Abigail Goldman

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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.