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When a high-ranking Arizona lawmaker was detained last weekend by Phoenix police after a roadside fight with his girlfriend, it looked like he was headed to jail. Then the state constitution swooped in and saved him. A Nevada legislator in a similar spot would not be so lucky.
Federal prosecutors have identified 75 to 100 co-conspirators, including judges, attorneys and former police officers, at various levels of a massive fraud scheme involving Las Vegas Valley homeowners associations, the Las Vegas Review-Journal has learned.
Erica Evans holds “Brother Bear,” which holds the ashes of her son, Dominique. On Friday she took the stuffed animal to court, where she spoke at the sentencing of six youths who killed her 19-year-old son in a random street robbery in 2009.
A cabdriver was shot and killed Friday morning in the east valley, and Las Vegas police are looking for two people caught on the taxi’s camera moments before he died.
Under a proposed state budget, the Spring Mountain Youth Camp at Mount Charleston would lose $1 million, requiring the closure of a dorm for 20 youths.
The streak ended at 29 days. During that period, Las Vegas police had not one investigation of a strangulation, stabbing or shooting that resulted in even one slaying making the agency’s recorded books.
A former Pahrump Valley High School student who graduated near the top of his class with dreams of becoming a hedge fund manager now faces criminal charges for hacking the school computer system and changing grades for money.
What was being investigated as a possible murder-suicide involving an older couple is now being called a natural death followed by a suicide, Las Vegas police said Thursday evening.
