Pahrump News

In a near-empty courtroom here Monday, Maureen Fitzgerald Fields, New Jersey native who vanished in the desert outside her home here three years ago, was officially declared dead.

The Nye County Sheriff's Office is asking for assistance in identifying these two people.

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

We'll find ways to stretch your dollars, methods for trimming your spending and my favorite ... free stuff.

FILE PHOTO From left, Willi Baer, Veronica Sommer, Joyce Schnelzer, Jaime Hall and Vicky Parker perform Sweet Violets at last year's Blue Butterfly Coffee House held at the Pahrump Nugget.

MARK WAITE / PVT Former Nye County Commissioner Peter Liakopoulos, at right, and public defender Tom Gibson leave 5th District Court after the guilty verdict.

A former Nye County commissioner has been found guilty of trying to bribe a Pahrump Town Board member in December 2007.

The Nevada Highway Patrol says a motorcyclist from Pahrump is dead and a 27-year-old woman was arrested on a drunk driving charge after a crash early Monday on State Route 160.

GINA B. GOOD / PVT Stephanie Lopez attended her first town board meeting to support Town Manager Bill Kohbarger.

Nobody in the business world has emerged unscathed from the financial carnage wreaked by the global recession.

The Corporation for National and Community Service has honored seven members of the Senior Corps and AmeriCorps.

MARK WAITE / PVT A closed sign along with a padlock and chain mark the entrance to the Pahrump Valley Museum at 401 E. Basin Ave.

Pahrump Town Board member Frank Maurizio has placed an item on Tuesday's meeting agenda to discuss and possibly decide whether to terminate the employment of Town Manager Bill Kohbarger without cause.

MARK WAITE / PVT Front Sight consultant Dennis Bradley, at right, points while he gives a tour last month of the shooting ranges inside Spanish-style facades to Nye County officials, from left, Commissioner Butch Borasky, planner Steve Osborne, building inspector Dick Johnson, Nye County Manager Rick Osborne, consultant Al Balloqui and Commissioner ...

GINA B. GOOD / PVT Members of the Pahrump Elks Lodge salute the flag. After the ceremony in honor of Flag Day, attendees enjoyed a red white and blue decorated cake for the 234th birthday of the U.S. Army.

On Tuesday, June 16, Pahrump streets were made safer after 22 arrests of individuals heavily involved in the narcotics sub-culture were made by members of the Nye County Sheriff's Office SCORPION Narcotics Task Force and the NCSO Street Crimes Unit.

Developer Curt Moen expects to break ground on a 71-bed, assisted-living facility by the end of July right behind his Pahrump Early Learning Academy at 1560 S. Java Ave., after receiving a waiver on parking requirements from the Pahrump Regional Planning Commission Wednesday.

Police say a convicted sex offender and former neighbor has been arrested in the sexual assault slaying of a 7-year-old girl whose body was found in a Las Vegas apartment complex trash bin on Easter Sunday 1994.

Family members of slain 7-year-old Diana Hernandez await word at their home Monday on whether Las Vegas police arrested a suspect in the 15-year-old case.

MARK WAITE / PVT Bill Browning, at left, and Buster Scholl, from Charles Abbott and Associates, the firm that runs the Pahrump Building and Safety Department, walk among piles of brick and sand as work begins on the addition to the Nye County Courthouse at 1520 E. Basin Ave.