Word: nevada
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...teen drivers lengthier and more safety conscious. "I'm not making excuses for his choice to drink," she says. "But if we had tougher laws"--like prohibiting newly licensed teens from transporting other minors--"Sean would not have been out driving with his friends that night." In October 2005, Nevada put in place a graduated licensing law, which phases in driving privileges as teens gain experience and maturity...
...unwelcome distraction this week when Senate minority leader Harry Reid, who would take charge of the Senate if Democrats win, found himself embroiled in a real estate scandal. On Wednesday, the Associated Press reported that Reid had failed properly to report a land deal in his home state of Nevada that nearly tripled his initial investment in six years. Reid has asked the Senate ethics committee for review...
...page program to be temporarily suspendend. "This is a flawed program," LaHood told TIME. "The fact that a member of Congress is sending e-mails to a page and that he can get away with it [shows that] obviously there are problems." Two more Republican representatives, Jon Porter of Nevada and Kay Granger of Texas, also supported LaHood's reccommendation to suspend the page program until an outside team could evaluate its security protocol...
...were selected, Etchemendy—who received his doctorate from Stanford after earning bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the University of Nevada, Reno—would be the first state-school graduate to lead the nation’s oldest private university...
...Other states reporting cases were California, Connecticut, Idaho, Indiana, Kentucky, Maine, Michigan, Minnesota, New Mexico, Nevada, New York, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Utah, Virginia, Washington and Wyoming, according...