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Judge accepts not guilty plea from accused in one-punch death of Roy man in Vegas casino

Last updated Wednesday, May 16, 2012 - 9:25am

LAS VEGAS — A Nevada judge accepted a written not guilty plea on Tuesday for an absent Gainesville, Fla., man and scheduled his felony involuntary manslaughter trial in November in a case stemming from the one-punch death of a Utah man after racial insults in a Las Vegas Strip casino restroom.

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Judge accepts written plea in one-punch death of Roy man

Ken Ritter The Associated Press

Last updated Tuesday, May 15, 2012 - 3:10pm

LAS VEGAS — A Nevada judge accepted a written not guilty plea on Tuesday for an absent Gainesville, Fla., man and scheduled his felony involuntary manslaughter trial in November in a case stemming from the one-punch death of a Utah man after racial insults in a Las Vegas Strip casino restroom.

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U.S. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar tours the new Enbridge Silver State North Project solar facility in the Ivanpah Valley near Primm, Nev. The 600-acre array is the first large-scale solar power plant to be built on public land. (AP Photo/Las Vegas Review-Journal, Jessica Ebelhar)

Official flips switch on solar plant near Vegas

Ken Ritter The Associated Press

Last updated Monday, May 7, 2012 - 4:40pm

PRIMM, Nev. — The first commercial solar array approved and built on federal public land began producing electricity Monday from a sun-baked site in the Mojave Desert south of Las Vegas near the Nevada-California state line.

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Doctor gets bus rolling to revive drunk Vegas Strip revelers

Julie Jacobson, Ken Ritter The Associated Press

Last updated Monday, April 23, 2012 - 12:21pm

LAS VEGAS -- He had a Las Vegas wedding to attend, but Bryan Dalia was hung over from some marathon partying the night before.

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The Bellagio fountain sprays in sync with music during one of its afternoon shows, Tuesday, March 20, 2012, in Las Vegas. The Southern Nevada Water Authority won approval Thursday from Nevada's state engineer to pump up to 84,000 acre-feet of water from rural areas along the Nevada-Utah line to quench the thirst of the Las Vegas Valley. The water would provide a backup to drought-stricken Lake Mead. That's where Las Vegas currently gets almost all its drinking water. (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson)

Vegas water pipeline still years away

Ken Ritter The Associated Press

Last updated Friday, March 23, 2012 - 3:07pm

LAS VEGAS -- Water officials in Nevada's most populous city have one crucial approval in hand.

But they but still need another -- and billions of dollars -- before shovels hit the ground on a massive pipeline project to supply water from rural eastern Nevada to Las Vegas.

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(STEVE MARCUS/Standard-Examiner) Benjamin Gerard Hawkins (center) confers with defense attorneys James Kelly (left) and Jack Buchanan during a preliminary hearing in District Court in Las Vegas, Nev. on Tuesday. Hawkins, a Gainesville, Fla. teacher, is facing charges of involuntary manslaughter in connection with the death of another tourist after an altercation while visiting a Las Vegas Strip casino in July 2011.

Former Florida coach to face trial in Vegas death of Roy man

Ken Ritter The Associated Press

Last updated Tuesday, February 28, 2012 - 9:31pm

LAS VEGAS — A former Florida high school football coach will stand trial in Nevada on an involuntary manslaughter charge in the one-punch death of a man after racial insults in a Las Vegas Strip casino restroom, a judge decided Tuesday.

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Ex-football coach faces reduced charge in one-punch death of Roy man in Vegas

Ken Ritter The Associated Press

Last updated Tuesday, February 28, 2012 - 4:22pm

LAS VEGAS — A judge is considering whether a former Florida high school football coach should stand trial on an involuntary manslaughter charge in the one-punch slaying of a Roy, Utah man after racial insults in a Las Vegas Strip casino.

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Boxer Floyd Mayweather Jr., left, has his tie adjusted by his manager Leonard Ellerbe while waiting for sentencing in Clark County District Court, Wednesday, Dec. 21, 2011, in Las Vegas. Mayweather was sentenced to 90 days in jail after pleading guilty to reduced battery domestic violence and harassment charges. The 34-year-old was also ordered to complete 100 hours of community service and pay a $2,500 fine. The plea deal avoids trial on felony allegations that he hit his ex-girlfriend and threatened two of their children during an argument at her home in September 2010. (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson)

Boxer Flyod Mayweather due to serve 90 days in jail in Vegas

Ken Ritter The Associated Press

Last updated Friday, January 6, 2012 - 11:00am

LAS VEGAS -- Boxer Floyd Mayweather Jr. is due Friday to begin serving 90 days in a county jail in Las Vegas for his guilty plea in a domestic violence case involving an attack on his ex-girlfriend while two of their children watched in September 2010.

