Last week I started my column by asking what mistake of fact shootings, the LVMPD Foundation’s Best of the Badge (BOB), and a recent LVMPD YouTube video (http://youtu.be/aveRwkHrGhU) had in common.I also asked: Does Metro use some critical incidents just to get good publicity? Is Metro recognizing and rewarding some officers after they are involved[...]
By Zachariah Parry Earlier this year the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department announced that as a result of budget constraints, its officers would no longer be responding to most non-injury motor vehicle accidents. Since that change, insurance companies are becoming bolder in denying claims because of the increased difficulty in proving liability without a[...]
Editor’s Note: In last week’s article about Family Court, the names of Judge Robert Teuton and Hearing Master Thomas Kurtz were inadvertently omitted. They were important figures in the story of Anita Lumpkin’s odyssey to adopt her three minor grandchildren despite obstacles from court rulings [...]
For the first time in the history of the Las Vegas Tribune the newspaper took sides with a prosecutor that has broken the law and embarrassed the institution he so faithfully represented for a whole decade; later the newspaper’s founder had to apologize publicly to the judge handling the case. Former Clark County[...]
From The Desk Of Gordon Martines
No truer words were ever spoken, especially when things are going the way they are going now, pretty much downhill. It is bad enough that the highest leader of our country is considered a fabricator and a liar, along with being someone who hates America, but we also have to deal with these types[...]
Attorney Steve Stubbs came to my office pretending to be looking for a station to do a radio show on, probably hoping that I would refuse the offer, but when, surprisingly enough, I did not turn the offer down, he suddenly changed his mind about doing the show. This is how the chain[...]
Texas Gov. aims to use the National Guard to help deal with border crime and a humanitarian crisis. But he’s also turning up the heat on the Obama administration to improve border enforcement. By Francine Kiefer WASHINGTON — Rick Perry, the Republican governor of Texas, ordered up to 1,000 Texas National Guard forces[...]
Descend into the Havana underworld with author, mob history expert Scott Deitche at the Mob Museum Saturday, Aug. 9, 1 p.m.This August, Havana becomes the focus of special programming at The Mob Museum, The National Museum of Organized Crime and Law Enforcement. On Saturday, August 9 at 1 p.m., author and noted Mob expert Scott Deitche[...]
By Katie Pavlich Despite Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson vowing to “stem the tide” of unaccompanied illegal minors across the southern border with Mexico, thousands more are expected to enter the United States by the end of the year. With the system being overwhelmed, Border Patrol agents are concerned about minors who have admitted[...]
Two federal appeals courts issued contradictory rulings on whether millions of Americans enrolled in Obamacare are entitled to subsidies, an issue of vital importance to the health-care law. By Francine Kiefer Washington — Two federal appeals courts issued contradictory rulings Tuesday on a core part of the Affordable Care Act — whether[...]
