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Investigators: Man running from officers accidentally fell to his death

Alejandro Sanchez-Escoto didn’t commit suicide, and the officers chasing him didn’t cause his death. His fall from a highway overpass last year was a tragic accident, investigators said at a public fact-finding review on Thursday.

Supreme Court orders $250,000 payment in deadly Las Vegas police crash

The family of a Las Vegas man killed in 2007 when his vehicle collided with a police car that ran a red light will receive a $250,000 payment, but must return to District Court to determine if the attorneys fees it received were justified, the Nevada Supreme Court decided Thursday.

Dad of Sparks school shooter hit son in 2012

The father of the Sparks Middle School shooter pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor child abuse charge last year after he self-reported to school counselors his son struck him and the father hit him back, blackening the boy’s eye.

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