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Lawyers practicing in Clark County have one week left to rate sitting judges in the 2011 Judicial Performance Evaluation sponsored by the Las Vegas Review-Journal.
Alyssa Otremba was less than 100 yards from home. The Arbor View freshman was 100 yards from marching with the school band at half time. One hundred yards from joining a dance class with her sister.
A mental health examination was ordered Friday for Alfred Sapse, an 85-year-old Las Vegas man charged in a fraud scheme involving the use of experimental stem cell implant procedures.
With rental fraud on the rise both nationally and in the valley, Las Vegas police announced Thursday ways citizens can protect themselves and neighbors from being victimized.
CARSON CITY — The Nevada Supreme Court for the third time has upheld the death penalty against Edward Thomas Wilson, convicted in the 1979 killing of an undercover Reno police officer for whom a memorial to fallen officers is named.
Three people were arrested Thursday in Las Vegas and charged with operating a mortgage and foreclosure scam.
A Pahrump man was arrested on 5,000 counts of child pornography Thursday, according to the Nye County sheriff’s office.
James Henderson Haines, a Las Vegas man who robbed three banks and five other businesses at gunpoint in two weeks last November, was sentenced Thursday to nearly two decades in federal prison.
Las Vegas police last week arrested the husband of state Sen. Elizabeth Halseth on a charge of open and gross lewdness in connection with a dispute between the couple in their home.