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The mother of the two of the three children killed in a June mobile home fire in Las Vegas was arrested Thursday on charges of second-degree murder and child neglect, according to the county booking logs.
Brenda Stokes stood stoically as a prosecutor called her a killer and a judge raised her bail Friday. She avoided the gaze of the enraged family sitting behind her in the courtroom, but that won’t last forever, said the mother of 10-year-old Jade Morris.
A fire inside an Olive Garden in Henderson caused an evacuation of the restaurant Thursday afternoon, the Clark County Fire Department said.
A former insurance agent and amateur archaeologist convicted of looting ancient Indian graves in the Northern Nevada desert and later offering $10,000 in opals for a hit man to kill a former business partner has died in prison in Oregon.
Authorities found a body Thursday they think is Jade Morris, a 10-year-old girl missing for almost a week.
Her body was discovered in an unfinished development in a North Las Vegas neighborhood near Deer Springs Way and North Fifth Street.