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A breakdown in communication between police supervisors and the firing officer might have contributed to the shooting Monday of disabled veteran Stanley Gibson, multiple department sources said.
Prosecutors and defense lawyers are far apart on how to proceed with a hearing next month to determine Dr. Dipak Desai’s competency to stand trial on criminal charges stemming from the hepatitis C outbreak.
Las Vegas police have shot 15 people dead in the past 18 months. But there is no federal investigation, even though fatal shootings in other cities have led to federal inquiries.
A former Las Vegas construction company employee was indicted by a Clark County grand jury Friday on charges of stealing more than $495,000 in a construction defect scheme.
A pair of Nevada laws that toughened sex offender registration requirements are unconstitutional, a civil rights lawyer told a federal appeals court panel Wednesday.
One of two men who robbed two convenience stores in April and then shot at police during a high-speed chase on valley streets and freeways was sentenced to 15 to 50 years in prison Thursday.
