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A new report suggests Nevada put budget woes ahead of savers' interests. Could other states follow? Recent controversy over one state's use of the funds in its college savings plans has raised new concerns for parents and students across the country with money in 529 plans. In a game of fiscal hot potato, the Nevada legislature moved money from a state scholarship fund into the state's general fund last year; the state later took $4.2 million worth of fees from its 529 plans to cover the gap in the scholarship fund, according to a recent report from the Nevada Policy...

Richard Beardall is getting exactly what he wanted: a trespassing ticket from federal land managers for ignoring the rules and riding his ATV on a closed road in the San Rafael Swell. Beardall, three other ATV riders and a Jeep, moved a 10-foot barricade near an old uranium mine and made a half-mile roundtrip along the access road to the Muddy River on Saturday. The Bureau of Land Management closed the area to recreational vehicles in 1993 due to riparian damage, said Price, Utah-based BLM manager Roger Bankert. Beardall, president of the Americans with Disabilities Access Alliance knows that, but...