Landlord Gerald Catania knew the man killed Monday in a shootout on the Strip as a soft-spoken, polite tenant. “I didn’t know him as a bad person, I just seen him as my renter,” Catania said. Christopher Boudinot was fatally shot by a Regional Transportation Commission of Southern Nevada security officer after he was asked to get off a public bus because of a disturbance, according to Las Vegas police.
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One of two women accused of sexually abusing at least eight children and young teens — with some on video — has been a substitute teacher in the Clark Country School District.
Defense lawyers grilled an FBI agent Monday about whether he misled a federal judge into approving search warrants in a July 9 raid at Caesars Palace on a multimillion-dollar international betting ring.
The state blue ribbon committee created to spearhead improvements to Clark County child welfare and the court system has hired two additional experts to guide its work before the 2015 Legislature begins.
A 11-year-old girl was hospitalized Monday evening after being struck by a car in the west valley, according to Las Vegas police.
A 73-year-old man struck by a car in September in the southeast valley died about a week later, Las Vegas police announced Monday.
A former “Ice Road Truckers” reality-television star pleaded guilty Monday to kidnapping and extorting a Las Vegas prostitute, just as he was scheduled to face a jury on the charges.
Defense lawyers argued in federal court Monday to move the homeowners association corruption trial out of Las Vegas because of extensive “prejudicial” news coverage by the Las Vegas Review-Journal.
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The statistics are staggering: Nevada ranks last in education funding, and the state’s graduation rate – 63 percent – ranked 48th, nationally. To combat numbers such as these, a grass-roots parent advocacy group, HOPE (Honoring Our Public Education), has sprung up in Southern Nevada in the past couple years.
The Clark County coroner’s office identified the man who was found dead in a Henderson drainage ditch Sunday afternoon.
The idea got a frosty reception in rural Nevada, but U.S. Sen. Harry Reid of Nevada says he intends to keep pushing for the withdrawal of 805,100 acres of federal land in Lincoln and Nye counties.
Henderson police are investigating a body found Sunday in a drainage ditch near Boulder Highway and Galleria Drive, a city spokesman said.