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Las Vegas Councilman Angry At His County Colleagues

(Las Vegas, NV)  –  Las Vegas Councilman Bob Coffin is lashing out at county officials for delaying a vote to raise sales taxes and fund more police officers. The “Review-Journal” says Coffin claims...

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Truck Slams Bus Stop–3 Kids Critical

( Las Vegas, NV ) Three young children remained in critical condition after a traffic accident early Friday at Bonanza and Lamb sent a pickup truck into a bus shelter. Police say both drivers said they...

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Casinos Work Together To Fight Cheaters

UNCASVILLE, Conn. (AP) — Casinos in the Northeastern U.S. increasingly are tapping a shared intelligence network to stay ahead of cheaters. A bettor was arrested last week at Connecticut’s Mohegan Sun...

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Zoo Closed, Feds Removing Animals

(LAS VEGAS, KXNT, A.P.)–Federal officials tell KXNT they have been removing animals from the Las Vegas Zoo, a privately owned facility on Rancho. Zookeepers have walked off the job recently. The owner...

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Crime Statistic Better News For Nevada

LAS VEGAS (AP) — Nevada has dropped from the dreaded top spot in rankings of how often women are killed by men. A Violence Policy Center list released Wednesday shows Nevada has the 16th highest rate...

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First Court Appearance For Teen Accused Of Stabbing Mom, Brother To Death

LAS VEGAS (AP) — A Las Vegas-area teenager has made his first appearance before a judge on charges of killing his mother and younger brother a few days after celebrating his 16th birthday. Adrian...

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Las Vegans Caught With Dozens Of Fake IDs

LINTHICUM, Md. (AP) — The Transportation Security Administration says two Nevada men are facing charges in Maryland after dozens of fake identification cards were found in checked luggage at Baltimore...

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UNLV Student Death A Mystery

LAS VEGAS (AP) — Authorities are having trouble finding the family of a 58-year-old University of Nevada, Las Vegas student who was found dead in her dorm room last month. Clark County Coroner Mike...

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Domestic Violence Victims Honored

LAS VEGAS (AP) — Fifteen people who lost their lives to domestic violence in Las Vegas last year are being honored as part of Domestic Violence Awareness Month. The victims’ names will be added to an...

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Not Enough Cameras In Casino/Hotels?

LAS VEGAS (AP) — Las Vegas casinos are some of the most closely-watched spaces in the world, but most don’t have video cameras in guest room hallways, an absence that hotel workers, patrons and...

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Inmate Dies In State Prison

CARSON CITY, Nev. (AP) — Authorities say they don’t suspect foul play in the death of a 52-year-old inmate at a Carson City prison. Nevada Department of Corrections officials say Richard B. Ferst was...

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Saudi Airman’s Sexual Assault Trial Begins

LAS VEGAS (AP) — Jury selection is set to start in Nevada for the trial of a Saudi Arabian air force sergeant accused of raping a 13-year-old boy last New Year’s Eve at a Las Vegas Strip hotel....

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Prosecutors: Teen Sex Assault Suspect Plotting To Kill Victim

LAS VEGAS (AP) — A judge in Las Vegas has ordered jail isolation for a Southern California ex-convict accused of plotting from behind bars to kill a 13-year-old schoolgirl he’s accused of abducting...

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Dead Baby Found In Hotel Trash Bin

LAS VEGAS (AP) — Las Vegas police say a newborn baby has been found dead in a trash bin behind a Las Vegas casino. The baby was found on Monday afternoon near the Planet Hollywood casino on the Las...

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Metro Police Officer Shoots Unarmed Man

( Las Vegas, NV ) - A Las Vegas Metro Police officer-involved shooting on the valley’s eastside Monday night sends a man to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries. Investigators say the...

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Police Officer Arrested

(Las Vegas, NV) –  A Metro Police Officer has been arrested on fraud and theft charges. Metro Police aren’t saying much about 29-year-old Joshua Logan, other than that he was booked at the Clark County...

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Fatal Crash In Northwest Las Vegas

LAS VEGAS (AP) — Authorities say a 24-year-old man is dead after his Suburban smashed into a traffic light pole and burst into flames in Las Vegas. Police say they’re still investigating why the SUV...

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Hearing For Man Accused Of Shooting Friend

HENDERSON, Nev. (AP) — A judge has set bail at $200,000 for a 22-year-old Henderson man who said he thought his gun was unloaded when he shot a woman in the head. Colin Lowrey faces an open murder...

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Man Killed Breaking Into Ex’s Apartment

HENDERSON, Nev. (AP) — Henderson police say a 49-year-old man was shot dead while trying to break in to his estranged girlfriend’s apartment. Authorities say the incident happened a little before 2...

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Sentencing For Accused Strip Shooter Pushed Back

LAS VEGAS (AP) — Sentencing has been pushed back in a rape case involving a self-described pimp who changed lawyers in his upcoming capital murder case in the deaths of three people on the Las Vegas...

