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New video backs accusation of Family Court abuse
 

A businessman’s claim he wasn’t combative with marshals before he was beaten and stunned with a stun gun while handcuffed in custody appears to be backed up in Family Court security video that has recently surfaced.

Man who sent threatening letter to mayor pleads guilty to conspiracy

A Las Vegas man who sent threatening letters to Mayor Carolyn Goodman over a workers compensation dispute pleaded guilty Monday to a misdemeanor conspiracy charge. Alfred Blackwell, 54, was sentenced to six months of probation and ordered to stay away from Goodman.

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Drug charges against marijuana grower dropped

Clark County prosecutors on Monday dropped a 15-month old drug possession case against a 50-year-old man who held a state-authorized medical marijuana card.

 
Online kill plot: ‘Jihad Jane’ gets 10 years in prison

A troubled Pennsylvania woman who called herself “Jihad Jane” online and plotted to kill a Swedish artist was sentenced Monday to 10 years in prison after telling a judge she had been consumed by thoughts of a Muslim holy war.

Bail set for 2 suspects in December road rage shooting

Bail was set Monday at $500,000 for a 21-year-old Arizona woman and her boyfriend who remain jailed following their arrest in a Christmas week shooting that left a motorist critically wounded on the Las Vegas Strip.