Assembly Bill 508 would require owners of small scooters to register them with the Department of Motor Vehicles and wear helmets while riding. The bill would mean additional insurance requirements and make it harder for people who buy scooters to avoid sales tax on the purchase.
Assembly Speaker John Oceguera said Wednesday what Gov. Brian Sandoval says has become “irrelevant” as legislators work to develop a budget and tax increase plan that will protect education from major cuts.Oceguera added that Democrats intend to come up with a plan that has two-thirds support in the Legislature, enough to override a governor’s veto.
Las Vegas has cut $115.2 million from its operating budget over the last three years in order to stay solvent, but more cuts are going to be needed to keep balancing the budget in the foreseeable future, the City Council was told Wednesday.
Lionel Collins III, 21, was sentenced Wednesday to 18 years to life in prison for the 2009 Thanksgiving Day slaying of McClain Kenton Zornes, 19, outside a northwest valley CVS Pharmacy.
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Because of its legal brothel industry, Nevada is a haven for sex traffickers who force young girls and boys into prostitution, a witness said Wednesday during a hearing on a bill to help trafficked victims begin normal lives.
The grass-roots community organizing group ACORN on Wednesday entered a guilty plea to one count of felony compensation for registration of voters. The organization, which is in Chapter 7 bankruptcy, faces a maximum $5,000 fine.
Wearing his late nephew’s high school varsity jacket, Ron Portaro stood Wednesday night in a parking lot on North Tenaya Way where the 22-year-old was gunned down and where police planned to conduct voluntary traffic checkpoints in a search for witnesses.
WASHINGTON –Yucca Mountain continues to generate turmoil within the Nuclear Regulatory Commission as the agency chairman was outvoted by four fellow commissioners late last month on whether to provide Congress with a key safety document on the Nevada nuclear waste plan.
Las Vegas police officers involved in Sunday’s fatal officer-involved shooting were identified Wednesday.
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