Searchlight News

Welcome to the Daily TWiP, your daily dose of all the holidays, historical observances, etc., we couldn't cram into The Week in Preview.

From the Associated Press : Along a curve of desert highway near the gated home of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, mechanic Bill Johnson is struggling to keep his checkbook balanced.

In this Nov. 11, 2004 file photo, Marge Chorazy leaves the Searchlight Nugget in Seachlight, Nev., where the campaign poster from Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's recent landslide re-election bid still hangs in the window.

Out of America: Can the leader of the Senate deliver the votes that will make or break the President's key legislation? The searchlight is on the man from Searchlight, Nevada.

Republican candidate for U.S. Senate, Sue Lowden, of Las Vegas, just concluded a meet and greet in the Grand Sierra Resort parking lot.

If you needed any further evidence that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reida TMs re-election campaign has launched, Friday comes the first TV ads of the 2010 Nevada Senate race.

Harry Reid is majority leader of the U.S. Senate, meets regularly with the president in the White House and controls the fate of bills coursing through the world's most powerful legislative body.

Highly successful rally in Searchlight, NV for the Un-Elect Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi cause.

New Searchlight Justice of the Peace Stan Colton, center, celebrates his investiture Sept.

A well-known community member is due to be sworn in as the new justice of the peace in rural Searchlight.

Clark County commissioners have picked a new justice of the peace for rural Searchlight.

Blah blah blah. Ralston Purina will eat his words when Reid is transferred to the McDonald's in Nort Las Vegas in 2010.

A trio of Henderson firefighters is on a 343-mile motorcycle trek through Southern Nevada and California today -- driving one mile for every New York firefighter who died in the Sept.

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., wasn't going anywhere near the Van Jones brouhaha.

A small thunderstorm cell popped up over Southern Clark County this afternoon, prompting forecasters to issue a severe thunderstorm warning for the rural area.

Government land sales in the Las Vegas Valley generated another $135 million in funds for public land projects from Lake Mohave to Lake Tahoe, Sen.

Secretary of Interior Ken Salazar signs an act to approve $135 million for Nevada while, from left, Sen.

HORACE LANGFORD JR. / PVT Margery Kay Behrens, left, holds up a sign in favor of health insurance reform during Senator Harry Reid's visit.

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid famously ignores polls, but he might be paying attention to this one.

The National Weather Service has issued a flood advisory through 3:15 p.m. today for normally dry washes in south-central Clark County in southern Clark County.