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Here are your Thursday morning headlines.
The Clark County School District has no social media or text-messaging policies for employee-student communications and heavily relies on a vague, outdated video to educate employees about sexual misconduct, a Review-Journal investigation has found.
Former Nevada Assemblyman Wendell Williams, who sought to ban the use of chokeholds by police more than 25 years ago, is calling for a public reexamination of the Metropolitan Police Department’s neck restraint policy after a man died while in custody last week.
People who work in Nevada’s public schools are supposed to have clean records. They’re fingerprinted and screened at the local, state and national levels for criminal histories — but the process is far from foolproof.
A three-part Review-Journal investigation finds sexual misconduct in the Clark County School District stems predominantly from three issues: the district’s contract with the teachers’ union, loopholes in background checks and insufficient employee training.
A jury on Monday convicted Binh “Ben” Chung, a Las Vegas doctor accused of drugging and raping patients, of sexual assault and kidnapping charges.
Brandon Strauss died on Feb. 21, several days after he was scalded in what his adoptive father said was an accident in the shower. The Clark County Coroner ruled the injuries were inconsistent with an accident.
Tashii Brown died after a Metropolitan Police Department officer stunned him seven times with a Taser, punched him several times and put him in an unapproved chokehold.
Here are your Friday afternoon headlines.
Men allegedly tied up and robbed elderly woman resident early Thursday, then used her bank card at ATMs around the Las Vegas Valley.
Police need the public’s help identifying a woman who stabbed an elderly man in April in downtown Las Vegas.
Sherrice Iverson was 7 when she was lured from an arcade into a Primm casino restroom 20 years ago, forced into the largest stall, sexually assaulted and slowly strangled before her killer snapped her neck.
Here are your Thursday afternoon headlines.
Police surveillance video released Wednesday shows a 30-year-old man pacing around a downtown street corner in the dark of night for nearly 14 minutes before whacking the head of a mannequin with a hammer.