A memorial is scheduled this weekend in Las Vegas for Democratic Assemblywoman Peggy Pierce.
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The Clark County Commission is expected to revisit its ordinance banning horse tripping, also called horse roping, after members of Nevada’s Legislative Hispanic Caucus expressed disappointment at a 6-1 vote on Tuesday keeping the prohibition intact.
Gov. Brian Sandoval on Wednesday signed into law Sen. Tick Segerblom’s bill to set up state-regulated medical marijuana dispensaries and grow farms.
Clark County residents could soon be forced to pay an extra 0.15 percent in sales taxes to boost law enforcement and an extra 3 cents per gallon of gas for build new roads.
Nevada Assembly Speaker Marilyn Kirkpatrick said Wednesday she is not pushing Majestic Realty’s initiative to partner with the state to build a $770 million domed 60,000-seat stadium near the UNLV campus.
A modern-day abolitionist movement that includes Las Vegas law enforcement officials, the state attorney general’s office, legislators and grass-roots activists wants to reclassify the pimps who dominate the world’s oldest profession as modern-day slave traders.
Like infinite numbers of women before her, Heather Robbins came to Las Vegas with a bit of luggage and a big dream: to someday become a showgirl; or at the very least, to dance in a strip club and maybe work her way up by catching the attention of somebody influential.
Pretty polka-dot bows on top of heads, GPS monitors on the ankles. Teenagers having babies, then leaving them at home with grandma so they can make money on the streets, in motel suites.
Marc Schifalacqua, a Clark County prosecutor, has put plenty of pimps behind bars for pandering girls and women. He’s the first to say that Las Vegas is one big revolving door for pimps who commonly receive light sentences even if they abuse prostitutes or pander minors.
The lawyer for former Nevada Assemblyman Steven Brooks, charged in a car chase and a police confrontation in California, asked a judge Teusday that his client be enrolled in a court program that will push him into mental health treatment.
The estimated cost for UNLV’s proposed domed, 60,000-seat stadium is $548.4 million — the biggest chunk of the university’s $900 million stadium project, the Review-Journal has learned.
Three people, including a former state lawmaker, are seeking ousted Assemblyman Steven Brooks’ old job.
Clark County commissioners disagree about how quickly to move forward on appointing a replacement for Steven Brooks, who was expelled from the Assembly on Thursday.
A proposal downtown Las Vegas boosters view as a no-brainer still faces plenty of skepticism in the Legislature and even at City Hall.
Nevada doesn’t have statewide gun registration requirements, but people in Clark County are subject to registration rules.
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Nicholas Bott, 44, had been facing a felony charge of child abuse and a gross misdemeanor count of contact with a minor.
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