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Police issue rental fraud warnings

With rental fraud on the rise both nationally and in the valley, Las Vegas police announced Thursday ways citizens can protect themselves and neighbors from being victimized.

Death penalty upheld in 1979 slaying

CARSON CITY — The Nevada Supreme Court for the third time has upheld the death penalty against Edward Thomas Wilson, convicted in the 1979 killing of an undercover Reno police officer for whom a memorial to fallen officers is named.

Las Vegas man gets prison for 2010 robberies

James Henderson Haines, a Las Vegas man who robbed three banks and five other businesses at gunpoint in two weeks last November, was sentenced Thursday to nearly two decades in federal prison.

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Husband of state senator arrested in Las Vegas

Las Vegas police last week arrested the husband of state Sen. Elizabeth Halseth on a charge of open and gross lewdness in connection with a dispute between the couple in their home.

Las Vegas police say suspect tried to escape from patrol car

A man arrested Monday for attempted murder unsuccessfully tried to escape custody through the right rear window of a patrol vehicle en route to the Clark County Detention Center, according to Las Vegas police.

Pair ask court to dismiss charges in suspicious fire

Lawyers for construction defects lawyer Nancy Quon and her ex-cop boyfriend, William Ronald Webb, filed court papers Wednesday seeking to dismiss an indictment charging the couple in a suspicious October 2010 fire at Quon’s home.

Mayweather found not guilty of harassment

Boxer Floyd Mayweather Jr. was found not guilty Wednesday of two counts of misdemeanor harassment stemming from an obscenity-laced confrontation with security guards over parking tickets.

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