Detroit mobster Jack Tocco’s death of natural causes this past week generated barely a ripple of notice in Southern Nevada. But there was a time in the early 1980s when the mere mention of his name was enough to set state and federal law enforcement on the hunt for gangsters in the neon.
A Florida jury has slammed the nation’s No. 2 cigarette maker, R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co., with $23.6 billion in punitive damages in a lawsuit filed by the widow of a longtime smoker who died of lung cancer in 1996.
So far, 2014 has been a particularly violent year for officers. The Metropolitan Police Department has seen a spike in officer involved shootings across the valley. But a national expert says statistics are cyclical and don’t accurately measure whether officers are facing more or less danger.
Sin City? How about Beer City? The Las Vegas area is poised to tip beer glasses filled with an increased variety of new craft beers, with three microbrew businesses alone opening in the Eastgate commerce center’s “Booze District” in Henderson this year, while a fourth is debuting on Main Street in the Las Vegas arts district.
Actor James Garner, whose whimsical style in the 1950s TV Western “Maverick” led to a stellar career in TV and films such as “The Rockford Files” and his Oscar-nominated “Murphy’s Romance,” has died, police said. He was 86.
On lonely highways from Pahrump to the state capital, you can still find signs of a rare and controversial business as old as the mining camps that helped put Nevada on the map. Just follow the trademark spinning red lights.
