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July 24, 2008

Abigail Goldman

Reporter/ General Assignment

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Eye-opener with a pitch
TV news program tries product placement as revenue source
Monday, July 21, 2008
Oooooooh, they’re calling out your name.
Would-be Vegas hitman’s story ends in Irish jail
Card dealer’s strategy: Double-cross clients
Sunday, July 20, 2008
We all nurse private ambitions. Essam Ahmed Eid, a 53-year-old Egyptian man living in Vegas and dealing poker at the Bellagio, dreamed of becoming a hit man.
Check this account: Invitation puts monkey in the middle at bank
Saturday, July 19, 2008
So, a guy and a spider monkey walked into a bank. The smaller of the two primates was wearing a diaper, with a hole cut out for its tail, which made the monkey’s 10-minute dash through Washington Mutual on Valle Verde Drive at Paseo Verde Parkway in Henderson on Thursday all the more amusing.
Polygamy refugee steps into storm over church
Henderson woman tells of abuse, becomes vocal critic of the sect
Sunday, July 13, 2008
Clyde Mackert and his wives must have put on their best faces for the flashbulb. This was Life magazine, after all, coming to photograph them canning corn, and singing hymns, and scrambling eggs for breakfast, and all they had to do was show the world polygamy isn’t bad.
No single vein fits all serial killers
Friday, July 11, 2008
The serial killer is so misunderstood.
Metro CSI truck packs gee-whiz stuff
Investigators’ tools range from hair spray to high tech, not to mention grisly
Tuesday, July 8, 2008
Up until seven months ago, if there was a homicide somewhere in Clark County, Metro’s crime scene investigators would pile into an RV — the kind your grandparents dream of driving across the country, but a little more beat up — and head to the scene like it was some kind of creepy family trip, the cabinets stocked with body fluid test kits instead of hamburger buns
Kill your lawn. Artist gives old adage a water-conscious-in-’08 meaning
Statement that contradicts suburban ideal is for him a point of pride
Thursday, July 3, 2008
Robert Curry gave up. He got tired of drowning his lawn with water, then paying gardeners to groom it, then balancing his checkbook only to find it was warped by the weight of the $225 he spent monthly just to keep the grass alive.
Turnabout puts DA in hot seat in possible hit man conflict
Wednesday, July 2, 2008

David Roger sat solemn in a suit and a tie, hands folded before him, head pitched forward, waiting to play ball. Here he is, the district attorney of Clark County, and he’s sitting on the stand, getting grilled instead of doing the grilling.
Haunted by his prison job
Former guard compelled to write about it, and it’s not pretty
Monday, June 30, 2008
The inmates run this place. Not the staff. That’s the reality of it.
Sparks fly after court Taser demo for children
Tuesday, June 24, 2008
Two months ago, a taser demonstration at District Court was supposed to be some kind of educational moment for the children of court employees. Since then, it has become a point of heated contention.

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