By MARSHALL ALLEN, Las Vegas Sun

LAS VEGAS - After a Las Vegas Sun investigation found more than 2,000 hospital patients were infected with lethal bacterium, the state board of health is slated to change the law on Friday.

LAS VEGAS - Nurses were caring for 26 patients in the intensive care unit at St. Rose Dominican Hospital when a man, edgy and brandishing a handgun, appeared in a hall and began herding nurses, doctors and other employees into a break room.

LAS VEGAS - The federal Drug Enforcement Administration is one of three agencies investigating the manufacture and distribution of Vegas Mixx -- a crudely marketed combination of Valium and Viagra that promised to heal sexual dysfunction and was targeted for the local nightclub scene -- sources tell the Las Vegas Sun.

Perhaps it was the nymph wearing tiger-striped body paint -- and almost nothing else -- dangling in a gold hoop that was strung from the ceiling, pouring wine into the upraised glasses of guests.
Or maybe it was the Rolls-Royce auctioned for $475,000, the showgirls, the celebrity chefs preparing courses of chilled crab salad and Kobe beef, or the bottomless flutes of Dom Perignon.

Two weeks ago, Doug Cooper read about the massive hepatitis C scare triggered at a Las Vegas clinic where nurses were engaging in dangerous injection practices, apparently directed by their boss, a doctor.Cooper was flabbergasted, but not for reasons you might expect.

LAS VEGAS -- A government program to address a national health care crisis by placing foreign doctors in America's rural towns and inner cities is being undermined by employers -- mostly U.S.