The grass-roots community organizing group ACORN on Wednesday entered a guilty plea to one count of felony compensation for registration of voters. The organization, which is in Chapter 7 bankruptcy, faces a maximum $5,000 fine.
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Wearing his late nephew’s high school varsity jacket, Ron Portaro stood Wednesday night in a parking lot on North Tenaya Way where the 22-year-old was gunned down and where police planned to conduct voluntary traffic checkpoints in a search for witnesses.
Las Vegas police officers involved in Sunday’s fatal officer-involved shooting were identified Wednesday.
Mortgage lenders who try to foreclose on distressed Nevada homeowners received a message Tuesday when the Nevada Supreme Court heard a trio of appeals related to its Foreclosure Mediation Program: Follow the rules or suffer the consequences. A majority of justices expressed growing frustration and even anger with lenders who don’t participate in good faith.
A 33-year-old woman pleaded guilty Tuesday to one count of first-degree arson for setting a New Year’s Day fire that displaced 40 people and did an estimated $200,000 in damage to an apartment complex.
A man accused of child molestation was arrested Tuesday in Henderson after being profiled on “America’s Most Wanted.”
A man who police said was shot and killed Sunday by his brother was identified Monday.
A convicted Las Vegas stock swindler who bilked millions out of investors and then became a federal informant was sentenced Monday to prison on a charge related to incest involving several of his eight children.
Three technicians charged with stealing electronic equipment at McCarran International Airport will likely end up in District Court as county prosecutors plan to take the criminal case to a grand jury for indictment.
Rhonda Foster answered the knock on her door Sunday afternoon and saw four police officers carrying rifles and lining the stairwell leading to her second-story apartment.
