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- NTSB investigators return to scene of Lake Mead tour helicopter crash
- Friday, Dec. 9, 2011
- A federal crash investigator said Friday in Henderson that a Las Vegas tour helicopter that crashed, killing all five people aboard, made a sudden climb and sharp turns moments before plunging into a canyon near Lake Mead.
- Las Vegas DA won't seek jail for 'Pacman' Jones
- Tuesday, Nov. 15, 2011
- NFL football player Adam "Pacman" Jones won't face jail time in Nevada based on his conduct in a Cincinnati bar scuffle last summer, the district attorney in Las Vegas said Tuesday.
- 'Girls Gone Wild' chief suing Wynn over Las Vegas debt
- Wednesday, Nov. 2, 2011
- The founder of the "Girls Gone Wild" video empire has upped the ante in a legal dispute over a $2 million casino debt with Las Vegas Strip casino mogul Steve Wynn and the Wynn Las Vegas resort.
- IndyCar drivers out of Las Vegas hospital after crash
- Monday, Oct. 17, 2011
- Two IndyCar drivers have been released from a Las Vegas hospital after overnight treatment for injuries they received in a fiery crash that killed two-time Indianapolis 500 winner Dan Wheldon.
- Lawsuit challenges Nevada 'personhood' initiative
- Friday, Oct. 14, 2011
- A court challenge is being mounted to block an anti-abortion Nevada ballot initiative that would change the state constitution to define life as beginning at conception, and demand civil rights for unborn children.
- Henderson doctor pleads not guilty in stem cell case
- Thursday, Oct. 13, 2011
- A prominent Henderson pediatrician pleaded not guilty Thursday to federal charges that he and a man who falsely claimed he was a doctor conspired to implant chronically ill patients with stem cells harvested from human placentas.
- Not guilty plea for Desai in Las Vegas hepatitis case
- Thursday, Oct. 13, 2011
- A lawyer for a former physician-owner of Las Vegas-area endoscopy clinics entered a not guilty plea to federal conspiracy and fraud charges stemming from a 2008 hepatitis outbreak that affected thousands of patients.
- Jury awards couple $104 million in Las Vegas hepatitis case
- Wednesday, Oct. 12, 2011
- A jury has found drug companies liable for $104 million in damages in a third product liability lawsuit stemming from a hepatitis C outbreak four years ago at Las Vegas outpatient colonoscopy clinics.
- Former Las Vegas prosecutor takes plea deal in cocaine case
- Wednesday, Oct. 12, 2011
- A former Las Vegas prosecutor who handled the Paris Hilton and Bruno Mars celebrity cocaine cases has taken a plea deal that'll let him clear his own record in a felony cocaine case if he stays out of trouble for three years.
- Las Vegas jury finds Navy SEAL guilty in weapons case
- Friday, Oct. 7, 2011
- A federal jury in Las Vegas found an active-duty Navy SEAL guilty on 13 of 15 charges alleging he smuggled machine guns from Iraq and Afghanistan and headed a conspiracy to sell weapons and explosives in the U.S.
- Navy SEAL weapons case trial nears end
- Wednesday, Oct. 5, 2011
- A federal prosecutor asked a Las Vegas jury to convict an active-duty Navy SEAL accused of smuggling machine guns and explosives from Iraq and Afghanistan and conspiring to sell them in the United States.
- Man appealing sentence in Mesquite stabbing case
- Monday, Oct. 3, 2011
- A Nevada Supreme Court decision on a death row inmate's appeal to live could hinge on the question of whether a juror tainted deliberations by telling other jurors she heard of death row convicts going free and committing other crimes.
- Judge OKs Las Vegas medical pot case, says laws aren't too vague
- Tuesday, Sept. 27, 2011
- A state court judge is rejecting a challenge of Nevada's medical marijuana laws by owners of a storefront pot dispensary in Las Vegas.
- 'Girls Gone Wild' founder wins gambling debt case
- Wednesday, Sept. 14, 2011
- A Nevada judge has thrown out a criminal indictment alleging that "Girls Gone Wild" founder Joe Francis didn't pay a $2.5 million gambling debt to a Las Vegas Strip casino.
- Vegas firefighters mark day with stair climb
- Sunday, Sept. 11, 2011
- Las Vegas firefighter Gregg Burns found new life for an American flag he received in a Sunday morning parade marking the 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
- Outbursts mark Congress jobs hearing in Las Vegas
- Tuesday, Aug. 30, 2011
- Audience outbursts briefly interrupted testimony Tuesday before a trio of Congress members in Las Vegas for a hearing about jobs and improving federal job training in a state saddled with the nation's highest unemployment rate.
- Wife calls fatal punch at O'Sheas self-defense
- Friday, July 8, 2011
- The wife of a Florida high school football coach being held on a murder charge said Friday her husband was defending himself when he threw a single punch that authorities say killed a Utah man in a Strip casino.
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