Sheriffs in most Nevada counties have come out against a background check initiative that gun control advocates are supporting on the ballot this November, but the top cop in the largest police agency in the state says he’ll sit this one out.
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“Just do it for Dave” is what Metropolitan Police Department Sgt. Dave Callen told potential participants before a Saturday event that was part of the 40th annual Nevada Police & Fire Games.
In an angry telephone interview Friday, Joshua Cluff, whose home was targeted in the July 13 bomb attack in Panaca, said Glenn Franklin Jones never made a threat or uttered a harsh word to him in the years they knew each other.
A preliminary study in Brazil found that a mosquito species detected in Nevada and other states can spread Zika virus, The Associated Press reported Thursday.
In 2005, Albert Okura paid $425,000 cash for Amboy, California — a clutch of orphaned buildings in the middle of the Mojave Desert, a long-forgotten, pit stop somewhere out there between Las Vegas and Los Angeles. The soul of the town is Roy’s Motel and Cafe.
It’s been a vision of UNLV leaders for years: A widely supported medical school educating the region’s future doctors and bearing the university’s name.
A Nevada Highway Patrol sergeant who took photos of his erect penis and sent them to a dispatcher in the Las Vegas office of the agency in 2008 had his termination upheld Friday by a state hearing officer.
The past several decades have welcomed a new voice in the controversial topic of sex work — sex-positive sex workers. They enjoy getting paid for sex and are tired of getting negative attention.
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