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Las Vegas police see increase in local firearms registration

While gun owners await Gov. Brian Sandoval’s pledged veto on a bill requiring background checks for private sales like laws in other states, Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department statistics show a spike in local firearms registration.

Government monitoring of phone records is laid bare

WASHINGTON — A leaked document has laid bare the monumental scope of the government’s surveillance of Americans’ phone records – hundreds of millions of calls – in the first hard evidence of a massive data collection program aimed at combating terrorism under powers granted by Congress after the 9/11 attacks.

Governor signs sex trafficking bill aimed at pimps

Gov. Brian Sandoval on Thursday signed a bill creating the new crime of sex trafficking that is directed at pimps who take over the lives of young people, often homeless and runway children, and turn them into prostitutes.

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Sandoval’s office barraged with calls to veto Nevada gun control bill

Workers in Gov. Brian Sandoval’s office have been so bombarded by calls from people who want him to veto the gun background check bill that they set up an automated phone system to allow “voting” on Senate Bill 221.

Park Service ripped over red tape on Lake Mead search

WASHINGTON — The National Park Service got taken to the woodshed on Thursday by members of Congress infuriated after hearing that red tape at Lake Mead prevented a family from recovering the body of a slain Las Vegas cabdriver for almost a year.

Rio robbery accomplice skips bail

An accomplice to the brazen 2011 armed robbery of a Pai Gow table at the Rio is on the lam.

North Las Vegas man gets four years for tax crime

A North Las Vegas man was sentenced Thursday to four years in federal prison for filing false tax returns in the names of other people.

Brooks’ replacement likes Assembly job, will try to keep it

Tyrone Thompson, the Nevada Legislature’s newest face, Assemblyman Tyrone Thompson, came to the capital in difficult circumstances but says he plans to run for the seat in 2014.