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Gaming board deploying officers to Las Vegas Strip casinos

The state Gaming Control Board is pitching in on the investigation of the person who shot hundreds of people from his hotel suite at Mandalay Bay and will deploy plainclothes officers at Strip casinos as a safety measure.

Ex-Boston police commissioner relates to Las Vegas shootings

Edward Davis, the former commissioner that led the Boston Police Department during the 2013 Boston Marathon bombings, was a last-minute surprise speaker at the Tuesday opening of the 17th annual Global Gaming Expo at the Sands Expo and Convention Center.

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Nevada weed transport legal battle hinges on timing, justice says

In oral arguments Tuesday before the high court, representatives from the Nevada Department of Taxation and IADON continued their monthslong dispute over who should be allowed to distribute marijuana and restock pot shops in the Silver State.

Unemployment insurance rate in Nevada not likely to change

A state panel on Tuesday recommended that the average state unemployment insurance rate for the state’s nearly 70,000 employers be maintained at 1.95 percent next year.

Gun scare prompts lockdowns of 3 schools in Pahrump

Within hours of the deadly attack in Las Vegas, authorities in Pahrump were forced to lock down one school and investigate reports of guns at two others.

GOP’s fundraiser role passed on to Oscarson

Former Republican Assemblyman Paul Anderson’s jump to the Governor’s Office of Economic Development not only leaves a hole in the Nevada Legislature, but also in the Assembly GOP’s fundraising efforts.

Juvenile immigration case backlog grows in Nevada

New federal data shows that minors who land before a federal immigration judge in Las Vegas also are more likely to receive legal representation than in the rest of the U.S. — even though 30 percent still go without.

 
Freed O.J. Simpson will live in Las Vegas, official says

For the first time in nine years, O.J. Simpson is free. Although speculation raged about where the former football star would head next, a state official said Simpson would live in Las Vegas for now.

 
O.J. Simpson released from Northern Nevada prison

O.J. Simpson became a free man at 12:08 a.m. Sunday when he was released from Lovelock Correctional Center in Northern Nevada.

Four inducted into Nevada Newspaper Hall of Fame

The Nevada Press Association on Saturday inducted four new members to the Nevada Newspaper Hall of Fame — Myram Borders, Bill Roberts, Alf Doten and A.L. Higginbotham.

Nevada Press Association Awards 2017

Awards won by the Las Vegas Review-Journal and its sister publications Saturday at the annual Nevada Press Association Better Newspaper Contest banquet in Carson City:

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