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Reward rises to $1,000 for vandalism suspects

The reward has quadrupled to $1,000 for tips leading to the arrest of four hooded and masked figures who scaled the wall enclosing Coronado High School and vandalized the Henderson campus last month.

Man who chased taggers had history of heart disease

Like many people, Richard Hood hated graffiti. He felt it degraded the community and harmed local businesses. So when Hood chased a pair of taggers away from his newly opened banquet hall Thursday afternoon, his business partner Joan Cluberton was not surprised.

Murder charges dropped against pair in teen’s slaying

Days before the murder trial for two teenage defendants was to begin, prosecutors on Thursday dismissed the charges alleging the pair fatally shot a 16-year-old girl at an east valley bus stop in May.

Institute defends challenge to public employees’ right to serve in Legislature

The face of a conservative Las Vegas think tank’s lawsuit challenging the right of public employees to serve in the Legislature is a former Republican operative who in published reports has called President Barack Obama “corrupt” and his administration “Marxist.”

Judge won’t sentence former prosecutor

A district court judge on Thursday recused himself from sentencing former prosecutor David Schubert for drug possession because the judge felt he got off easy.

Challenge of police inquest policy argued in federal court

A judge on Wednesday heard Las Vegas police officers’ arguments against the revamped coroner’s inquest process. Lawyer Joshua Reisman argued that the new process, which includes an ombudsman to represent the family of the person killed by police, transformed a fact-finding process into an adversarial hearing that violated the officers’ constitutional rights.

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