Pahrump News

The development and maintenance contract for the town's Web site is due to be awarded and 20 firms submitted bids.

The sparse environment of the Ely prison courtroom is so far removed from the life Rick Tabish once had, it might as well be another solar system.

HORACE LANGFORD JR. / PVT The red barn on Loop Road went up in flames Thursday during a live-fire exercise.

Crime is on the rise in Pahrump. The sleepy, quirky hamlet just an hour's drive from Las Vegas has seen a hostage situation, a hostile car theft, a convenience store hold-up and a car chase-turned-shootout all in one day.

Great Basin College plans to use almost $7 million in federal stimulus funds to fill budget gaps and operate several programs through its Pahrump branch campus.

The last movie at the Saddle West Hotel and Casino aired at 6:30 p.m. Thursday with the showing of "Where The Wild Things Are." It ends a 14-month run during which the banquet room, used for bingo games by day, was partially converted into a theater at night.

I would like to explain this case to you. Back in 1989, I was the fire chief in Pahrump.

Pahrump gained 81 residents in the third quarter of 2009, increasing the population to 38,275, which is still 346 residents less than a year ago, according to estimates from the Nye County Planning Department.

Dan Rodriguez, the Pahrump Valley Chamber of Commerce president last year, who served as the interim executive director since Aug.

A steel reinforcing and erection license for Steel Structures and Supply Inc. dba Pahrump Steel was revoked by the Nevada State Contractors Board last Wednesday.

GINA B. GOOD / PVT The League of Women Voters organized a baking lesson at the Pahrump Bakery last week.

Beatty has now arrived in the 911 age, Milan Dimac, manager of information systems, told Nye County commissioners Tuesday.

A disturbing arrest out in Pahrump. The sheriff has leveled 40 counts of child abuse, lewdness and sexual assault against 57-year-old Samuel Vernon Hamett.

MARK WAITE / PVT Clark County Commissioner and candidate for govenror Rory Reid meets the party faithful, including, at left, Bill Verbeck and, at center, john and Marie Pray, at the home of Nye County Democratic Party Chairman Bonnie Swadling.

A 57-year-old Pahrump man accused of molesting 10 children faces additional charges after Nye County sheriff officials say he tried to intimidate and bribe a victim's mother into preventing her child from showing up in court to testify against him.

Coach Lori Barnum told her Virgin Valley volleyball players to finish the job during the first set of their match against Pahrump Valley.

Nye County Sheriff's Office detectives arrested a man this week, accusing him of lewdness with a 12-year-old girl.

Authorities say a 57-year-old Pahrump man has been arrested for allegedly molesting 10 children.

A former Nye County commissioner has been sentenced to five years' probation for his conviction in a felony bribery case.

Nye County Police have arrested 57 year old Samuel Hamett of Pahrump on child molestation charges.