New Clark County School District teachers may get pushed out midyear before guiding their students on to the next grade. The cash-strapped district, at an impasse with its teachers union over cost-saving measures, is bracing for about 1,000 possible layoffs of licensed staff. The ax will fall if an arbitrator sides with the Clark County Education Association, which has refused to grant $78 million in contract concessions.
The Nevada Supreme Court has cleared the Silver Nugget of any liability for the shooting death five years ago of patron Allen Tyrone Smith Jr.
Ed Jensen confronted death face to face early in his career as a Las Vegas police officer. It was 1974, and he had just shot and killed a man who tried to rob a downtown gas station. Stunned, he watched the 23-year-old gurgle his last breath. Then he confronted Southern Nevada’s law enforcement culture face to face.
When a citizen in Clark County kills someone, prosecutors are there from the start of the investigation, often looking over the shoulder of detectives even before the body is moved. But when a police officer kills someone, prosecutors are nowhere to be found.
A June election that put North Las Vegas Ward 4 Councilman Wade Wagner into office by a margin of one vote will stand. District Judge Susan Scann ruled Wednesday that lawyers for former Councilman Richard Cherchio couldn’t convincingly demonstrate an illegal vote they said went to Wagner should be tossed and a new election called.
A conservative think tank filed a lawsuit Wednesday over what it calls a “long-standing violation of the state constitution,” public employees serving in the Legislature. But the Nevada Policy Research Institute’s lawsuit only challenges the right of state Sen. Mo Denis, D-Las Vegas, to serve in the Legislature when his primary employer is the state Public Utilities Commission.
