Clark County prosecutors Thursday asked a grand jury to indict Dr. Dipak Desai, the central figure in the valley’s hepatitis C scare in 2008, and two of his former clinic workers on criminal charges, a well-placed courthouse source told the Review-Journal.
Nye County District Attorney Bob Beckett has been summoned to court in Tonopah next week to discuss the widening legal mess in the county, but even the judge who called for the hearing doubts it will ever take place.
RENO — The Board of Regents OK’d the elimination of a half dozen programs at University of Nevada, Las Vegas, on Thursday.
A District Court judge on Thursday rejected a plea agreement and scheduled a trial for Nikki Pomeroy on charges stemming from the $97 million debacle at Southwest Exchange, a failed Henderson financial firm.
GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. — Iowa Western’s Brent Seifert hit a two-out, two-run, walk-off home run in the bottom of the ninth inning to eliminate the College of Southern Nevada from the Junior College World Series on Thursday afternoon.
In sentencing Noel Gage to probation Thursday, a federal judge described the longtime lawyer as “a good man who made a serious mistake.”
NEW YORK — Rue McClanahan, the Emmy-winning actress who brought the sexually liberated Southern belle Blanche Devereaux to life on the hit TV series “The Golden Girls,” has died. She was 76. McClanahan died Thursday at 1 a.m. of a stroke.