WEEK IN REVIEW: NFL cornerback faces charges in Minxx melee
The Clark County district attorney’s office filed two counts of felony coercion against NFL standout Adam “Pacman” Jones on Wednesday.
Las Vegas police and Clark County prosecutors have accused the Tennessee Titans cornerback and two companions of attacking and threatening employees inside the Minxx strip club shortly before someone opened fire outside the club and wounded three people during NBA All-Star Weekend.
Investigators have yet to identify the gunman. Three people, patron Natalie Jones and club employees Aaron Cudworth and Tom Urbanski, were shot. Urbanski, a Las Vegas real estate agent moonlighting at the club to put his wife through law school, was paralyzed from the waist down.
On Friday, Jones surrendered and posted $20,000 bail.
While Jones walked in and out of the Clark County Detention Center in about two hours early Friday morning, Urbanski remained in a wheelchair in a Colorado rehabilitation center not knowing if he would ever use his legs again.
“I think I’m angrier than Tommy,” said Urbanski’s wife, Kathy. “I watch what he has to go through and how he suffers. I have visions of the bullet passing through him and how he felt laying in a pool of blood.”
MONDAY
Jobless rate tops national average
Nevada’s unemployment rate hit 4.6 percent in May, surpassing the national average for the first time in five years, the state Department of Employment reported. The national average was 4.5 percent.
The statewide increase in unemployment has occurred as Nevada’s record job creation rate has slowed.
“We are definitely experiencing a narrowing of the gap between the state and the rest of the nation in job growth and unemployment,” said Terry Johnson, the department’s director.
TUESDAY
Commissioners OK parking lot
Clark County commissioners approved a proposal to build a parking lot in the median south of the iconic Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas sign on Las Vegas Boulevard South.
The project aims to address mounting safety concerns about tourists who dart across lanes to reach the sign or stop in the road to take pictures.
“It’s a popular site, and we have a lot of jaywalking,” said Denis Cederburg, public works director for the county.
WEDNESDAY
Wireless Internet work approved
The Las Vegas City Council approved agreements that allow two companies to install wireless Internet equipment on streetlights, traffic signals and school flasher poles.
The vote puts Las Vegas one step closer to offering communitywide access to high-speed wireless Internet, but experiments in other cities indicate years could pass before Southern Nevada gets a widespread network.
THURSDAY
Former Silverado student dies in Iraq
A 22-year-old soldier from Las Vegas who attended Silverado High School was killed in combat operations in Iraq last week.
Pfc. Joshua S. Modgling and another soldier were killed when a roadside bomb exploded Tuesday near their vehicle in Muhammad al Ali, according to a Department of Defense statement.
FRIDAY
E-mail linked to Gibbons challenged
One of the e-mails that showed Gov. Jim Gibbons was being paid off by a company for which he helped secure federal defense contracts was fabricated, lawyers for the company, eTreppid Technologies, asserted.
In a filing in the federal civil lawsuit that is the basis for an FBI investigation of Gibbons, a computer expert states that the damning line, “We need to take care of him like we discussed,” was never a part of the e-mail correspondence between eTreppid executives after Gibbons helped them get access to top Pentagon officials. The expert concludes Dennis Montgomery, the former eTreppid partner who is suing the company, altered the e-mail.
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