• Henderson Police Department fees to change

  The Henderson City Council voted Tuesday to change some police service fees. For instance, the Henderson Police Department now will charge 10 cents a page for accident reports. The department previously charged a flat $5 fee for such reports. The Police Department previously charged a minimum of $40 for audio tape reproduction and $60 for a CD with digital photos, but it now will charge $1 for ...

• Las Vegas man pleads guilty in $5.6M embezzlement www.privateofficer.com

  (AP) -- A Las Vegas man has pleaded guilty to fraud charges in connection with the embezzlement of $5.6 million from the prominent builder of residential high-rises in Vegas over nearly five years. U.S. Attorney Daniel Bogden says Rocco Lazazzaro, 55, of Las Vegas pleaded guilty Monday to conspiracy to commit wire fraud at the Florida-based Turnberry Associates. He says Lazazzaro was ...

• Henderson awards contract for pedestrian bridge

  The Henderson City Council awarded a $170,000 contract Tuesday for the construction of a pedestrian bridge near the intersection of Galleria Drive and Stephanie Street. City staff proposed the bridge in response to area residents who have long requested pedestrian access over a flood control channel that runs along Stephanie Street. "That wash has been a natural obstruction for years that ...

• Henderson City Council approves 2014 budget

  By City Manager Jacob Snow's definition, Henderson is not a "premier city" yet, but it's getting close. Snow likes to say that Henderson cannot meet its goal of being a premier city without a balanced budget. Although it doesn't have one yet, Snow predicts it will by the end of fiscal 2014. "We're moving in the right direction," the city manager said last ...

• Las Vegas approves $482 million general fund budget with deficit predicted for 2014

  A little time didn't make much difference for the Las Vegas 2014 budget: City Hall still predicts a $10 million general fund deficit. The City Council on Tuesday unanimously approved next year's spending plan with small adjustments made since council members got a first look at the document in April. That included adding 1.5 city-funded positions and slightly increasing the amount of ...

• County commissioners consider codes governing reflexology establishments

  Clark County Commissioner Mary Beth Scow has heard complaints from residents about reflexology establishments offering full body massages and advertising "personal services." Commissioners on Tuesday discussed putting reflexology establishments under the same county code requirements as massage therapists. If commissioners end up approving the change, that could mean reflexology ...

• Bill would divert some water sewer funds to provide a little relief in North Las Vegas

  Tuesday, May 21, 2013 | 6:43 p.m. Assembly Speaker Marilyn Kirkpatrick, D-North Las Vegas, plans to introduce a bill that would give the North Las Vegas financial relief. She said her bill would allow the city to access an indeterminate amount of money currently locked in its water and sewer funds. City residents pay into the funds via their water and sewer bills, and the city usually spends ...

• Madagascar lemurs multiply in Moapa

  A staff member at Roos-N-More zoo on Tuesday holds a baby red-ruffed lemur, one of three of that were born at the small, family-owned facility in Moapa on May ...

• County seeks federal help to use mountainside land for recreation

  Clark County owns about 1,221 acres of land with mountain ridges on the western edge the valley. It has received inquiries from private companies interested in leasing some of the scenic land and bringing an added recreational dimension to the area, such as a zip line or a mountain biking facility. But federal restrictions on the land, which the county received from the Bureau of Land Management ...

• Kingman childcare owner sentenced to prison in tax case

  A northwest Arizona businesswoman was sentenced Monday to 18 months in federal prison for withholding nearly $320,000 in income taxes between 2004 and 2011. A U.S. district judge in Phoenix also ordered Raycene Osterman, 55, to pay full restitution to the IRS and undergo three years of supervision upon her release. Osterman is the founder and president of K-Top, Inc., the parent company for ...

• Sandoval signs transgender hate crime bill

  CARSON CITY -- A bill allowing judges to impose extra sentences on people who commit crimes because the victim is a transgender person was signed into law Tuesday by Gov. Brian Sandoval. Senate Bill 139 was sponsored Sen. Patricia Spearman, D-North Las Vegas, a pastor and openly gay member of the Legislature. Sandoval had previously indicated he would sign the measure. Spearman said in earlier ...

