Criminal charges have been dropped against a sheriff’s detective who arrested embattled Nye County District Attorney Bob Beckett in May. Detective David Boruchowitz was scheduled to be arraigned Friday on 27 counts, many of them felonies, including assault, kidnapping and false arrest.
Attorney Jason Awad on Friday announced an agreement to acquire 1st Commerce Bank of North Las Vegas from Capitol Bancorp. He was chairman of $489 million-asset Business Bank of Nevada, which was recapitalized and sold to City National Corp. of Los Angeles for 3.5 times the book value shown on accounting books in February 2007.
Single-family home sales dropped sharply to 2,806 in September, a 16.4 percent decrease from the same month a year ago, and inventory of homes on the market jumped 9.2 percent to 22,719, the Greater Las Vegas Association of Realtors reported Friday.