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Las Vegas man accused of shooting at his brother’s ex-girlfriend

A Las Vegas man is accused of an attempt this week to shoot a woman who is expected to testify against him and his brother, according to an arrest report the Las Vegas Review-Journal obtained Thursday.

CCSD warns parents of possible abduction attempts

A string of interactions between Clark County students and suspicious car drivers in the southwest valley has prompted the school district to issue warning letters to parents of children who attend three elementary schools.

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State terminates 2 officials at agency where supervisor had three DUI arrests

The head of the state department that oversees the Nevada Transportation Authority fired two top officials Wednesday after a Review-Journal investigation found lapses in background checks for an agency supervisor with multiple DUI arrests.

Nevada receives $1.17m to help erase backlog of untested rape kits

Legislature’s Interim Finance Committee authorizes use of the funding to continue the effort to test some 7,800 untested kits — some decade old — collected after sexual assaults.

Survivor of attempted ‘suicide by cop’ thanks Reno officers

A trio of Reno officers said Arthur Richardson Jr. pointed his gun at them while he suggested he wanted them to kill him. But Richardson didn’t die after they fired their 9mm revolvers 14 times.They ended up helping save his life, and he later apologized for putting them in the “precarious position of doing what they had to do.”

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