Impact Nevada: Analyzing 2011 Legislature

The Impact Nevada TV program for this weekend examines some of the final votes in the 2011 Legislature session, which ended Tuesday. (9:30 p.m., Ch. 10).

Animal cruelty, gambling, wildlife bills become law

Cooney’s bill became Cooney’s Law on Friday when Gov. Brian Sandoval signed into law legislation that makes it a felony to unjustifiably mutilate, torture, maim or kill animals.

North Las Vegas man gets prison in underage sex case

Darryl Walizer is 43, and he has a thing for underage girls. He has committed sex offenses in Ohio, Virginia and Nevada. But on Friday, a federal judge in Las Vegas made sure he will be an elderly man before he has the chance to victimize teenage girls again.

Investigation: NRC leader hid information in Yucca case

Gregory Jaczko, the nation’s top nuclear regulator, is back in the center of controversy following an internal investigation that concluded he was not forthright with colleagues in taking steps that halted the Yucca Mountain program.

Quon testifies about home foreclosure

Nancy Quon, the construction defects lawyer at the center of a federal investigation of homeowners associations, has testified that she let her home slip into foreclosure in the months leading up to a suspicious fire there.

North Las Vegas files federal lawsuit in sewage battle

North Las Vegas is taking its sewer scuffle with Clark County from the outhouse to the courthouse. The city filed a federal lawsuit late Thursday in the ongoing battle over its discharge of treated sewage into a county-owned flood control channel.

Future of Cpl. Klinger’s beloved hot dogs in doubt

TOLEDO, Ohio — A family feud slathered with accusations of financial misdeeds is threatening the future of an Ohio restaurant whose hot dogs were made famous by cross-dressing Cpl. Max Klinger on “M-A-S-H.”

Box labeled ‘grandma’s urn’ left at Goodwill store

FENTON, Mich. — State police in Michigan are trying to find who left what appear to be a grandmother’s cremated remains in an urn at a Goodwill store near Flint, Mich.

Police: Assault suspect actually holding mink carcass

HOQUIAM, Wash. — Police say a Washington man who was holding a dead weasel when he assaulted his girlfriend’s ex-boyfriend was actually yielding a mink carcass.

Chimp attack victim gets face transplant in Boston

BOSTON — Doctors at a Boston hospital have performed a full face transplant on the Connecticut woman who was mauled and blinded two years ago by her friend’s pet chimpanzee.

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