Being arrested by his own sheriff’s department isn’t going to slow down Rick Marshall. A leading candidate to replace Nye County Sheriff Tony DeMeo in November’s election, Marshall held a 30-minute press conference Thursday night to tell his side of the story after returning to work.
While smoking cigarettes or using tobacco products on Clark County School District campuses is prohibited, the use of e-cigarettes is allowed because of a loophole in the district’s smoking policy, which officials began closing Thursday. The problem is that e-cigarettes don’t fall under the definition of “smoking” or “tobacco products” prohibited under a Clark County School District policy last revised in 2004.
Las Vegas first-grader, one of 4,589 Clark County students to enter the countywide 2014 Mojave Max Emergence Contest, found out Thursday that she’s the winner.
Rancher Cliven Bundy doubled down Thursday on racist statements he made to the New York Times. Bundy spoke to reporters Thursday afternoon near his ranch in Bunkerville, repeating sentiments that “the Negro community” living in Las Vegas Valley public housing looks like slaves to him.
Police were called to the scene in the 6700 block of Del Rey Avenue at about 4:15 p.m. Thursday. Officers found a person who who had been shot in the head, but they said the wound did not appear to be life-threatening.
The family of the late Las Vegas Justice Court Marshal Louis “Ziggy” Reale has added his former boss, Justice of the Peace Diana Sullivan, and two of her staff members to a federal wrongful death lawsuit. Reale hanged himself March 21 in the garage of his Las Vegas home.
University of Nevada, Reno officials want to know who is behind phony fliers advertising an appearance by former Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin.
Both supporters and detractors of Bunkerville rancher Cliven Bundy on Thursday harshly criticized racist remarks he made about “the Negro” as he wondered if African-Americans getting government support might be “better off as slaves.”
A man who wielded a butcher knife — at times nakedly — from atop a northwest valley roof was taken into Las Vegas police Thursday after a five-hour standoff.
Two 10-year-olds from Colorado were caught selling and trading their grandparents’ legally-purchased marijuana at school, making a profit of $11.
