For some longtime observers of the eccentricities of our local justice system, the weight room on the third floor of Family Court long ago came to symbolize the personal style of Judge Steven Jones.
More than 700 Clark County School District students were given ID cards last year in a trial tracking their whereabouts on school buses, according to Director of Transportation Frank Giordano.
The Nevada Division of Investigation should investigate Boulder City’s chief of police, the City Council decided Tuesday. Chief Thomas Finn is accused of ordering officers to delete emails to hide them from a possible public records request. Destroying a public record is a felony in Nevada.
Las Vegas residents continued flocking to Arizona on Tuesday in an effort to get their hands on the winning ticket for one of the highest jackpots in Powerball history.
Until now, Bobby Hauck has been given time to gradually build UNLV’s football program. The building phase is officially over.
A jury late Tuesday began deliberating the fate of Ralph Conti, a Henderson pediatrician, and Alfred Sapse, an 86-year-old medical researcher, charged with defrauding chronically ill patients through an experimental stem cell implant procedure. Conti, 51, has been practicing medicine here since 1990, and Sapse is a Romanian-educated physician not licensed in the United States.
Khoi Pham, 36, of California is suing Las Vegas police and an officer who “slammed” him to the floor of the Clark County Detention Center last year. Video of the Oct. 2, 2011, incident shows jail guard Sean Berndt walking up to a handcuffed Pham and pushing him back into a chair. One of Pham’s legs swings up, possibly striking the officer.
The Pentagon should make it easier to learn more about service members who are recognized for performing acts of heroism, according to the head of a media organization that chronicled dozens of stories about U.S. military valor overseas.
Emmanouil “Manny” Varagiannis, operator of a large escort service, was indicted by a federal grand jury Tuesday on a charge of unlawfully structuring roughly $2.4 million in transactions to evade financial reporting requirements. Varagiannis, 42, also the former general manager of the Olympic Garden strip club, faces a Dec. 7 arraignment.