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The public information below was provided by the Nye County District Attorney’s office.

The National Nuclear Security Administration on Wednesday rescinded a $5 billion, 10-year contract it awarded last week to a Lockheed Martin subsidiary to manage and operate the Nevada National Security Site because the company did not tell the agency it had sold the unit.

Woman arrested on assault with a deadly weapon charges

The weather in the Pahrump Valley will be fairly uneventful for the holiday weekend and beyond.

The new Beatty Family Dollar store held its grand opening ribbon cutting ceremony early Thursday morning, Sept. 1. Miss Beatty and Junior Miss Beatty did the honors, flanked by the Beatty Cowboys and Floozies. The store had actually been in operation for almost a week.

Without much discussion, the Nevada Public Utilities Commission on Wednesday approved Utilities, Inc. of Central Nevada’s request for expansion of its water service territory at the Spring Mountain Motorsports Ranch in Pahrump.

A guilty plea agreement was reached between prosecutors and the defense in the case of a Pahrump woman shooting a neighbor’s dog to death.

Wednesday will be sunny, with a high near 102 degrees in the Pahrump Valley. Winds will blow out of the East-southeast 8 to 15 mph becoming south-southwest in the afternoon. Winds could gust as high as 21 mph, according to the National Weather Service.

The second heat-related death of the summer occurred over the weekend at Death Valley National Park.

For the first time in five months, the county’s unemployment rate dropped, falling to 8.3 percent in July, according to the Nevada Department of Employment, Training and Rehabilitation.