Panel gives up on Yucca, seeks support for other sites

A blue ribbon panel on nuclear waste issued a preliminary finding Friday that Congress should change the law that singles out Yucca Mountain for disposing highly radioactive spent fuel from the nation’s commercial power reactors.

Woman found dead in central valley home

Police are investigating whether a 68-year-old woman found dead at her central valley home Friday afternoon was murdered.

Ex-commisioner Malone completes prison term

Former Clark County Commissioner Lance Malone took another step toward freedom Friday when he severed his ties with the Federal Bureau of Prisons.

NLV voting ‘crimes’ not likely to be prosecuted

The man who voted in a disputed North Las Vegas election — though he is not a resident of the city — may have unwittingly committed a crime. But such cases are rarely prosecuted in Clark County, officials said.

Ex-NBA player arrested on drug charges in Arizona

Arizona authorities allege former NBA basketball player Samaki Walker tried to eat marijuana as a Department of Public Safety officer approached his 2002 Mercedes-Benz following a routine traffic stop in Kingman on Thursday.

Washington state takes steps to resume licensing for Yucca Mountain

YAKIMA, Wash. — Washington state and South Carolina filed another lawsuit Friday to compel the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to resume its consideration of a nuclear waste repository in Nevada, Washington Attorney General Rob McKenna said in Seattle.

Questions surround inmate’s death in Clark County jail

The lawyer for a man accused of beating and stabbing his cellmate to death Friday at the county jail questioned why authorities didn’t segregate his mentally ill client.

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