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Man locked out of work by prison of his past
Wednesday, Nov. 18, 2009
The Nevada Board of Pardons has been told that Conan Pope must prove himself before his voluntary manslaughter charge is pardoned. But Pope can’t prove himself, really, if he can’t get a job. And he can’t get a good job unless he gets pardoned — unless he no longer has to tell potential employers about how, at age 15, he killed his dad.
Inventive Henderson robbery scheme falls flat
Monday, Nov. 16, 2009
Five men are being charged with a bank robbery scheme that was, if not successful, at least inventive. Rather than bust into a Wells Fargo in Henderson with guns drawn, authorities allege a team of men walked into the bank armed with a fake federal search warrant — a document they claimed gave them the authority to seize all the money in the bank’s vault.
On busy road, memorial sprouts for friendly horse
Checkers’ admirers — and her owner — mourn her passing
Monday, Nov. 16, 2009
The Stop N Go sold Icees — slushed cherry, frosted cola. After school, when the urge came, Stacy McNamara rode Checkers, her brown-dapple appaloosa, two miles from her house to the minimart at Eastern and Russell.
Flagged by Interpol, brought down by the EPA
Environmental agency gets tough, lists fugitives from its justice, FBI-style
Sunday, Nov. 15, 2009
Joseph O’Connor was an Irish man with a Nevada business wanted by Interpol for selling ships to drug traffickers out of Spain. So of all the things a guy like O’Connor probably figures he could go down for, polluting must have been a surprise. And yet, in late October, O’Connor found himself in federal court, pleading guilty to environmental crimes.
Elderly, a bit senile, visiting Vegas — man was perfect fraud victim
Tuesday, Nov. 10, 2009
Wilson Smith met a nice woman in Las Vegas. They spent two days together, it seems, before Smith, in town for only a short visit, headed to a high school reunion and then back home to California — and his new friend started calling.

As economy falters, employee theft on the rise
Friday, Nov. 6, 2009
Robert Frimet is a self-proclaimed fraud expert, a businessman who audits other companies’ books, gives lectures on recognizing employee theft, and sits as a civilian member on the Nevada Fight Fraud Task Force.
Their valuables gone, like their ladies of the night
More than $2 million is likely be stolen in ’09 in ‘trick rolls’ in which a prostitute robs a client
Wednesday, Nov. 4, 2009
People in the company of Clark County prostitutes collectively reported having $1.4 million in cash and goods stolen from them during the first nine months of this year — dupes of a larceny genre better known to police as the “trick roll.” By year’s end, it’s estimated the total reported losses will exceed $2 million — almost double last year’s total, and probably a fraction of the real amount. How many people file police reports, after all, when their prostitutes disappoint?
Should the jury know that he was acquitted of murder?
Accused of killing his wife, one man's trial may hinge on the death of a previous spouse
Sunday, Nov. 1, 2009
Thomas Randolph was nonchalant for a handcuffed man charged with murder, again. "Nice to see you!” he said, shuffling into Utah Judge Rodney Page’s courtroom. Randolph was being extradited to Las Vegas, where police blame him for two homicides — of his wife, and the guy he persuaded to kill her. Page presided over Randolph’s past murder trial, in 1989, when he was accused of killing a previous wife.
Web site aims to settle legal disputes away from public eye
Friday, Oct. 30, 2009
It’s a new courtroom, like any other: There’s a jury box and deliberation room, a bailiff and a clerk, a place for witnesses to testify and attorneys to argue.
Regulation in need of a checkup
Public missteps, sluggish response to complaints, crises continue to bring criticism on Nevada’s medical board
Sunday, Oct. 25, 2009
The Nevada State Board of Medical Examiners is required by law to protect patients. But critics — doctors and lawmakers among them — say the board is hampered by conflicts of interest, lacks the will to discipline physicians and is accountable to no one.

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Recent Blog Posts (view all entries)

Just another Sunday at the county jail
Monday, Aug. 11, 2008
Mormon "stud" calendar causes problems
Friday, July 11, 2008
Metro Explorers win big
Monday, July 7, 2008
Jailed rock singer hauled into court
Monday, June 30, 2008
More information on arrest of county worker
Friday, June 27, 2008
TV report: County worker arrested
Thursday, June 26, 2008
Marshals arrest two for selling horses they didn't own
Thursday, June 26, 2008
Henderson Police Chief Perkins announces retirement
Wednesday, June 25, 2008

Henderson Police Chief Richard Perkins has announced his retirement from the department, effective Sept. 5.

Murder charges filed against parents of 4-year-old boy who died after 17 hours in car
Wednesday, June 25, 2008
Marshals arrest suspect in Ohio summer school robbery in Las Vegas Valley
Tuesday, June 24, 2008

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