The Nevada Supreme Court ruling Thursday to strike down the revised coroner’s inquest was being viewed as a victory by both proponents and opponents of the fact-finding process.
Crime
Gordon Driver of Henderson is facing federal charges in what the U.S. attorney in Los Angeles said was a $15 million Ponzi scheme. Driver, 54, was arrested in Las Vegas this month on charges including mail and wire fraud.
A federal jury took less than an hour Wednesday to convict a former Henderson firefighter on five counts of trying to evade more than $130,000 in taxes between 2004 and 2008.
Four men have been indicted by a grand jury in the kidnapping of 17-year-old Melissa Duran from her Henderson home in August for a $100,000 ransom. The men are held at the Clark County Detention Center on $2 million bail.
One member of the MIT Blackjack Team portrayed in the movie “21” was apparently too good at her trade.
The losses widened last year at Silver State Industries, the state’s prison industry system, although officials hope that changes in ranching reimbursements will start to generate profits.
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A 63-year-old unhoused Las Vegas man was in critical condition after an early Sunday hit-and-run crash, police said.
The victim was found dead in a vacant lot on April 28.
An outsider was arrested after she allegedly vandalized a UNLV sign with the words “Free Palestine” Thursday night, according to university officials.
Shane Valentine, 31, had been a person of interest in the still-unsolved 2016 shooting deaths of Sydney Land, 21, and Nehemiah “Neo” Kauffman, 20.
