Rep. Shelley Berkley’s husband has been investing in troubled homes, renting out some but selling two this year for $86,000 profit, according to Republicans seeking to dent her U.S. Senate candidacy. Republicans charge the transactions show Dr. Larry Lehrner to be opportunistic in the search of profits in the midst of Nevada’s foreclosure crisis, at a time when Berkley has been highly critical of banks forcing constituents out of their homes.
A 33-year-old man died Wednesday after driving a pickup onto a sidewalk and striking a business on Decatur near Charleston boulevards, Las Vegas police said.
The state Supreme Court has temporarily suspended two Southern Nevada lawyers who have had run-ins with the law. In separate orders filed Nov. 17, the court suspended Las Vegas attorney Susana Ragos Chung and Henderson attorney Robert Weatherford.
Clark County commissioners Tuesday will again considering tweaking their ethics policy. Proposed changes include holding spouses of commissioners and the people they live with to the same standards as elected officials when they lobby the board: They can’t act as paid consultants or lobbyists for people or companies that deal with state and local government.
Mike Moser scored 34 points, and Chace Stanback had 19 to lift 18th-ranked UNLV to a 94-88 double-overtime victory over UC Santa Barbara in a game featuring a wild finish in the Thunderdome.
A married couple charged with slaying a man whose body was found cut up in a box this month in downtown Las Vegas were ordered held without bail Wednesday.
A Las Vegas area man tied to the sports betting operation ACME Group Trading has been indicted on charges of violating federal currency transaction laws. Robert Walker, 43, was charged with four counts of causing a financial institution, the Golden Nugget Race & Sports Book, to fail to file an accurate currency transaction report.
One day doesn’t make a month. But a 490-point surge by the Dow Jones industrial average, the largest single day gain since March 2009, gave the stock prices of several publicly traded casino operators and slot machine manufacturers a lift on the last day of November. The month as a whole was a mixed bag, however.
