A Las Vegas man indicted in a scheme to steal $7 million in U.S. Treasury checks in Utah was arrested over the weekend in Lyon County, Nevada, a federal prosecutor said Monday.
Jeff Burbank
Before returning to the Review-Journal in 2022, Jeff spent seven years as a content development specialist at the Mob Museum. Before that, he worked as a reporter for the Bay City News Service, the Las Vegas Sun, UPI, Los Angeles Times and others, including the RJ from 1991-1995. He also has considerable experience teaching at UNLV, San Jose State and DeVry University. Jeff was a Fulbright Scholar in 2011.
Lennix Dockery was taken into custody early Saturday by the Kootenai County Sheriff’s Department in Rathdrum, Idaho. He is one of three suspects arrested in connection with an April 9 fatal shooting.
The Clark County School District is looking to make it easier to hire retired employees to fill “critical” vacant teaching, other jobs.
The American Red Cross of Southern Nevada on Sunday assisted 15 people displaced by an apartment building fire south of downtown Las Vegas.
Ten former elementary school students received four-year college scholarships as promised in 2015 by a non-profit group.
Nevada’s highest court unanimously ruled that a state ban on ghost guns is constitutional, overturning a lower court’s decision.
About 30 robberies/attacks on letter carriers have occurred in the valley over the past three years, a National Letter Carriers Union spokesman said.
People in the building during the shooting deaths of Dennis Prince, wife Ashley and suicide of the shooter, Joseph Houston II, begged 911 operators for police to arrive.
Las Vegas lawyers Joseph Houston II and Dennis Prince should never have been part of the child custody case that may have contributed to Monday’s tragic shooting, one of Houston’s acquaintances said.
The Clark County School Board approved a tentative $3.4 billion budget for the 2024-25 school year. The tentative budget now will be filed with the State of Nevada for review.
Attorney Joseph Houston had learned that the cancer that spread to his bones had returned before he fatally shot Dennis Prince and his wife before turning the gun on himself.
Prominent Las Vegas attorney Dennis Prince and his new wife were killed during a deposition at a law office in Summerlin. The gunman then took his own life.
A heavy fire burned multiple semi-trailers in a warehouse area Sunday night in south-central Las Vegas before it was doused by a crew from the Clark County Fire Department.
A mother, who oversaw her late son’s donation of six of his organs, and a recipient of a life-saving kidney were inspired to join forces at the Nevada Donor Network.
A Southwest Airlines plane headed for Las Vegas was halted Thursday night during takeoff in Lubbock, Texas, because of “a possible engine issue.”