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Conboy named investigations chief

December 16, 2010 - 12:00 am

CARSON CITY -- Outgoing public safety director Jerry Hafen has named Elizabeth Conboy as chief of the Nevada Investigation Division.

Conboy began working for the state in 1989 as an investigator with the Gaming Control Board, and in 1994 joined the Department of Public Safety in Las Vegas. She's also worked in the Division of Parole and Probation.

Conboy received a bachelor's degree in criminal justice and a master's in public administration from the University of Nevada, Reno. She's also a graduate of the FBI National Academy.

U.S. Rep. Dina Titus, D-Nev., hosts a round table discussion for the public to discuss sustaina ...

Las Vegas is heating up, drying out and running out of land, experts say

By Patrick Blennerhassett / RJ

August 27, 2025 - 5:17 pm

The biggest barrier to accessing most of this land is the federal government, said panelists at a recent event hosted by U.S. Rep. Dina Titus.

Jennifer Vasquez Sura, left, hugs her husband Kilmar Abrego Garcia at the Immigration and Custo ...

SAUNDERS: Why Team Trump wants to deport Kilmar Abrego Garcia

By Debra J. Saunders / RJ

August 27, 2025 - 4:37 pm

The president wants him out, but the Salvadoran illegal immigrant wants to stay in a country he calls “corrupt.”

This new education, job training hub aims to change lives in Las Vegas

By Ricardo Torres-Cortez / RJ

August 27, 2025 - 5:20 pm

Dignitaries were on hand to celebrate the completion of the “Historic Westside Education and Training Center,” a first of its kind in Las Vegas.

FILE - Susan Monarez, President Donald Trump's nominee to be director of the Centers for Diseas ...

CDC director out after less than a month on the job, federal officials say

By Mike Stobbe The Associated Press

August 27, 2025 - 3:31 pm

Susan Monarez, 50, was the agency’s 21st director and the first to pass through Senate confirmation following a 2023 law.

Cars are seen at a Las Vegas car dealership on Sahara Avenue, Wednesday, March 5, 2025. (Sam Mo ...

How car buyers, dealerships are being impacted by Nevada cyberattack

By Emerson Drewes / RJ

August 27, 2025 - 4:25 pm

Buyers could face delays getting their new vehicles registered because of the cyberattack

‘Malicious actors’ moved data out of network, Nevada officials say

By Jessica Hill and McKenna Ross / RJ

August 27, 2025 - 6:41 pm

Investigators found evidence indicating some data was moved outside of Nevada’s networks by “malicious actors” during a “sophisticated, ransomware-based” cyberattack first identified Sunday, officials confirmed.

New COVID shots approved, but FDA limits access for many Americans

By Matthew Perrone Associated Press

August 27, 2025 - 10:54 am

The FDA’s framework for the new COVID-19 vaccines presents new barriers to access for millions of Americans who would have to prove their risk.

U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Jeanine Pirro speaks with reporters in the James Bra ...

Prosecutors fail to indict sandwich thrower in Trump’s DC public safety operation

By ALANNA DURKIN RICHER Associated Press

August 27, 2025 - 9:01 am

Sean Charles Dunn was arrested on an assault charge after he threw a sub-style sandwich at a Customs and Border Protection agent.

‘Absolutely incomprehensible’: 2 children, shooter dead after attack at Minneapolis Catholic school

By Steve Karnowski, Mark Vancleave and Giovanna Dell’Orto The Associated Press

August 27, 2025 - 2:24 pm

The children who died were 8 and 10. Fourteen other kids and three octogenarian parishioners were wounded but expected to survive, the chief said.

Smoke from the Dragon Bravo fire settles into the Grand Canyon along the South Rim near Mather ...

How a ‘good fire’ in the Grand Canyon exploded into a raging inferno

Jack Dolan, Los Angeles Times

August 27, 2025 - 6:28 am

The modest, 120-acre controlled burn exploded into a “megafire,” destroying a historic lodge and other buildings on the North Rim of the Grand Canyon.