A discussion of allocating extra taxicab permits for special events erupted Tuesday into a display of driver anger. The Nevada Taxicab Authority had to recess its meeting twice to allow the tumult, including frequent chants of “no more cabs,” from the more than 300 drivers to subside.
Teachers union leaders are lashing out at their former executive director and the Clark County School District superintendent in response to Sunday’s Review-Journal stories about huge salaries drawn by union officials and the questionable spending of $2.4 million in taxpayer funds.
Wesley Barrientos, who lost his legs to a roadside bomb in Iraq, cranked his three-wheeled cycle with his hands and arms Tuesday, headed north on U.S. 95 from Laughlin with fellow veteran Jeremy Staat riding a bicycle beside him. They were in the ninth day of a 4,163-mile ride from the Wall of Valor in Bakersfield, Calif., to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall in Washington, D.C.
Prosecutors were poised to call witnesses today to a grand jury investigating allegations that Harvey Whittemore funneled tens of thousands of dollars in illegal campaign contributions to Nevada federal races. Sources said two dozen or more witnesses have been subpoenaed, including Whittemore business associates, family members and employees.
The FBI and the Nevada attorney general have divvied up the workload in their investigation into Kathleen Vermillion’s use of charity funds, a source said. The FBI is focusing on finances related to the Homeless Youth Foundation, which Vermillion established in 2008 to ensure the financial security of the Nevada Partnership for Homeless Youth while managing its assets and distributing funds to other nonprofits.
The race for the Las Vegas Ward 2 City Council seat just got feistier, with Bob Beers saying developers should be banned from serving on the Planning Commission. Another candidate, Ric Truesdell, in turn, called Beers “a partisan hack.” Truesdell is on the Planning Commission.”
A 26-year-old Las Vegas woman pleaded guilty to a felony Tuesday for making a false bomb threat on Sept. 11, 2010. According to her indictment, Miki Sudo claimed her boyfriend, a passenger on U.S. Airways Flight 399 from Las Vegas to Phoenix, was going to “blow up the plane.”
Everybody loves being first.
Las Vegas-born and -raised artist/author Ashlee Fletcher put her illustration bachelor’s degree from Laguna College of Art & Design to work in her first book, “My Dog, My Cat,” published by Tanglewood Books.
PORT ROYAL, S.C. — Authorities say a naked man who stole a fire truck and drove off, killing a pedestrian and hitting six vehicles, will be charged with murder.
A Florida man charged with involuntary manslaughter after he punched a man who later died at a Strip casino will argue to a jury he was defending himself and his family, his attorney said.
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