Even though facing an ethics complaint that could get her removed from office, Nevada Controller Kathy Augustine said Tuesday it's "business as usual in our office."

Updated: 10:05 PM Law officers captured a teenage suspect hiding in the bushes near an exclusive Lake Tahoe neighborhood Tuesday evening after he fled police and touched off an extensive manhunt.

Updated: 9:55 PM The Bush administration Monday proposed lifting a national rule that closed remote areas of national forests to logging, instead saying states should decide whether to keep a ban on road-building in those areas.

Updated: 9:50 PM Northern Nevada's largest fire so far this year is nearing containment in a remote area near the Ruby Lake National Wildlife Refuge on the Elko-White Pine county line about 45 miles northwest of Ely.

Updated: 2:53 PM Backers of an effort to raise Nevada's hourly minimum wage by $1 won a court order Monday temporarily blocking a decision by state election officials to prevent a public vote on the plan in November.

Updated: 2:51 PM President Bush defended his decision to invade Iraq even as he conceded on Monday that investigators had not found the weapons of mass destruction that he had warned the country possessed.

Updated: 11:43 PM Residents in the Stead area faced mandatory water conservation restrictions for a second straight day Sunday because of a break in the area's main water line.

Updated: 11:30 PM John Kerry's choice of John Edwards as his running mate was received favorably by the public, polls suggest, but it has made little difference so far in the race with President Bush.

Updated: 10:36 PM A man accused of stealing more than two dozen cattle from Nevada worth $14,000 has agreed to enter a guilty plea to avoid trial, prosecutors said.

Updated: 10:18 PM Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry says his selection of John Edwards as his running mate seems to have injected energy into the campaign.

Updated: 10:14 PM A 50-acre wildfire along Interstate 80 about 20 miles east of Truckee was contained.

Updated: 10:12 PM A western-themed amusement park on Lake Tahoe's north shore based on the hit 1960s television show "Bonanza" has been sold to PeopleSoft founder David Duffield for an undisclosed sum.

Updated: 10:09 PM Customers in the Stead area were being asked to conserve water Saturday because of a break in the area's main water line.

Updated: 2:51 PM The U.S. Department of Education has denied Nevada's application for grant money to fund start-up costs for charter schools.

Updated: 10:14 AM The Nevada Board of Education has approved the start of contract negotiations with a New Hampshire-based testing company, signaling what may be the end of a troubled relationship with the state's current firm.

Posted: 11:36 AM President Bush says legalizing gay marriage would redefine the most fundamental institution of civilization and that a constitutional amendment is needed to protect it.

Updated: 11:17 PM A petition to raise the hourly minimum wage in Nevada by $1 has failed to qualify for the November ballot - based on legal advice from the state's attorney general that also threatens three other initiatives to amend the Nevada Constitution.

Updated: 11:15 PM Federal and state firefighters told Gov. Kenny Guinn on Friday that wildfires in Nevada already have burned far more acres this summer than during all of 2003 - and the worst of the fire season is yet to come.

Updated: 11:13 PM Following the release of a Senate report harshly criticizing U.S. intelligence gathering and analysis, the focus will soon shift to whether and how to make sweeping changes to the intelligence community.

Updated: 11:10 PM A Reno man said his new wife was only trying to get him to stop working as a paid police informant when she allegedly hired an undercover detective to kill him.

Updated: 11:08 PM Nevada conservation chief Mike Turnipseed and his top deputy, Freeman Johnson, are resigning under pressure from the Guinn administration following complaints about what Johnson termed his efforts to "establish a camaraderie" with staffers.

Updated: 11:06 PM Nevada officials declared victory Friday in their fight to stop the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste dump, saying they don't think the Energy Department can meet a stricter standard to protect the public against radiation releases.