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‘Teen Mom 2’ star arrested twice in six days

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

January 17, 2012 - 7:56 am

BOLIVIA, N.C. — A star of the MTV reality show "Teen Mom 2" has been arrested for the second time in less than a week in southeastern North Carolina.

Jenelle Evans was charged Monday night with violating a domestic violence protection order. Evans was still being held in the Brunswick County jail Tuesday morning, but officials at the jail didn’t have more details on the arrest.

A call to her lawyer was not immediately returned.

The 20-year-old was arrested last week and charged with making harassing phone calls and communicating threats.

Evans was also charged with assault in March. A month later, she received 12 months of probation and community service on a drug paraphernalia charge.

In August, she was charged with a probation violation after testing positive for marijuana and opiates.

Ally of Nevada Democratic chairwoman gets nearly $200K from party

By Jessica Hill / RJ

February 8, 2023 - 6:36 pm

Nevada State Democratic Party Chairwoman Judith Whitmer said the payments to ally Chris Roberts were legitimate and that he did much-needed work when former party staffers quit en masse in 2021.

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Ex-Maui official gets 10 years for taking $2M in bribes, Vegas trips

The Associated Press

February 8, 2023 - 6:12 pm

A former Maui County official has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for accepting $2 million in bribes from a Honolulu businessman in one of the biggest bribery cases in Hawaii history.

Clark County School District Superintendent Jesus Jara presents to the Senate Committee on Educ ...

Superintendents want money for students, safety

February 8, 2023 - 6:09 pm

Superintendents called on lawmakers to add more money for students and for school safety during a Senate committee meeting Wednesday.

The Twitter application is seen on a digital device April 25, 2022, in San Diego. (AP Photo/Gre ...

Twitter users find widespread problems, no comment from company

February 8, 2023 - 5:58 pm

It is not clear what caused Wednesday’s meltdown, but Twitter engineers and experts have been warning that the platform is at an increased risk of fraying since Musk fired most of the people who worked on keeping it running.

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Nevada COVID-19 cases remain near pandemic-low levels

By Mary Hynes / RJ

February 8, 2023 - 4:38 pm

Hospitalizations from COVID-19, flu and RSV continued to decline in the Silver State, according to health officials.

With a poster of a New York Post front page story about Hunter Biden’s emails on display ...

Hunter Biden investigation begins with a thud for House GOP

By Jarrell Dillard and Billy House Bloomberg News

February 8, 2023 - 2:42 pm

James Baker, a former lawyer for Twitter who also previously worked for the FBI, said the company’s actions were “fully consistent with the First Amendment.”

Henderson City Hall (Bizuayehu Tesfaye/Las Vegas Review-Journal)

Henderson council votes to ban evaporative cooling in future projects

By Mark Credico / RJ

February 8, 2023 - 2:27 pm

The Henderson City Council approved a bill to prohibit evaporative cooling systems and cooling towers in future projects.

New Sheriff Kevin McMahill aims to reduce crime 10% in ’23

By Sabrina Schnur / RJ

February 8, 2023 - 2:52 pm

Clark County Sheriff Kevin McMahill laid out his ambitious goals to reduce crime by 10 percent this year and build bridges between communities to reduce crime and possibly recruit residents.

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Deaths in Turkey, Syria quake pass 11K after massive quake

By Mehmet Guzel, Ghaith Alsayed and Suzan Fraser The Associated Press

February 8, 2023 - 7:10 am

With thousands of buildings toppled, it was not clear how many people might still be caught in the rubble.

Wet La Niña winter likely to bring more water into Lake Powell

By Colton Lochhead / RJ

February 8, 2023 - 9:54 am

One of the Colorado River’s two major reservoirs is expected to collect better than average runoff this year, thanks to an unusually wet La Niña pattern that dropped a deluge of snow up and down the basin.