North Las Vegas police have recommended misdemeanor charges against a 51-year-old Clark County School District bus driver who while on duty struck a teenage girl in a crosswalk and pinned her under the vehicle’s wheels, severely injuring her in November.
With the state’s growth and a corresponding increase in court appeals, the Nevada Supreme Court soon with accept its 60,000th case. More than 59,700 cases have been filed with the Supreme Court since statehood in 1864, and the 60,000th should come in early 2012.
Rep. Shelley Berkley’s husband has been investing in troubled homes, renting out some but selling two this year for $86,000 profit, according to Republicans seeking to dent her U.S. Senate candidacy. Republicans charge the transactions show Dr. Larry Lehrner to be opportunistic in the search of profits in the midst of Nevada’s foreclosure crisis, at a time when Berkley has been highly critical of banks forcing constituents out of their homes.
A 33-year-old man died Wednesday after driving a pickup onto a sidewalk and striking a business on Decatur near Charleston boulevards, Las Vegas police said.
The state Supreme Court has temporarily suspended two Southern Nevada lawyers who have had run-ins with the law. In separate orders filed Nov. 17, the court suspended Las Vegas attorney Susana Ragos Chung and Henderson attorney Robert Weatherford.
Clark County commissioners Tuesday will again considering tweaking their ethics policy. Proposed changes include holding spouses of commissioners and the people they live with to the same standards as elected officials when they lobby the board: They can’t act as paid consultants or lobbyists for people or companies that deal with state and local government.
Mike Moser scored 34 points, and Chace Stanback had 19 to lift 18th-ranked UNLV to a 94-88 double-overtime victory over UC Santa Barbara in a game featuring a wild finish in the Thunderdome.
A married couple charged with slaying a man whose body was found cut up in a box this month in downtown Las Vegas were ordered held without bail Wednesday.
A Las Vegas area man tied to the sports betting operation ACME Group Trading has been indicted on charges of violating federal currency transaction laws. Robert Walker, 43, was charged with four counts of causing a financial institution, the Golden Nugget Race & Sports Book, to fail to file an accurate currency transaction report.
One day doesn’t make a month. But a 490-point surge by the Dow Jones industrial average, the largest single day gain since March 2009, gave the stock prices of several publicly traded casino operators and slot machine manufacturers a lift on the last day of November. The month as a whole was a mixed bag, however.
New Clark County School District teachers may get pushed out midyear before guiding their students on to the next grade. The cash-strapped district, at an impasse with its teachers union over cost-saving measures, is bracing for about 1,000 possible layoffs of licensed staff. The ax will fall if an arbitrator sides with the Clark County Education Association, which has refused to grant $78 million in contract concessions.
The Nevada Supreme Court has cleared the Silver Nugget of any liability for the shooting death five years ago of patron Allen Tyrone Smith Jr.
Ed Jensen confronted death face to face early in his career as a Las Vegas police officer. It was 1974, and he had just shot and killed a man who tried to rob a downtown gas station. Stunned, he watched the 23-year-old gurgle his last breath. Then he confronted Southern Nevada’s law enforcement culture face to face.
When a citizen in Clark County kills someone, prosecutors are there from the start of the investigation, often looking over the shoulder of detectives even before the body is moved. But when a police officer kills someone, prosecutors are nowhere to be found.
A June election that put North Las Vegas Ward 4 Councilman Wade Wagner into office by a margin of one vote will stand. District Judge Susan Scann ruled Wednesday that lawyers for former Councilman Richard Cherchio couldn’t convincingly demonstrate an illegal vote they said went to Wagner should be tossed and a new election called.
A conservative think tank filed a lawsuit Wednesday over what it calls a “long-standing violation of the state constitution,” public employees serving in the Legislature. But the Nevada Policy Research Institute’s lawsuit only challenges the right of state Sen. Mo Denis, D-Las Vegas, to serve in the Legislature when his primary employer is the state Public Utilities Commission.
