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A Henderson SWAT officer was suspended last month pending an internal investigation into shenanigans with a SWAT co-worker. The Review-Journal has learned that suspended officer shocked a fellow cop with a handheld stun gun while clowning around at the office.
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Amy Montoya of Las Vegas has qualified to represent Nevada at the 2013 Veteran World Fencing Championships in Varna, Bulgaria, in October.
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For ninth-grader Cristian Lopez, visiting the University of Nevada, Las Vegas was “like a whole other world.”
At this Guatemalan/Mexican/Salvadoran restaurant, the house specialty is rib-eye steak, ribs, sausage, stuffed bell peppers, refried beans, sour cream, cheese, rice, Russian salad, fried plantains and onions. Now that’s a meal.
For the past several months, the Bronze Cafe in the Gay and Lesbian Community Center of Southern Nevada was a nice little secret. Not anymore.
A state lawmaker on Thursday called on Clark County officials to investigate conditions in group homes for foster children and juvenile offenders and was told that a county investigation already is underway.
A fire near U.S. Highway 95 and Charleston Boulevard injured two people and damaged two houses Thursday.
Another person has quit the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department’s Use of Force Board.
The Obama administration has come out in favor of special protections for rich fossil beds lying north of Las Vegas, although it says more studies need to determine how best to manage the area.
A man fell 150 feet Wednesday morning while working on a sign at MGM Grand. Landscaping broke his fall, and he survived with serious injuries, Clark County Deputy Fire Chief Jon Klassen said.
A home in east Las Vegas was decimated by a blaze that started in a minivan Wednesday afternoon and caused $175,000 in damage.
