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Teen run over after pair attempts to steal his iPad dies
Police are seeking more information on this man, who has been identified as a person of interest in a drive-by attempted robbery that left a teen ...
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Apopka man with loaded gun arrested at OIA while trying to board Vegas flight
For the third time in two weeks, a passenger carrying a loaded handgun has been arrested while trying to board a flight at Orlando International Airport. The latest case happened about 3 p.m. Thursday when ...
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Police official About $1 million worth of jewels stolen from hotel near Cannes Film Festival
PARIS - Suspected thieves ripped out a small safe from the wall of a hotel room near the Cannes Film Festival and made off with about $1 million worth of jewelry inside, a French police official said Friday. Cmdr. Bernard Mascarelli, a judicial police spokesman in the nearby city of Nice, said the robbery at the Novotel hotel overnight took place in the room of a representative of Swiss-based ...
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Attorney may have say on O.J.
Bruce Fromong is best known as one of the victims in the odd, intriguing O.J. Simpson memorabilia heist. But earlier this week he turned up outside the Regional Justice Center as Simpson and his attorneys worked to score a new trial inside District Judge Linda Bell's courtroom. After dropping off witness Mike Gilbert, who testified in the hearing, Fromong told KSNV-TV, Channel 3, reporter ...
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OJ Simpson’s Former Lawyer To Testify In Bid For New Vegas Trial
LAS VEGAS (AP) -- O.J. Simpson’s former lawyer has some explaining to do. Miami attorney Yale Galanter is scheduled to testify Friday in Simpson’s bid for a new trial. Galanter, according to Simpson, advised the former football star that it was his legal right to retrieve personal items from two memorabilia dealers; told Simpson not to testify in the Las Vegas trial that eventually ...
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Worlds Best Celebrity Chefs Make Las Vegas Food Festival A Huge Winner - Again
With more Michelin stars than anyone in history, Joel Robuchon, aka "Chef of the Century," was a big addition to the already star-studded lineup for the Vegas Uncork'd by Bon Appetit food festival. ...
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Obama Wynn catch flak in Being Oscar
President Barack Obama and Steve Wynn take hits in former Mayor Oscar Goodman's new memoir, "Being Oscar." Goodman's famous feud with Obama in 2009 was ignited when the new president "started using Las Vegas as a whipping boy for the country's economic troubles," the former mayor wrote. Goodman fired off a letter to Obama saying Las Vegas was "entitled to ...
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Century III apparently sold to Las Vegas company
Moonbeam Capital Investments LLC of Las Vegas is posting on its company website that it owns the mall. The more than 30-year-old facility has been under the management of Jones Lang LaSalle Retail since ...
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NYC artists secret photos raise privacy issues
Even though the photos don't reveal faces, not all residents are happy knowing they've become subjects for an artist while in the privacy of their own ...
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Shadow Ridge volunteer coach arrested in student sex case
A Shadow Ridge High School volunteer basketball coach faces charges of committing a sexual act with a student. Angela Hensey, 24, was arrested on Thursday on two counts of committing a sexual act with a pupil and one count of luring a child, Clark County Detention Center records indicate. Amanda Fulkerson, spokeswoman for the Clark County School District, confirmed that Hensey was a volunteer ...
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Pedestrian struck Charleston closed from Rainbow to Torrey Pines
A pedestrian is in critical condition after being struck by a vehicle near Charleston Boulevard and Torrey Pines Drive. The accident happened at 4:13 p.m. at the intersection of Charleston Boulevard and Scholl Drive. Police have shut down Charleston Boulevard in both directions from Rainbow Boulevard to Torrey Pines while officers investigate the incident. It was unknown whether the pedestrian ...
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Las Vegas-Clark County Library District extends hours
Most local libraries will be staying open an hour later, the governing board decided Thursday night. Hours at the Las Vegas-Clark County Library District's 14 urban branches were cut three years ago amid plunging tax revenues. Nearly 100 jobs were eliminated then, too. But district Executive Director Jeanne Goodrich told the board Thursday that the district's financial position has ...
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Strip Scribbles Las Vegas chefs set for ‘Top Chef Masters’ and Wet ’n’ Wild contest
Hot wings winners Michael Leahy and Ariana Reed at Diablo's Cantina in Monte Carlo. END .inline-content --> Two Las Vegas chefs and possibly a third will be seen in the next edition ...
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Suspended attorney pleads guilty in mortgage fraud case
A suspended Las Vegas lawyer has pleaded guilty in a federal mortgage fraud case and agreed to pay nearly $3.3 million in restitution. Authorities said the case involved a scheme to obtain mortgage loans from financial institutions using straw buyers and false loan applications. Attorney Stanley Walton and loan officer Pamela Black were indicted in February 2011 on one count of conspiracy to ...