• Clark Countys top election official appointed to presidential commission

  Clark County Registrar Larry Lomax was one of ten individuals appointed to the Presidential Commission on Election Administration Tuesday, according to a White House press release. The commission was created following President Barack Obama's pledge during his State of the Union speech to identify non-partisan ways to make voting easier for all participants. Obama highlighted a 102-year-old ...

• Las Vegas City Council OKs slightly larger budget for next year

  Tuesday, May 21, 2013 | 5:30 p.m. With the deadline for submitting a final budget approaching, the Las Vegas City Council approved a $481 million general fund budget for the next fiscal year during a special meeting Tuesday ...

• Services set for teen killed in attempted iPad robbery

  A viewing has been set Thursday afternoon for Marcos Vicente Arenas, the 15-year-old killed while hanging onto his iPad during an attempted robbery last week. On the same day, the two men charged in his death will appear in Las Vegas Justice Court to argue their bail and set a preliminary hearing on murder charges. The viewing will take place between 3 p.m. and 7 p.m. at Palm Northwest Mortuary ...

• Southern Nevadans reach out to tornado-stricken Oklahomans

  As Oklahomans struggle to recover from a massive tornado that wrought devastation Monday afternoon, Southern Nevadans are stepping up with recovery aid and assistance.The American Red Cross of Southern Nevada already has one volunteer in Moore, Okla., a suburb of Oklahoma City where at least 24 people were killed in the disaster.Jennifer Ramieh left Las Vegas Monday afternoon and arrived at a ...

• Economic development group backs gas tax bill

  Legislation that could raise gas taxes in Clark County got another supporter Tuesday as the area's main economic development group backed the proposal. "This is critical to our future. I cannot stress that enough," said Tom Skancke, president and CEO of the Las Vegas Global Economic Alliance, former known as the Nevada Development Authority. Skancke said the organization rarely ...

• House passes automatic COLA for veterans benefits

  WASHINGTON -- The House on Tuesday approved a bill that would automatically adjust cost-of-living increases for veterans benefits. The measure by Reps. Dina Titus, D-Nev., and Jon Runyan, R-N.J., was passed by voice vote.It would adjust Veterans Administration benefits each year much in the way that Social Security benefits are adjusted for inflation. Under current law Congress must approve ...

• Senate panel approves sweeping immigration bill

  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday approved legislation that would bring about the biggest changes in U.S. immigration policy in a generation, setting up a spirited debate in the full Senate next ...

• Nevada Assembly overwhelmingly OKs oral chemo cancer insurance bill

  CARSON CITY -- A bill that would require insurance companies that provide cancer coverage to pay a bigger share of the cost of new oral chemotherapy medications passed the Assembly with a unanimous vote Tuesday. Changes made to Senate Bill 266 in the Assembly will have to be agreed to by the Senate before the bill can go to Gov. Brian Sandoval for his consideration. The bill was sponsored by ...

• Driver flees after hitting teen in southwest valley

  A teenager was hospitalized Tuesday after being struck by a vehicle that jumped the curb then left the scene, Las Vegas police said. The teen, who was on a sidewalk, was hit about 2:45 p.m. near Tropicana Avenue and Jones Boulevard, police said. Police found the vehicle in the 5700 block of Rochelle Drive. Police said one person was in custody, but it was unclear at the time if the person was ...

• Clark County appoints permanent juvenile justice services director

  John "Jack" Martin will officially take the helm of the Clark County Department of Juvenile Justice Services. The Clark County Commission on Tuesday voted to ratify Martin's appointment as director. He had been serving as acting director since October. Martin's annual base salary will be $129,685, according to Dan Kulin, Clark County spokesman. Martin replaces Russ Jennings, ...

• Reid fundraiser draws designer audience

  Far from Searchlight, Sen. Harry Reid held a cocktail party fundraiser Friday in New York City hosted by Marianne Nestor Cassini, who runs Oleg Cassini Inc., the fashion design company named after her late husband.Women's Wear Daily sent ...

