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A county Family Services employee has been fired following the death of a 7-year-old boy two days after the department received a call to its hotline alleging the boy had been abused.
The Nevada Supreme Court on Thursday cleared the way for developer Jim Rhodes to build several thousand homes on Blue Diamond Hill, the contentious property overlooking the Red Rock National Conservation Area.
Jake Howell, the Las Vegas teenager arrested last month with an unloaded semiautomatic rifle inside his car at the Northwest Career and Technical Academy, pleaded guilty in District Court to a weapons charge Thursday.
The Nevada Supreme Court handed off to legislators a Nevada State Education Association business tax petition Thursday, in effect crying “Let the tax battle begin.”
A 22-year-old carjacker who stole a Nevada state trooper’s cruiser then fatally shot himself in the chest with the patrolman’s shotgun was on probation in Florida for carrying a concealed weapon.
The federal trial of former power broker Harvey Whittemore, charged in a scheme to unlawfully funnel $138,000 in campaign contributions to U.S. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, has been put off until April 9.
Michael McBain, a former National Hockey League player and Las Vegas Wrangler, was sentenced on Wednesday to 4 to 16 years in prison for molesting a girl under 14 years of age over a four-year period.
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