The median salary and benefits for the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department was $134,845 in 2022, public records show.
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Several Clark County government officials were among the nation’s top 5 percent of wage earners in 2022, records show.
JoNell Thomas retired after a county human resource investigation found she failed to address bullying and harassment in the office.
The number of employees at the Southern Nevada Health District grew by almost two-thirds during the COVID-19 pandemic, records show.
In 2022, 47 employees with the city of Mesquite took home more than $100,000 in wages each.
Adolfo Orozco’s attorney argued for the cellphone to be returned and any future search be limited to the deadly December fire. A judge Tuesday sided with police.
The downtown apartment building, focus of a criminal investigation, was burglarized three days last week and officers arrested two suspects.
Problems plagued Adolfo Orozco’s real estate enterprise long before a December fire, according to interviews with former tenants-turned-workers and hundreds of records.
The Nevada Supreme Court has ruled autopsies are public in response to an RJ lawsuit. Clark County spent more than $80,000 in taxpayer money fighting to keep autopsies secret.
The former Henderson constable wanted to keep his police powers despite pleading to a gross misdemeanor charge, but the state police board revoked his certification.
A court filing shows investigators seized an Alpine owner’s cellphone and alleges that a live-in property manager “ordered” the rear door bolted shut before the deadly Dec. 21 fire.
Gamblers, celebrities, businesspeople and criminal suspects were among those who stored up to $70 million in cash and valuables in safe deposit boxes.
The Nevada Board of Dental Examiners provided two top staffers it terminated with months of separation pay and health insurance benefits.
After the December fire left six dead, and a criminal investigation was opened, concerns about evidence preservation and asbestos exposure complicate the issue.
New data raises questions about overbilling and double billing of patients and insurance by UNLV dental school.