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3 hrs ago | SF Gate

Speed limit lowered to 50 mph near Red Rock Canyon

State authorities have lowered the speed limit to 50 mph on a busy highway past Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area west of Las Vegas.

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7 hrs ago | The Las Vegas Sun

Vegas gang member pleads guilty in '04 shooting

The U.S. attorney for Nevada says a Las Vegas street gang member has pleaded guilty to two counts in connection with a 2004 shooting at a North Las Vegas apartment complex.

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11 hrs ago | Las Vegas Review Journal

Ashley's contract not renewed; Smatresk now acting president

UNLV President David Ashley speaks before the Board of Regents on Friday, July 10, 2009, who met to review his performance evaluation.

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15 hrs ago | SF Gate

Report: Public defenders have impossible caseloads

Overwhelming caseloads faced by public defenders in the Las Vegas and Reno areas, Nevada's population centers, result in a lack of "competent and diligent" assistance to indigents charged with crimes, a new report states.

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20 hrs ago | Las Vegas Review Journal

Judge blocks Mob Museum work in contract dispute

A dispute over a $11.5 million contract to renovate the historic federal and post office building in downtown Las Vegas might delay opening of the Mob Museum that it will become.

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Fri Jul 10, 2009

San Jose Mercury News

Fisherman reels in alligator at Las Vegas lake

Animal control officials say a man angling for catfish at a Sunset Park lake instead reeled in a 3 1/2-foot-long alligator.

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Sacramento Bee Newspaper

ACLU backs street performers in Las Vegas lawsuit

The American Civil Liberties Union of Nevada has filed a federal civil rights lawsuit against police and public officials on behalf of two Las Vegas Strip street performers after one was arrested in March.

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Las Vegas Sun

3 plead guilty after illegal immigrants held for ransom

Three men have pleaded guilty to holding seven illegal immigrants in a Las Vegas motel room against their will.

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KVBC-TV

Trial begins in NY, NY Casino gunfire case

A defense lawyer in Las Vegas cast a 2007 casino shooting by a 53-year-old unemployed house painter as a cry for attention from a broken man who hoped police would shoot him dead.

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RGT Online

Fontainebleau files motion to leave offices

Las Vegas Gaming Wire LAS VEGAS, Nevada a '- Fontainebleau Las Vegas employees have moved into new offices in Las Vegas while the developer tries to get the bankrupt Strip project back on track.

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Thu Jul 09, 2009

Las Vegas Sun

Police say North Las Vegas mana s death suspicious

North Las Vegas Police are investigating the suspicious death of a 70-year-old man found after a landscaper reported an unusual odor coming from the mana s home, the police department announced today.

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KansasCity.com

Ensign's parents gave mistress's family $96k

Sen. John Ensign said Thursday his parents gave his mistress and her family nearly $100,000 "out of concern for the well being of longtime family friends during a difficult time," providing his first public acknowledgment that the woman received payments tied to the affair.In a statement through his attorney, Ensign described the April 2008 payment ...

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KOLO-TV Reno

Woman's Body Found in Burned Apartment in Vegas

Police and fire officials are investigating thedeath of a woman whose body was found in a burning apartment in southeast Las Vegas.

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KVBC-TV

Coroner: Man killed by police was shot in back

The Clark County coroner says a man who was shot and killed by Las Vegas police last week died from a perforating gunshot wound to the back, not the chest as his office reported earlier this week.

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Las Vegas Review Journal

Police: Man fatally stabbed in bar fight

A middle-age man was fatally stabbed Monday in an early morning bar fight in southwest Las Vegas, police said.

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KVBC-TV

Ex-mistress' husband says Ensign paid severance

The husband of Sen. John Ensign's former mistress says the Nevada Republican paid the woman $25,000 in severance when she stopped working for the senator.

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Wed Jul 08, 2009

Las Vegas Review Journal

Supreme Court lets Las Vegas man keep 'HOE' license plate

A Las Vegas man won a court battle today with the Nevada Department of Motor Vehicles over his "HOE" license plate, which the agency refused to renew on grounds that he was using a slang reference to prostitutes.

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The Modesto Bee

Police in Vegas arrest 2 Georgia prison fugitives

Police in Las Vegas say they've arrested two fugitives from a Georgia prison. Lt. Ted Lee says 32-year-old Herman Freeman and 33-year-old Gregory Walker were arrested Tuesday after detectives found a stolen 1991 Mazda Miata with Georgia license plates and saw them walking near a low-budget Las Vegas Boulevard hotel.

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Reno Gazette-Journal

Heidi Fleiss pleads guilty in Nevada to felony drug charges

PAHRUMP - Former "Hollywood Madam" Heidi Fleiss has pleaded guilty to felony drug charges in Nevada, but will avoid a return trip to prison.

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KEYE-TV Austin

Lohan turned down 'Hangover' role

Actress Lindsay Lohan appears at the Wet Republic pool at the MGM Grand Hotel/Casino as she celebrates her birthday and her Sevin Nyne brand tanning mist June 27, 2009 in Las Vegas, Nevada.

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