• Denis Democrats wont be able to raise Nevada taxes for education this session

  CARSON CITY -- Senate Majority Leader Mo Denis conceded in a floor speech Tuesday that Democrats will not be able to raise taxes this session to provide the $300 million in education improvement they sought. "At the end of the day we will do nothing to help our kids," said the Las Vegas Democrat. "It is really a shame." Contact Capital Bureau Chief Ed Vogel ...

• IRS official to refuse to testify at House hearing

  Cliff Toye of Tabernacle, N.J., takes part in a tea party rally Tuesday outside the Internal Revenue Service offices in Cherry Hill, N.J. The rally was to protest extra IRS scrutiny of conservative ...

• Psychiatric exam ordered for suspect in slaying of 5 in Northern Nevada

  FERNLEY -- A judge on Tuesday ordered a psychiatric evaluation for a 25-year-old Northern Nevada man accused of killing two couples in two homes in the rural town of Fernley and a newspaper deliveryman off an Interstate 80 exit in Sparks during the Mother's Day weekend. Jeremiah Bean appeared calm during a short hearing at which Fernley Justice of the Peace Robert J. Bennett granted a ...

• Search nearly complete after Oklahoma tornado

  Justin Stehan salvages photographs from his tornado-ravaged home Tuesday, May 21, 2013, in Moore, Okla. A huge tornado roared through the Oklahoma City suburb Monday, flattening entire neighborhoods and destroying an elementary school with a direct blow as children and teachers huddled against winds. (AP Photo/Charlie ...

• Las Vegas urology clinics agree to pay $1 million settlement in medical billing case

  A local urology practice will pay $1 million to the U.S. Department of Justice for improperly billing numerous federal health care organizations, according to Nevada U.S. Attorney Daniel Bogden. Las Vegas Urology, which has seven Las Vegas locations, improperly billed health care agencies such as Medicare, TRICARE, and others from 2005 to 2010. The company settled with the Justice Department ...

• Las Vegas Urology Agrees to $1 Million Settlement

  LAS VEGAS -- The two men facing murder charges in the death of a 15-year-old high school student appeared in a Las Vegas courtroom Tuesday morning. Michael Solid, 21, and Jacob Dismont, 18, made ...

• Consultant at Desai trial More clinic patients better sales price

  In the mid-2000s, Dr. Dipak Desai was shopping his clinics around and, as his business consultant testified Tuesday, facilities with higher volumes of traffic garnered the higher sales price. Lawrence Preston, a health care consultant, said endoscopy clinics could go for around $5 million or $6 million. Most of the national companies that expressed interest in Desai's Shadow Lane facility ...

• Police investigating suspicious death at Las Vegas house

  Tuesday, May 21, 2013 | 12:26 p.m. Metro Police homicide detectives were investigating a suspicious death Tuesday at a house in the 8000 block of Green Pasture Avenue in northwest Las Vegas. Police were called about 11 a.m. after a woman was found dead in the house in the area of Lone Mountain Road and Durango Drive, police spokesman Sgt. John Shehan said. A homicide unit was dispatched because ...

• Incident fuels speculation of Pope Francis as exorcist

  VATICAN CITY -- Is Pope Francis an exorcist? The question has bubbled up ever since Francis laid his hands on the head of a young man in a wheelchair after celebrating Sunday Mass in St. Peter's Square. The young man heaved deeply a half-dozen times, shook, then slumped in his wheelchair as Francis prayed over him. The television station of the Italian bishops' conference reported ...

• Key figure indicted in Las Vegas HOA scheme claimed Attorney General Masto approved his plan

  Leon Benzer, indicted in a scheme to take over homeowners associations in the Las Vegas Valley, says he had approval from Nevada Attorney General Catherine Cortez ...

• Arias reverses on death penalty asks jurors for life sentence

  Jodi Arias told a jury on Tuesday that she can contribute to society through volunteer programs in prison. She was allowed to address the jury as part of the penalty phase, following her conviction in the death of Travis Alexander. Arias, shown here during a May 1 court appearance, could get the death ...

