Posted: 10:56 PM John Kerry said Saturday the White House is committing character assassination with its treatment of former counterterror chief Richard Clarke to avoid responding to questions about national security.

Updated: 10:50 PM Officials investigating this week's fire at a building that was one of the state's oldest African-American churches say all signs point to arson. Whether it was deliberate or not, they don't know.

Updated: 10:49 PM The Independent American Party has asked the Nevada Supreme Court to oust five state employees who also serve in the Legislature, arguing their dual roles violate the state constitution.

Updated: 9:56 PM Nevada death row inmate Lawrence Colwell Jr. was executed by injection Friday night for strangling an elderly tourist in Las Vegas.

Updated: 9:43 PM Marvin Lewis had 23 points and Will Bynum made a huge layup with 65 seconds left to give the Yellow Jackets a 72-67 victory over Nevada on Friday night in the regional semifinals of the NCAA tournament.

Updated: 3:46 PM Almost every year, a 10th-seeded team unexpectedly barges into the second weekend of the NCAA tournament.

Updated: 3:39 PM Condemned Nevada inmate Lawrence Colwell Jr., facing a 9 p.m. execution for strangling a Las Vegas tourist, had what prison officials term an overnight emotional change and asked to meet with a public defender's representative.

Updated: 3:35 PM Chief Clark County District Judge Michael Douglas was chosen Friday by Gov. Kenny Guinn to fill a Nevada Supreme Court vacancy and become the first black justice in the 140-year history of the state's highest court.

Updated: 3:32 PM The Senate's second ranking Democrat wants the Environmental Protection Agency to declare a contaminated Nevada mine a Superfund site and take charge of the cleanup because the state is dragging its feet.

Updated: 5:43 AM Nevada's berth in the final 16 of the NCAA tournament puts the Wolf Pack in the pot for a multimillion dollar jackpot of television dollars.

Updated: 8:59 PM The Senate voted Thursday to make it a separate crime to harm a fetus during commission of a violent federal crime, a victory for those seeking to expand the legal rights of the unborn.

Updated: 5:43 AM Northern Nevada's Walker Lake, dying a slow death because of drought, evaporation and upstream agriculture along the Walker River, is getting some relief as a result of a federal judge's approval of a temporary river water transfer.

Updated: 8:52 PM Nevada's elections chief urged Attorney General Brian Sandoval on Thursday to move quickly to get a court ruling resolving uncertainty over Sandoval's legal opinion limiting service by full-time public employees in the state's part-time Legislature.

Updated: 5:44 AM Medical Protective Co., which provides malpractice insurance for 200 doctors located mainly in southern Nevada, has filed for a 24 percent rate increase.

Updated: 11:59 AM Condemned Nevada inmate Lawrence Colwell Jr. told a judge he'd probably say by Wednesday whether he wants a stay of his execution, set for 9 p.m. Friday. But that self-imposed deadline came and went with no final word from Colwell.

Updated: 11:58 AM It's the presidential campaign season, gasoline prices are climbing, and the challenger is demanding that the president get more oil on the market and stop foreign suppliers from "holding our nation and our consumers hostage."

Updated: 4:25 PM Investors decided to take a chance on casino stocks Wednesday, as analysts pointed out positive trends in Las Vegas and raised earnings estimates on some names in the group.

Updated: 4:22 PM Tribal leaders are joining environmentalists in appealing the Bureau of Land Management's approval of Newmont Mining Corp.'s Phoenix gold and copper mining project in northern Nevada.

Updated: 4:19 PM Joe Neal, the first black in the Nevada state Senate and a veteran of a record 32 years in the upper house, said Wednesday he won't seek re-election this year.

Updated: 3:07 PM It was an all-city search for suspects this morning...Reno Police officers searced from Rancho San Rafael...west to Mae Anne and McCarran...and south to downtown Reno after the suspects crashed and dumped their Camero and ran into the park

Updated: 8:38 AM The basketball team from the University of Nevada, Reno traditionally has been known as the "other Nevada" - as in, not UNLV.

Updated: 8:38 AM Nevada voters are cool to the idea of amending the U.S. Constitution to ban gay marriage, according to a statewide newspaper poll.

Updated: 9:16 PM Clinton and Bush administration officials engaged in lengthy, ultimately fruitless diplomatic efforts instead of military action to try to get Osama bin Laden before the Sept. 11 attacks, a federal panel said Tuesday. Top Bush officials countered that the terror attacks would have occurred even if the United States had killed the al-Qaida leader.

Updated: 10:14 AM Nevada voters want more public school funding and say the state education budget should be the first priority for Nevada lawmakers, a newspaper survey found.

Updated: 9:10 PM President Bush is trusted on national security and seen as a strong leader but vulnerable on job creation; Democrat John Kerry is strong on the jobs issue, viewed as the candidate more caring about ordinary people but vulnerable on national security.