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(AP) The junked signs that attracted throngs to old Las Vegas have for years gathered dust in a neon boneyard just a few miles from the sleek mega-casinos on the Strip. This Memorial Day weekend, the hulking metal come-ons are once ...
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(AP) The Nevada Senate has approved extending voter registration deadlines on a party-line vote.Senators late Thursday passed AB440 on a vote of 11-10. It now goes back to the Assembly for a technical adjustment before heading to the governor and an ...
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(AP) Law enforcement officers from federal, state, county and local agencies from northwestern Arizona and southeastern Nevada are out in force on the Colorado River for the Memorial Day weekend.The Mohave Daily News ( http://bit.ly/124MtM8) reports that the officers are looking ...
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(AP) A Las Vegas man is accused in Illinois of a timeshare scam that federal prosecutors say bilked $10 million from more than 3,000 victims across the United States, Canada and other countries.A grand jury in East St. Louis has indicted ...
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(AP) The Nevada Assembly has approved allowing courts to order mentally ill defendants who have regular run-ins with the law to complete tailored outpatient treatment plans.Assembly members approved AB287 on Friday, 34-7. It now heads to the Senate.Republican Assemblyman Lynn Stewart ...
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(AP) The Albuquerque police officer facing criminal charges for a February crash that killed a 21-year-old woman has been fired, Police Chief Ray Schultz said Friday.Schultz said Sgt. Adam Casaus was terminated after an internal probe found he violated several sections ...
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(AP) A bill overhauling Nevada's sex education curriculum has died in the state Senate.AB230 was taken off a roster of bills to be voted upon Friday. The bill faced a midnight deadline to survive.The bill would have set up a state ...
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(AP) Domestic violence victims in Nevada will have a new tool to help them escape abusive relationships.The Nevada Senate unanimously approved AB284, sponsored by Democratic Assemblywoman Lucy Flores of Las Vegas. It now goes to the governor.It establishes notice requirements and ...
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(AP) Las Vegas police are going public with attempts to apprehend a masked gunman believed to be responsible for 10 store robberies since March.Robbery Sgt. Steve Candelas is meeting with the media Friday afternoon to talk about the man police are ...
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(AP) Some Nevada lawmakers say doctors should tell women with dense breast tissue that mammogram results are inconclusive, but some doctors say there's no need.Democratic Assemblyman James Ohrenschall of Las Vegas is behind AB147. It requires doctors to include a statement ...
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(AP) The Nevada Highway Patrol has seized more than 150 pounds of marijuana from the driver of a moving truck stopped on Interstate 80 near Winnemucca.Troopers say they smelled alcohol when they pulled over 33-year-old Earl Pointer of California while driving ...
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(AP) An Elko County sheriff's deputy who pulled a car over for speeding on U.S. Interstate 80 ended up arresting the driver with 28 pounds of marijuana.Undersheriff Clair Morris says the deputy smelled marijuana when he pulled the 31-year-old Missouri man ...
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(AP) A 44-year-old Fernley man has been sentenced to more than 22 years in federal prison for soliciting children for sex over the Internet.U.S. District Court Judge Howard McKibben sentenced Vincent Charles Fasone Wednesday after he pleaded guilty in January to ...
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(AP) Officials in Las Vegas say McCarran International Airport handled slightly fewer passengers in April than a year earlier.Data released Friday shows slightly more than 3.5 million people flew in and out of the airport last month. That's about 5,000 or ...
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(AP) In a story May 22 about the U.S. Interior Department awarding more than $20 million in grants for water conservation projects, The Associated Press, relying on information provided by the federal agency, reported erroneously that the North Yuba Water District ...
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