Court blocks multi state cut in welfare medical services
A temporary restraining order blocked planned cuts by the State Welfare Board that would reduce Medicaid services for about 22 000 welfare recipients including doctor visits prescriptions and hospital care The order remains in effect until a preliminary injunction is sought next week and was filed by Clark County Legal Services alleging the cuts violate recipient rights and lack legislative consent.
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Keith Hayes
State Welfare Board
Clark County Legal Services
Bleck
Michelle Murphy
Welfare Board
Lola Dean
Dean
Miller
Las Vegas Valley Braces For More Rain and Flooding
Weather service warns Las Vegas Valley of thunderstorms and scattered showers through Saturday with a flood watch in effect until 8 p.m. Friday. Rain caused outages across Clark County and minor traffic incidents, including a patrol car crash injuring a officer. McCarran Airport flights unaffected, Lake Mead reports heavy rain with no boating problems. Yearly rainfall totals rise to 2.73 inches in the valley, up from 1.57 inches year prior, with 2.49 inches falling in February.
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Las Vegas Valley
U.S. Weather Service
Clark County
Nevada Highway Patrol
Las Vegas
Nellis
Boulder Highway
Robert Thornton
Weather Service
McCarran
Lake Mead National Recreation
Giacalone Convicted of Tax Evasion in Mafia Case
Anthony "Tony Jack" Giacalone, reputed Mafia leader, convicted on three counts of evading federal income taxes totaling over 103000. The 57 year old, once from Grosse Pointe and now in Miami, faced a seven month trial after deliberations by a 12 member jury. The judge kept Giacalone on a $100000 bond.
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U.S. District Court
Damon J. Keith
Giacalone
Elevator Fall At Boston Apartment Under Construction
Six workers plunged 13 floors in an elevator at a 38 story Boston building. One man, Edmund Perry of Revere, was hospitalized with a broken ankle. five others were treated and released. The car dropped from the 11th floor to two below ground as the operator failed to stop the plummet.
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Boston
UPI
Edmund Perry
Revere
Longfellow Place
Charles River Park
George Vincent
Winchester
William Gauthier
Stoneham
Gauthier
Perry
Man Killed On Road Near Hoover Dam
Arthur Joseph Werner, 54, of Mesa, died when his car overturned on U S 93 near Hoover Dam. Officials say he may have died from the crash or a fatal heart attack. An autopsy will determine the exact cause. His son Dennis, 19, was asleep in the car and unharmed.
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Mesa
Ariz
U.S. 93
Hoover Dam
Clark County
Arthur Joseph Werner
Werner
Boulder City Hospital
Dennis
Radiation Check at Nellis Areas Tested for Contamination
ERDA and officials survey 49 sites nationwide, including parts of Nellis Air Force Base and the Nevada Test Site, for radioactive contamination dating to early atomic bomb work. Officials say no current risk to Las Vegas or nearby Beatty, with tests to conclude by October 1978 and costs around 850000 dollars.
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Nellis Air Force Base
Nevada Test Site
David Jackson
Federal Energy Research and Development Administration
Las Vegas
Jackson
Beatty
Energy Research and Development Administration
Washington
Oak Ridge
Martin B. Biles
Erda Division of Safety, Standards and Complaince
Columbia
Princeton
University of Chicago
University of California At Berkeley
Iowa State University
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
St. Louis
New Mexico Desert
Pacific Ocean
Mound Laboratory
Miamisburg
Ohio
Middlesex
N.J
New York City
Cook County Forest Preserve
Chicago
Palos Park
ERDA
Libel suit targets CBS over Scottsboro film broadcast in Alabama
A $2.5 million federal suit filed in Birmingham accuses NBC TV and two Alabama affiliates of libel invasion of privacy and seeks to halt broadcasting the movie Judge Horton and the Scottsboro Boys. The suit cites Ruby Bates and Victoria Price, Huntsville women who alleged rape in 1931, saying they died in 1961.
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Birmingham
Ala
UPI
National Broadcasting Corp
Alabama
Arthur Hanes Jr
NBC TV
Judge Horton
NBC
Wapi-Tv
Waay-Tv
Huntsville
Hanes
Ruby Bates
Victoria Price
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George E. Miller
Las Vegas Blvd
Apitol Ltd
Las Vegas, Nevada
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Southern
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