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The truth is out there...on that light pole near your bus stop
It's funny, the things you see when you start looking. Really looking. The way only someone with a keen eye and bunker in the backyard can look. You see that they're out there, the government agents, watching the masses, "protecting" drivers with their "information," so eager to manage "traffic flow" and "help" guide citizens around ...
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Obesity rate drops for Nevadas youngest students
Nevada kindergarteners have a weighty problem, according to a statewide survey released Thursday of more than 8,000 families with children starting school. Almost a third of the state's youngest students are overweight or obese, found the Nevada Institute for Children's Research and Policy, based at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Local researchers and the U.S. Centers for Disease ...
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Nye County official blasts Sen. Reids hypocrisy on nuclear waste disposal
Sen. Harry Reid's stance that it's alright to bury a ton of uranium-tainted waste from Oak Ridge National Laboratory at the Nevada National Security Site is hypocritical, says a Nye County commissioner. "What we're concerned with is the sheer hypocrisy of Senator Reid, who said Yucca Mountain isn't safe but is OK with putting this fissile material 40 feet underground. ...
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More Cops tax mining tax bills gain key panel approvals
CARSON CITY -- The Legislature's two tax committees did what was expected Thursday -- vote for the so-called "More Cops" tax increase bill to hire more police in Clark County and advance a resolution to let voters decide next year whether to approve a constitutional amendment that could lead to higher taxes on mining. Both Assembly Bill 496, the proposal to impose a 0.15 ...
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North Las Vegas man arrested in wifes shooting death
Thursday, May 16, 2013 | 6 p.m. North Las Vegas Police arrested a man on Tuesday suspected of shooting and killing his wife following an investigation into her death that was initially reported as a suicide. Police allege that Jarom Boyes, an active-duty military member at Nellis Air Force Base, shot his 24-year-old wife in the stomach on April 6 during a physical fight that evening. The ...
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Terror investigation results in arrest of Uzbekistan national in Idaho
Federal authorities search an apartment in Boise, Idaho on Thursday afternoon. U.S. authorities said they have arrested a man from Uzbekistan accused of conspiring with a designated terrorist organization in his home country and helping scheme to use a weapon of mass destruction. Fazliddin Kurbanov, 30, was arrested at an apartment complex in south Boise on Thursday morning after a grand jury ...
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Nevada gay marriage resolution heads to Assembly floor
CARSON CITY -- A constitutional amendment that would let voters decide whether to legalize gay marriage passed another hurdle Thursday when an Assembly panel voted in favor of Senate Joint Resolution 13. The proposal will now go to the full Assembly for a vote, the final step in the 2013 session to move forward with a change to Nevada's current prohibition on same-gender marriage. It still ...
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Traffic lights damaged at Charleston and Decatur boulevards alternate routes advised
A busy Las Vegas intersection will be a four-way stop until 10 p.m. Thursday night. The traffic lights at the intersection of Charleston and Decatur boulevards were damaged when a vehicle crashed into the traffic signal controller cabinet. While repairs are being made, city officials are advising drivers to use alternate routes, such as U.S. Highway 95 or Sahara Avenue for east and west travel ...
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Contractor chosen to run juvenile detention center in Las Vegas
Summit View Facility, Las Vegas, Nevada. Formerly a maximum security juvenile facility. It was built in 1996 and closed in 2010, at which point it held 48 juveniles. Most of them went to ELKO, some to group homes, placements, back to parents, etc. None were transferred to adult corrections or out of ...
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Joe Downtown TV series to showcase Las Vegas arts scene
Symphony Park, including the Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health and the Smith Center for the Performing Arts, in downtown Las Vegas on Sunday, March 4, ...
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Las Vegas water charge boost OKd not expected to affect customers
After a delay prompted by questions and confusion, Southern Nevada Water Authority board members signed off Thursday on a water charge increase that is not expected to raise rates on customers. The board was supposed to vote last month on a proposal to add $10 to what the authority charges its member utilities for each acre-foot of water they receive. But the item seemed to catch board members ...
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Veer Towers showcase Nevada spirit
The Veer Towers represent Nevada’s contribution to the world of modern design and architecture and a trend that has emerged out of places like Dubai to push the boundaries of construction.
Nevada’s skyline or the skyline of Las Vegas at least, has more in common with the skylines of Dubai or Macau than the rest of the United States. The gleaming modern casinos and skyscrapers, the glittering lights of The Strip, the flashing neon signs of various hotel-casino resorts, these are the quintessential images of the city and they’re the perceptions that market the state throughout the US and indeed the world. The newly developed Veer Towers are no different, although their design certainly is. Read more
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