By Yesenia Amaro, Las Vegas Review-Journal Children in the juvenile justice system often face different competency issues than adults in the criminal system. But Nevada currently lacks a statute to address competency issues among juveniles. Officials have used adult criminal procedures as a guide instead, said Susan Roske, an attorney with the Clark County juvenile […]
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By Margot Roosevelt, Orange County Register After a long, slow recovery, California last month finally regained all the jobs lost during the recession, powered by fast growth in the Bay Area and a steady hiring pace in Los Angeles, Orange County and the Inland Empire. The state’s unemployment rate, adjusted for seasonal changes, notched down […]
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By Kathryn Reed STATELINE – Watch the American Century Championship on television and it’s like the coverage is choreographed. Watch it from the control room and one wonders how the end product is so smooth. “Sunday it will be even more hectic. People will be screaming and yelling. But people say they know what they […]
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By Denny Walsh and Sam Stanton, Sacramento Bee For the 30 or 40 Mexican laborers looking for work, the pitch seemed too good to be true. They would receive temporary work visas to get into the United States, then be driven to Northern California forests to trim trees at $16.47 an hour. The jobs would […]
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By Tovin Lapan, Las Vegas Sun Every time the phone rings these days, Rosa Molina steels herself for a heart-wrenching story. She has been taking far more calls than usual from immigrants, and many of them are sharing tales of abuse and violence. This week, she has already taken a call from a mother who […]
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By Kathryn Reed Party central – that is what the former Horizon casino is about to be transformed into when it opens this winter as Hard Rock Lake Tahoe. Don Marrandino, aka Big D to those who knew him when he oversaw Harrah’s Lake Tahoe and Harveys from 2003-05, is going to run the property. […]
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By Maura Dolan and Victoria Kim, Los Angeles Times A federal judge’s ruling that California’s death penalty is unconstitutional was described by legal experts Wednesday as stunning and unprecedented. The ruling by U.S. District Judge Cormac J. Carney found that decades-long delays and uncertainty about whether condemned inmates will ever be executed violate the constitution’s […]
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By Susan Wood STATELINE – It’s 7am Monday and there’s as much bustling around as a New York City subway station. But this is Edgewood Tahoe – home of the 25th American Century Championship golf tournament. Work crews are not only busy preparing the grounds for the South Shore’s premier event of the summer, but […]
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By Sean Whaley, Las Vegas Review Journal CARSON CITY — A coalition of wine enthusiasts has formed to lobby the 2015 Legislature to allow production and sales of the fermented beverage in Clark and Washoe counties. Nevada law now bans the selling of wine that is made “on premise” in counties with more than 100,000 […]
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By Erin Breen, KTVN-TV It is a beautifully calm day on Lake Tahoe as Ben Caldwell and his dad, Sonny, launch their boat from Cave Rock. They are headed for their first set of crawfish traps about 20 minutes away. “This is the greatest cubicle anyone could ever work in,” says Ben with a smile. […]
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