Nevadans for Background Checks on Monday launched a statewide campaign to gather signatures for a proposed 2016 ballot initiative to expand required background checks to all gun sales in Nevada, with certain exceptions.
Backers included religious and law enforcement leaders as well as state Sen. Justin Jones, D-Las Vegas, who sponsored similar expanded gun background check legislation in the 2013 session.
On Monday morning initial arraignment was held for Natasha Galenn Jackson, the woman facing eight felony charges — including murder, attempted murder, burglary, kidnapping and robbery for two home invasions that turned deadly.
Isabel Duff,director of the Southern Nevada VA Healthcare System, discusses doctor shortages and long patient wait times at the new North Las Vegas VA medical facility.
In 2009, then 17-year-old Johnathan Perez shot Robert Garrison five times during a confrontation on a Las Vegas street. Perez was given probation in 2011 after time served in the Clark County jail. A couple of years alter after a dope deal went bad, a witness said they saw Perez shoot am na to death.
