Nye County News

Shoppers browse but don't buy fireworks Wednesday at a stand near Ann Road and Camino Eldorado in the parking lot of a Smith's shopping center.

Prosecutor Conrad Hafen, a deputy attorney general, said he hopes the Peter Liakopoulos' guilty verdict sends a message to other elected officials.

Special to the PVT Christmastime, complete with an early 20th century "pin-up" and fine wines in the dugout dwelling occupied by Josiah Irving Crowell at his Chloride Cliff mine.

HORACE LANGFORD JR. / PVT Flames threaten to jump across Buol Road. Medic 2 from Pahrump Valley Fire-Rescue Services is in the foreground.

Wed, Jul 1, 2009 Peter Liakopoulus, a former Nye County commissioner, was found guilty Wednesday in Nevada District Court of bribery and of gross misdemeanor offenses.

MARK WAITE / PVT Wulfenstein Construction chip sealing on Gardenia Street at the far south end of Pahrump Monday are ignored by longhorn steers in a nearby corral.

Wulfenstein Construction Co. filed a lawsuit against Celebrate Homes for $388,227 in paving costs at the proposed subdivision, now only a shell of a project with a wall surrounding it and paved streets inside -- a victim of the economic downturn.

Pahrump Museum and Historical Society members were still very tight-lipped about any details concerning the closure of the Pahrump Valley Museum June 11.

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.

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.

The quacking of ducks and honking of geese was a little quieter around the Calvada duck pond Monday morning, after a host of animal control officers drastically thinned the flock, transplanting them to the Bowman pond temporarily.

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.

Rent-A-Center won't be able to open a kiosk offering short-term loans, after Nye County Commissioners voted 3-1 Tuesday to uphold a recommendation by the Pahrump Regional Planning Commission requiring a 1,500-foot distance between check cashing and payday loan businesses.

Fri, Jun 19, 2009 A second lawsuit has been filed against Nye County over its regulation of brothels and the insistence by the county that there's no constitutional right to engage in legalized prostitution.

Nevada Assemblyman Ed Goedhart, R-Amargosa Valley, said legislation passed this session granting 55 percent abatements on real and personal property tax to solar power projects will still generate ample revenue for Nye County, countering the concerns of officials like Commissioner Joni Eastley.

About 50 people crammed into the Bob Ruud Community Center Tuesday morning to support a request by the Nye County School District for $1.8 million in the Educational Endowment Fund.

Greg Wallen was arrested in connection with the 1994 slaying and sexual assault of 7-year-old Diana Hernandez.

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.

The annual Nye County treasurer's sale in Pahrump garnered $579,765 in revenue on 162 properties, while a similar sale in Tonopah resulted in $20,718 collected on seven properties, according to Deputy Treasurer Angela Schallenberger.

A record $23 million-plus in federal payments is heading to Nevada counties this year to help offset losses in property taxes due to nontaxable federal lands within their boundaries.