Neighbors: Slayings foretold

For years, Timothy Chester talked about killing his parents, according to a couple in Chester’s mobile home park who said Chester confided in them.

Reno-Tahoe bid backers still hope to host 2018 Games

It was thought that should Chicago win in its bid for the 2016 Summer Olympics, then Reno would be all but shut out of any chance of hosting the 2018 winter games. The thinking was the International Olympic Committee would not want the same country hosting two consecutive events.

Lawyer enters not guilty plea

A Nevada lawyer who now lives in Colorado appeared before a Las Vegas judge Friday and pleaded not guilty to criminal charges that stem from a $60 million securities fraud scheme.

Man sentenced in death of a Good Samaritan

KINGMAN, Ariz. — A man who murdered a Good Samaritan who provided him a place to stay was given a 16-year prison term during his Friday sentencing.

Ruling: Resort not liable in teen’s injury

CARSON CITY — The Nevada Supreme Court has ruled the Primadonna is not liable for the injuries a teenage boy suffered in 2005 when he and his drunken relatives were thrown out of the hotel after fighting with other guests.

TORTOISE REFORM SOUGHT

Some are unwanted. Some are displaced. Some are sick or hurt. Clark County picks up roughly 1,000 desert tortoises a year and takes them to a 220-acre conservation center where they are cared for, studied and sometimes released into the wild.

New law hits pocketbooks of neglectful homeowners

CARSON CITY — Like other Las Vegans, Assemblyman Marcus Conklin has been shocked at the number of deteriorating foreclosed homes in his neighborhood, replete with weed-covered lawns and strewn about trash.

Prosecutors, defenders skirmish in ACORN case

After a Las Vegas Justice of the Peace decided that ACORN, the controversial grass-roots organizing group, would stand trial on felony charges it didn’t take long for prosecutors and defense attorneys to begin trading public shots.

Ensign back in the spotlight

Fallout from a sex scandal involving Sen. John Ensign, R-Nev., now includes new allegations of an illegal cover-up.

Area 51 to be revisited at museum

In a two-day event next week at the Atomic Testing Museum, historians will join former pilots and engineers who conducted spy plane operations at Area 51 in panel discussions to separate myths from realities about Cold War work at the Groom Lake installation.

SUV crushes, kills man, 63

A 63-year-old man was killed Thursday evening after his sport utility vehicle, which was parked in his driveway, rolled backward onto him and crushed him.

Court upholds term in baby shaking

CARSON CITY — The life imprisonment sentence given a man who shook his infant son to death has been upheld by the Supreme Court.

Rear action

Laughter is a natural human response when the going gets weird.

Business licenses moving to Web

Secretary of State Ross Miller knew that Nevada was losing revenue when business owners forgot to pay or evaded the state’s $200 business license fee, but he didn’t realize just how much money.

Ex-agent arrested for renting homes he didn’t own

Former real estate agent Eric Alpert, whose nefarious business practices were brought to light by the Las Vegas Review-Journal in 2003, has been arrested by North Las Vegas police for renting homes he did not own or have permission from the owner to rent.

Judge rejects dismissal plea

Bankruptcy Judge Linda Riegle on Friday denied a motion filed by Ronald Boeddeker’s Transcontinental Corp., former owner of Lake Las Vegas, to dismiss the bankruptcy case filed by the Henderson resort community.

IN BRIEF

CHERRY HILL, N.J.

Action seems to favor Fontainebleau sale

The judge hearing the Fontainebleau Las Vegas bankruptcy case appears ready to fast-track a sale of the stalled project instead of going through the more expensive liquidation process.

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