• Nevada gun background checks bill clears Senate Finance

  Neil Heslin, whose 6-year-old son Jesse was killed in Newtown, Conn., in the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in December, speaks on Tuesday in Carson City during a rally to require background checks on private sale gun purchases in Nevada. Gilles Rousseau, left, whose daughter Lauren was among the staff killed that day, also spoke at the rally. Senate Bill 221 passed the Senate Finance ...

• The Hangover Part III revisits Las Vegas

  New Delhi, May 21 : The third installment of "The Hangover" series will take the lead characters of the movie back to Las Vegas, where the plot of the first movie was ...

• Photographer describes destroyed Oklahoma school rescue of children

  A child is pulled from beneath a collapsed wall at Plaza Towers Elementary School Monday after a tornado struck the school in Moore, Okla. The tornado, as much as a mile wide with winds up to 200 mph, roared through the Oklahoma City suburb, flattening entire neighborhoods and landing a direct blow on this elementary ...

• Nevada Senate kills special license plate bill

  CARSON CITY -- In a rare vote that killed a bill, the Senate late Monday evening on a 10-11 vote rejected an Assembly-approved bill that would have limited the designs charitable groups can place on special license plates. Assembly Bill 243 was among only four bills that have been killed this session, which has just two weeks to go, according to Senate Secretary David Byerman. Sen. Don ...

• Mohave County jail inmate died from ulcer examiner finds

  KINGMAN, Ariz. -- The weekend death of a Mohave County jail inmate was blamed on complications from a gastric ulcer, according to a preliminary finding by a medical examiner. The final cause of death for Gilberto Alvarado Avila Jr. will be determined once a toxicology analysis is complete, Mohave County Sheriff's Office spokeswoman Trish Carter said. Avila had been in the Kingman ...

• Police closing missing Utah womans case

  This evidence photo released Monday by the West Valley City Police Department shows a journal collected from Josh and Susan Powell's house. Citing a lack of leads, a police agency said Monday that it is closing the active investigation of the disappearance of Susan Powell, a Utah mother whose now-dead husband was a prime ...

• Attorneys appointed for two Las Vegas men jailed in iPad killing

  Two men will remain jailed without bail pending another court appearance in the death of a teenage boy who police say fell beneath the wheels of their vehicle when he refused to give up his iPad. A judge on Tuesday appointed attorneys to represent 21-year-old Michael Samuel Solid and 18-year-old Jacob "Jake" Dismont. Another hearing was set Thursday to consider bail amounts and pick a ...

• Clark County approves $1.2 billion 2014 budget

  Clark County commissioners Monday approved a $1.2 billion budget for the next fiscal year that reflects a cautious outlook in response to the local economy's slow climb out of the recession. The budget isn't marked by the steep cuts made in the years immediately following the economic collapse in 2008. Nor does it have a rosy outlook with revenue growing rapidly. Instead, there's ...

• Nevada freeway message signs used to urge driver caution

  Driver's will get a grim reminder of the dangers of unsafe driving starting 6 a.m. Wednesday as they traverse Las Vegas freeways. The digital message signs that now state travel times will also display statewide traffic death numbers. They also will have safe driving tips, including reminders to wear a seat belt and never drive while impaired, according to the Nevada Department of ...

• Far-right activist commits suicide in Paris Notre Dame cathedral

  PARIS (Reuters) - Police evacuated Paris' Notre Dame cathedral on Tuesday after a well-known far-right former activist committed suicide by shooting himself in the mouth in front of its main altar, a police source ...

• 2 donkeys suspected in mauling death in Hungary

  BUDAPEST, Hungary -; Hungarian police say they are investigating an incident in which an elderly man may have been mauled to death by two ...

• Las Vegas casino hosts fundraiser for California senator on eve of key vote

  Senate President Pro Temp Darrell Steinberg, D-Sacramento speaks with Senator Ricardo Lara, D-Bell Gardens during session in the Senate chambers in Sacramento, Calif. on Monday, March 11, ...

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