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 Jeremy Anderson and his mother Barbara leave the courtroom Tuesday after pleading no contest to a gross misdemeanor. Anderson received six months' probation in connection with charges he wrote his and his friends' names in a stretch of w et concrete in northwest Las Vegas six months ago. Photo by Gary Thompson. |
 No hard time for concrete kidThe case of a boy whose name was written in concrete was settled Tuesday when 10-year-old Jeremy Anderson pleaded no contest in Juvenile Court to a gross misdemeanor.The Las Vegas boy admitted writing his name an d the names of his friends in a 350-foot stretch of wet concrete last year, but he stuck by his previous story, claiming a construction worker at the site had invited him to do so. FULL TEXT Defense claims parents covered up diagnosis of sonVISTA, Calif. -- Under pressure from the parents of Joshua Jenkins, Clark County School District administrators overruled educational and psychiatric experts and deleted the diagnosis that the boy was "severely emotionally disturbed," a defense atto rney said Tuesday."This boy was in an environment with his parents where it was not OK to be mentally ill," said defense attorney William LaFond during the sanity phase of Jenkins' trial. FULL TEXT 
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