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Turkey Traffic Sting Has Metro Cop In Costume

LAS VEGAS (AP) — A giant turkey is roving crosswalks in Las Vegas to squawk on drivers who don’t yield to pedestrians. Officers dressed in Thanksgiving bird finery are walking across the road Tuesday...

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Sisolak: “More Cops” Becoming Issue Of Trust

( Las Vegas, NV ) – After the so-called “More Cops” proposal to raise the local sales tax went down to defeat before the Clark County Commission,  Commission Chair Steve Sisolak says the matter may no...

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Metro Officers Hurt In Crash

LAS VEGAS (AP) — Authorities say two police officers driving an inmate to jail were seriously injured in a crash at a Las Vegas intersection. Police say the crash happened about 4 p.m. Sunday on...

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Metro Officer Arrested On Child Pornography Charges

( Las Vegas, NV ) – Metro Police have arrested one of their own on child pornography charges. 37-year-old officer James Henry turned himself around 7 Thursday morning following a nearly 3-week...

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Possible Plea Deal In Henderson Police DUI

LAS VEGAS (AP) — A Henderson police officer is accused of having a blood-alcohol level more than twice the legal limit when he was arrested driving a pickup truck the wrong way on a northwest Las...

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Inmate Dies At Henderson Detention Center

HENDERSON, Nev. (AP) — Authorities say a cause of death is being investigated after a 48-year-old jail detainee died in a booking area of the Henderson city lockup. City spokeswoman Kathleen Richards...

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Bullhead City Police Officer Enters Sex Assault Plea

KINGMAN, Ariz. (AP) — A Bullhead City, Arizona, police sergeant has pleaded not guilty in one of two cases where he is accused of sexually assaulting a woman in Nevada. The Mohave Valley Daily News...

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Post Super Bowl DUI Checkpoint

( Las Vegas, NV ) – While sportsbooks counted money from bets won or lost on the Super Bowl football game, police from all over southern Nevada counted arrests at a post-game DUI checkpoint. Officers...

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1 Dead In Pick-Up Truck Accident

( Las Vegas, NV ) – The Nevada Highway Patrol reports an as-yet unidentified man died when the pick-up truck he was driving rolled over on State Route 156 east of US 95 northwest of Las Vegas. Trooper...

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SWAT Stand-Off Ends In Police Shooting

LAS VEGAS (AP) – Authorities say a man was shot and killed by police during an overnight SWAT standoff at an apartment near an entrance to Nellis Air Force Base in northeast Las Vegas. Metro Police...

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More Indictments Allege Drug Smuggling

LAS VEGAS (AP) — A federal prosecutor says three more men have been arrested in what investigators say was a cocaine-distribution ring that operated for more than two years between Las Vegas and...

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Motorcycle Officer Crashes Into Car

( Las Vegas, NV ) – A Metro Police motorcycle officer was hospitalized after crashing his bike into a car Monday afternoon. It happened at Desert inn Road and Tenaya around 5pm. Police say an SUV...

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Freeway Re-Opens After Fatal Crash

( Las Vegas, NV ) – A double-rollover crash at 5am Friday on US 95 past the Valley View interchange turned that major freeway into a virtual parking lot throughout the end-of-week morning commute. The...

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Body Found At Lake Mohave

( Lake Mohave, NV ) – A body found Wednesday night at Lake Mohave is that of the teenager who went missing after a cliff dive there at mid-day. Divers from Metro Police spent much of the afternoon...

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Fact-Finding Review In Jean Fatal Shooting

LAS VEGAS (AP) — Authorities in Las Vegas have scheduled a public review of the fatal police shooting of a man in a recreational vehicle in a Las Vegas-area skydiving landing zone more than a year...

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Arrest In Drive-By Shooting

( Las Vegas, NV ) –  Teenager surrenders to police in shooting of Cassandra Cassidy. Without saying where they got it, Metro Police released a short video that looks like it was taken on a cell phone...

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Officers Who Responded To Ambush Tell Their Stories

( Las Vegas, NV ) – Fighting back tears with quivering voices, the Metro Police officers who responded to the ambush that killed two of their own last year are now telling the stories of how that day...

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Police: Victim In Fatal Officer Shooting Was Gang Member

(Las Vegas, NV) — The man shot and killed by a Vegas police officer last weekend was a gang member and ex-con from Southern California. At a Tuesday news conference yesterday, Metro Undersheriff Kevin...

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Fatal Officer Involved Shooting Ends SWAT Stand-Off

NORTH LAS VEGAS, Nev. (AP) — Police say two North Las Vegas SWAT officers were wounded by a shotgun blast and the man who fired at them was killed in a shootout outside a home during a domestic...

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Police: Fatal Shooting Victim Scribbled Suicide Notes

LAS VEGAS (AP) — Las Vegas police have released the names of the SWAT officers who were involved in the fatal shooting of a woman who opened fire on them from a stolen car. Metro Police Undersheriff...

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