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Vote to organize VEA workers flops

Valley Electric Association management successfully fended off an attempt by the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 396 last month to organize employees at the cooperative.

NOT a nation of immigrants

I don’t know about you, but I’m sick and tired of hearing this old cliché that we’re “a nation of immigrants.”

Man sues cops, county over murder charge

Two years after his release from the county jail, a former inmate has filed a $1 million lawsuit against the Nye County Sheriff’s Office, several of its investigators and a former county medical examiner for damages he claims he suffered after he was wrongly accused of murder.

Correction

In the June 26 issue of the PVT, the story on A1 about the Miss Pahrump Pageant was written by Charlene Dean, not Mark Waite. In the accompanying photos, Miss Pahrump 2012 Sabrina Maughan crowned the first and second runners-up, not Miss Pahrump 2013 Brittany Leavitt.

Entertainment Briefs

The Singles Friendship Club has the following activities scheduled:

Crime Corner

COURTS: Judge hammers felon arrested three times in six months

In Brief

I broke my thumb in four to five different places. I hit it so hard that my knuckle blew out the end of my thumb and I severed all the tendons.”

Leavitt crowned Miss Pahrump

After an arduous competition between 11 young women, professional judges from Las Vegas crowned Brittany Leavitt Miss Pahrump 2013 to a sold-out house on Saturday evening.

Richards bid for job divides board

Pahrump town board members took the first step in finding a suitable replacement for Town Manager Bill Kohbarger when he vacates his position next month.

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