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A ghastly crime took a sinister turn on Friday, when authorities confirmed that a 19-year-old Henderson woman now charged with killing her newborn son once left a stillborn baby in a trash bin at The Mirage.

In June 2006, Las Vegas police questioned Carmela Camero after a newborn girl was found in a trash processing area at the hotel. The 16-year-old told police she gave birth to the stillborn infant in her hotel room. Then she panicked, wrapped the baby in a towel and put it in a trash bin outside her room, she told detectives.

The coroner's office could not determine how the baby died. Police did not recommend criminal charges.

Henderson police arrested Camero on Wednesday on one count of murder in the slaying of her newborn son, Jude.

MONDAY

MAN ACCUSES BOXER

A man who claims to be the target of a shooting outside a Boulder Highway roller rink said boxing champion Floyd Mayweather Jr. threatened him less than an hour before the shots were fired.

Quincey Williams said he saw Mayweather at the rink, and the boxer confronted him over a text message from two months ago.

When Williams left with a friend, several shots were fired at their car.

Police searched a residence and a vehicle owned by Mayweather, who denies any part in the shooting.

TUESDAY

BELTWAY BIDS, PART III

U.S. District Court Judge Robert Jones overturned the Clark County Commission's decision in July to award a road contract to Las Vegas Paving, which bid $4.6 million higher than Fisher Sand and Gravel.

This is the second time the courts have ordered commissioners to revisit the disputed contract for widening on the Las Vegas Beltway. Commissioners Tom Collins and Steve Sisolak, who were accused of pro-union bias, won't participate.

WEDNESDAY

A GIFT FOR GRANTS

UNLV received a $14 million donation to establish an institute to help coordinate research and social outreach programs at the university.

The money, from the Lincy Foundation, a nonprofit formed by billionaire Kirk Kerkorian, will help establish the Lincy Institute at UNLV.

THURSDAY

IMMIGRATION ANGER

A town hall meeting on a partnership between Las Vegas police and federal immigration officials drew a bitterly divided crowd.

On one side sat civil rights leaders and others who fear racial profiling and other impacts from the partnership, which facilitates enforcement of immigration laws on people who have been arrested.

On the other side sat those who favor tougher immigration enforcement. They repeatedly interrupted the meeting, especially when a translator spoke in Spanish.

FRIDAY

PAIR GUILTY IN BOMBING

Omar Rueda-Denvers and Porfirio Duarte-Herrera were found guilty of first-degree murder for a 2007 fatal bombing at a Luxor parking garage.

The jury will now decide whether the two men should be put to death.

The bombing killed Willebaldo Dorantes Antonio, a 24-year-old employee of the Luxor food court who authorities say was targeted because he was in a relationship with Rueda-Denvers' ex-girlfriend.