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Drivers in California can legally read a map on their hand-held cellphones while behind the wheel, a state appeals court ruled Thursday. The 5th District Court of Appeal reversed the case of a Fresno man who was ticketed in January 2012 for looking at a map on his iPhone 4 while stuck in traffic.

The body of a Las Vegas woman who may have been strangled by her roommate was positively identified Thursday as Sheila Harrick Linke by the Mohave County coroner in Arizona.

The Nye County Sheriff’s Office is asking for the public’s help in locating a man suspected of stealing a jug of cash off a convenience store countertop. The money was meant for a person with a medical condition.

A 27-year-old Las Vegas man has been arrested in connection with the shooting death of a pimp who reportedly had been bragging about the productivity of one of his girls, according to an arrest report released by the Clark County district attorney’s office on Thursday.

Jurors have deliberated more than three days without reaching a verdict in the sexual assault trial of Steven Farmer, a certified nursing assistant accused of victimizing five female patients in 2008 at Centennial Hills Hospital Medical Center.

Nakia Woodson, 38, a Democratic candidate for the vacant state Assembly District 3 seat, has been charged with lying about her income to fraudulently obtain welfare benefits, according to documents obtained by the Review-Journal.

The case involves alleged fraudulent financial transactions not related to the charges the Nevada Commission on Judicial Discipline sustained against Jones in December tied to his handling of a romantic affair with a prosecutor who appeared before him.