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Judge in Adelson lawsuit subject to unusual scrutiny amid Review-Journal sale

Just over a month before Sheldon Adelson’s family was revealed as the new owner of the Las Vegas Review-Journal, three reporters at the newspaper received an unusual assignment passed down from the newspaper’s corporate management: Drop everything and spend two weeks monitoring all activity of three Clark County judges.

Metro officer wounded in south valley shooting, suspect arrested

A multiagency manhunt ended around dusk Thursday in the Southern Highlands housing community, where Metropolitan Police arrested a man accused of shooting an officer that morning at a south valley long-term motel.

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Bellagio craps scammers plead guilty

A former Bellagio craps dealer and a man who placed phantom bets at the casino pleaded guilty Thursday in what prosecutors called a million-dollar swindle.

3 indicted in home invasions, sexual assaults

A trio of men terrorized the southwest Las Vegas valley for weeks, jumping fences, kicking in back doors to homes and savagely attacking whomever they found inside.

Hearing on new trial in huge mortgage fraud case opens

Defense lawyers took their opening shots in federal court Wednesday in their bid to get a new trial for a once high-profile couple convicted in the largest mortgage fraud case in Nevada.

Family of man killed by police endured home invasion five months before father shot

Police shot and killed a man Monday night outside his northeast valley home — the same residence police responded to just five months earlier on a July morning when the man’s 23-year-old son fought back against a pair of armed home-invasion robbers, shooting and killing one.

CCSD: Overnight custodian arrested for ‘lewd acts’ while alone in classroom

New details were released Wednesday about the arrest of a 42-year-old Clark County School District employee who police say performed “lewd acts on himself” 36 times while working as an overnight custodian at a southwest valley elementary school.

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