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CARSON CITY -- The Las Vegas Monorail will continue to be exempt from paying sales taxes following an 8-0 vote Friday by the state Tax Commission, although one commissioner took shots at Democratic gubernatorial candidate Jim Gibson for the amount of money he made when he managed the company. Commissioner George Kelesis questioned why Transit Systems Management received $36 million during the five years it managed the monorail company and why Gibson was paid $200,000 a year as a director. "Here is the full-time mayor of Henderson, who is a full-time lawyer and who is earning $200,000 attending one meeting...

LAS VEGAS (AP) - Democratic candidate for governor Jim Gibson said Friday that he'd support a state law banning abortion in most circumstances if Roe v. Wade were overturned. In an interview on the news program "Face to Face with Jon Ralston," Gibson, an anti-abortion Mormon, said he believed abortion should be legal only in cases of rape, incest or when a mother's life is in danger. If the federal law guaranteeing a woman's right to an abortion were to be reversed by the U.S. Supreme Court and the issue turned over to the states, Gibson said he would have...