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Despite Questions about Officer-Involved shootings, LV Police Get Positive Rating
28 August 2010
Despite multiple police-involved shootings in recent months, the investigation of a Metropolitan Police detective accused of falsifying evidence, a former police officer’s indictment over falsifying a court document, a Henderson police department officer admitting to soliciting prostitution, and a deputy in the Las Vegas constable’s office being arrested in connection with a seduction charge involving [...]
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Las Vegas Police Book Paris Hilton
28 August 2010
Las Vegas Police busted bad girl Paris Hilton Friday night when an eagle eyed, or rather, a keen sniffing police officer whiffed the sweet odor of marijuana fumes exiting a black Cadillac Escalade in front of the Wynn Hotel. The svelte, blonde socialite and the driver of the vehicle were booked into the Clark County jail but [...]
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Las Vegas Police Arrest Girl Gang Members After Crime Spree
26 August 2010
Las Vegas Metropolitan Police have busted 10 members of an all-female gang that had been terrorizing merchants in the northeast area of Las Vegas and North Las Vegas in May. The Lady Macc gang had become violent during a four-day spree as they punched and slashed people while robbing a convenience store and a clothing [...]
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Las Vegas Police Investigate Officer Involved in Drug Raid
26 August 2010
It reads like a script from Law & Order. The Las Vegas Metropolitan Police detective recently cleared in a police-involved killing of an unarmed suspect now faces investigation into lying about drugs seized in a raid that apparently didn’t happen. Detective Bryan Yant has come under internal affairs investigation in connection with a drug buy [...]
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Anger Flares over Coroner Inquest Verdict
24 August 2010
A letter to the editor in the Las Vegas Review-Journal challenges the concept of a coroner’s inquest in regard to police-involved shootings. The letter is only the latest to reflect the public anger in this town that has seen a rash of police-involved shooting resulting in the deaths of unarmed suspects. On Saturday, a [...]
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Move to Put Las Vegas Arena Proposal Before Nevada Lawmakers
21 August 2010
Despite the current economic recession that has left Nevada unemployment at record levels and a thumbs down from the Clark County Commissioners, one group, the nonprofit Las Vegas Arena Foundation, has firmly set its aim on the future with its proposal to build a NBA-style sports arena in the Las Vegas Strip vicinity. The Foundation [...]
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California Cops Cop Cannabis Worth $24M
19 August 2010
The plantation’s exceptionally planned system hidden off a main hiking trail included an irrigation system fed by a stream contained by a nicely built dam, sophisticated tubing developed into a clever irrigation grid, and a battery- run pump and timer to put the final touches on a great distribution system. The crop: about 2,700 cannabis [...]
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Legal doubts surface as court extends California gay marriage ban
17 August 2010
Federal appeals court extends the block on gay marriage in California but opens question of who can appeal Prop 8 ruling
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Race Fans Contribute to Deaths in Off-Road Race
16 August 2010
Negligence on the part of fans and failure to enforce race-permit rules may have contributed to the death of eight off-road race fans at a southern California event when a driver lost control of his truck, and slammed into a large crowd at the track’s edge. Thousands of fans gathered along a 50-mile stretch of a Mojave [...]
Opposition to Gay Marriage Erodes in Nevada
14 August 2010
Either demographics have changed considerably in Nevada or people are reconsidering their previous stance against gay marriage. In a recent poll conducted by Mason-Dixon Polling & Research, Inc. of Washington, D.C., the number of Nevadans opposing gay marriage has slipped from 60 percent, who opposed such marriages in 2002, to 46 percent. This was the [...]
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Sandoval’s Lead Soars over Reid in Bid for Nevada Governor
14 August 2010
If you believe the polls, and many in Nevada do, then the next governor will be Republican Brian Sandoval. Sandoval leads Democrat hopeful Roy Reid by a whopping 16 percentage points in the latest newspaper poll. The poll’s findings, conducted by Mason-Dixon Polling & Research, Inc. of Washington, D.C. from August 9 through August 11, [...]
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California gay marriage ban to remain until 18 August, judge rules
13 August 2010
Gay and lesbian couples in California put marriage plans on hold as Proposition 8 judge keeps ban in place until 18 August
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San Francisco judge delays final gay marriage decision
13 August 2010
• California opponents given more time to appeal• Ruling allows higher courts to get involved
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Clark County School District Slashes Hiring
07 August 2010
For years, Clark County School District in southern Nevada braced itself for the opening of the school year with the hiring of thousands of teachers from throughout the country and even some from outside the country. This year, it intends to hire less than 275. Economic times are a changing. Budget crunching has led to some [...]
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California Gay Marriage Ruling Sets Stage for Major Change in America
05 August 2010
A federal judge has overturned a California law banning marriage between homosexuals, thus setting the stage for a possible appeal to the United States Supreme Court. In his ruling, the federal judge could find no credence in the arguments made to uphold the ban on same-sex marriages. His ruling resulted in instant jubilation among gays [...]
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Residents’ Anger Has So. Calif. Mayor Working Free for Rest of the Year
27 July 2010
Residents of Bell, California, a small town southeast of Los Angeles, have won some of their demands to have the town’s city council members, mayor, and vice-mayor step down and return their unusually high salaries to the city’s coffers. Up to 300 residents had marched on the homes of the mayor and at least one [...]
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Angry So. California Town Residents March on Mayor’s Home
25 July 2010
Residents of Bell, California, got their bell rung earlier this month when they woke to find a Los Angeles Times investigative article informing them that their city of 40,000 folks paid their City Manager more than $787,000 a year. Their eyes really popped open when they read the assistant city manager received $457,000 a year, [...]
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Historic Moulin Rouge Property Razed
25 July 2010
The historic Moulin Rouge hotel and casino in Las Vegas, Nevada, has been dealt its final hand as workers began demolishing the structure’s tower this week. The casino, which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places, was the first racially integrated casino in Las Vegas. It began playing headliners such as Frank Sinatra, Sammy [...]
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Former Nevada Governor Dies
25 July 2010
Nevada is mourning the death of one of its former governors this week. Kenny Guinn served two terms as governor of the state from 1999 to 2007. Guinn had also served as the superintendent of the Clark County School District. Guinn might be best known as the governor who established the Guinn Millennium Scholarship, which [...]
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