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Criminal charges filed in Utah-Nev crime spree

Ken Ritter The Associated Press

Last updated Thursday, January 5, 2012 - 5:29pm

ELKO, Nev — A Utah man and a woman have been charged with conspiracy, kidnapping, armed robbery and stealing vehicles in a crime spree that investigators believe started in central Utah before ending in Nevada’s cold desert.

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Elko police seize pot from Utah-bound ski buses

Ken Ritter The Associated Press

Last updated Thursday, December 29, 2011 - 5:30pm

ELKO -- A police chief in northern Nevada said Thursday he decided to use the discovery of marijuana on five Utah-bound buses carrying 250 underage skiers from Northern California as a teaching moment instead of an enforcement headache.

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NTSB releases prelim report on Vegas chopper crash

Ken Ritter The Associated Press

Last updated Tuesday, December 13, 2011 - 12:46pm

LAS VEGAS -- Federal investigators are looking at unexpected turns and a sudden climb that a Las Vegas sightseeing helicopter made moments before a crash that killed the pilot and four passengers who were marking marriage milestones.

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File-In this Saturday, Dec. 10, 2011 file photo provided by the National Transportation Safety Board, investigators examine the wreckage of a sightseeing tour helicopter from Las Vegas that crashed in the Lake Mead National Recreation Area in Nevada near the Hoover Dam. The Wednesday, Dec. 7, 2011 crash killed the pilot and four tourists, including a couple from Kansas and a couple from New Delhi, India. Federal crash investigators plan Monday, Dec. 12, 2011 to airlift large pieces of charred wreckage from the remote canyon as they wind up their on-site probe of a Las Vegas sightseeing helicopter crash that killed five people. (AP Photo/NTSB)

Crews to remove Nev. helicopter wreckage by air

Katy Daigle, Ken Ritter The Associated Press

Last updated Monday, December 12, 2011 - 3:05pm

LAS VEGAS -- Friends in India mourned the deaths of a honeymooning couple who were among five people killed in a sightseeing helicopter crash near Las Vegas, while U.S. crash investigators worked Monday to airlift large pieces of charred wreckage from the remote canyon where the aircraft went down.

A National Transportation Safety Board spokesman Peter Knudson in Washington, D.C., said pieces of the Aerospatiale AS-350BS would be taken to Phoenix for study by teams from the NTSB and the French accident investigation agency BEA. NTSB officials said BEA is involved because the aircraft was built in France.

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National Transportation Safety Board member Mark Rosekind speaks to members of the media about a helicopter crash during a news conference at McCarran International Airport Thursday, Dec. 8, 2011, in Las Vegas. A tour helicopter crashed killing the pilot and four passengers on Dec. 7. (AP Photo/Isaac Brekken)

5 bodies removed from Vegas tour crash site

Cristina Silva, Ken Ritter The Associated Press

Last updated Friday, December 9, 2011 - 10:17am

LAS VEGAS -- Rescue crews completed the difficult process of recovering bodies Thursday from a remote canyon outside Las Vegas after the crash of a tour helicopter belonging to a company with repeated aviation violations.

Sundance Helicopters of Las Vegas had at least five accidents and was the subject of 10 federal enforcement actions since 1994. It charted a luxury sunset tour of the Las Vegas Strip and Hoover Dam on Wednesday that killed a 31-year-old pilot and his four passengers.

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Clark County Coroner Michael Murphy, center, talks with Las Vegas Metropolitan Police search and rescue crew members after an aerial inspection of a helicopter crash site, Thursday, Dec. 8, 2011, in Las Vegas. Five people died when a helicopter on a tour of the Las Vegas Strip and Hoover Dam crashed in a remote site near Lake Mead on Tuesday night killing the pilot and four passengers. (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson)

Remote location will complicate Nev. crash recovery, probe

Ken Ritter The Associated Press

Last updated Thursday, December 8, 2011 - 3:10pm

LAS VEGAS -- The recovery of bodies and investigation into the crash of a Nevada tour helicopter that killed the pilot and four passengers will be complicated because of the remote canyon location near Lake Mead, an investigator said Thursday.

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Utah man appeals death penalty

Ken Ritter The Associated Press

Last updated Monday, October 3, 2011 - 11:35pm

LAS VEGAS — The fate of a Nevada prison inmate condemned for a fatal knife attack on two girls could hinge on whether a police dispatcher serving on his death penalty jury tainted deliberations when she told other jurors she had heard of convicts going free and committing other crimes.

A lawyer for Beau Maestas, who grew up in Utah, challenged the constitutionality of one jury deciding Maestas’ fate after a previous jury deadlocked. Tony Sgro focused Monday on what he characterized as misconduct by the female juror.

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