The Senate has voted to spare plaintiffs' lawyers in medical malpractice cases from a cut in fees. By a vote of 32-66, the Senate rejected an amendment by Sen. John Ensign, R-Nev., to cap the fees that plaintiffs' lawyers can collect when they win a case. Ensign would ...

So what were NevadaÕs prominent pols giving thanks for Thursday? Here are educated guesses about what they (and a few others) were thinking in their tryptophan-induced hazes: Gov. Jim Gibbons: For Chief of Staff Robin Reedy acting like the governor so someone here does. For no one taking me seriously so I can do and say whatever I want and ...

Mark down 8:35 p.m. PT Monday: ThatÕs when the plug will be pulled on John EnsignÕs grand delusion, the moment, as the Wachowski brothers might appreciate, that the Matrix is revealed and the grotesque reality becomes unavoidable. As ABCÕs ÒNightlineÓ begins a half-hour devoted to the senatorÕs sex, lies and lobbying scandal, the man walking around as if ...