Web Site Critical of Local Government Shut Down After Threat

A Web site that lampooned Clark County, Nevada, officials was shut down after a county administrator threatened to sue the Internet company that was host to the site. County Public Communications Director Gwen Castaldi wrote Jomax Technologies, a domain registration, e-mail and Web site hosting company based in Arizona, a Nov. 1 letter that said county personnel were concerned the Web site's content "may be considered slanderous."