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Learn all about home safety for the blind

Residents can attend this free public event from the Federation of the Blind.

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1 flighted to hospital after crash

One person was flown to a Las Vegas hospital Friday evening following a two-vehicle accident at the intersection of State Route 160 and U.S. 95.

Supreme Court refuses town stay request

The Nevada Supreme Court denied an emergency stay Tuesday that was sought by the Town of Pahrump in its bid to place open town board seats on the November ballot.

Schinhofen criticizes opposition to Yucca

CARSON CITY — Bob Halstead, director of the state office of nuclear projects, told the Legislative Committee on High-Level Radioactive Waste Friday the Nuclear Regulatory Commission won’t have money to complete studies on Yucca Mountain. His comments drew a rebuke from Nye County Commissioner Dan Schinhofen.

Sign up to tee off for cancer, deadline is tomorrow

The American Cancer Society’s Relay for Life is set for May, but ahead of the event, meetings are held, teams of volunteers put together and work begins to raise money for the event.

DA’s Report

• Cortney Ann Stalker was charged on Feb. 5 with unlawful use of a controlled substance, driving under the influence of a controlled substance, possession of drug paraphernalia, unlawfully allowing child to be present during commission of certain situations which involve controlled substances, child abuse and neglect, possession of a controlled substance.

Crime Corner

COPS: PVHS teacher arrested for DUI

Pahrump planning proposal pummeled

Commissioner Butch Borasky Tuesday withdrew a bill to reduce the size of the Pahrump Planning District 38 percent in the north and northwest areas of Pahrump Valley, a proposal planners said could cost the county as much as $100,000.

Rapist on the run wrecks bike, goes to jail

A wanted man listed as a “predatory sex offender” by the Oregon division of parole and probation was arrested in Pahrump Sunday for allegedly failing to register as a sex offender with local police after he crashed his motorcycle on Mountain Falls Boulevard.

Pahrump on the Serengeti?

Arlene Gawne of the Spring Mountain Alliance, a project of America’s Wild Horse Advocates, thinks the wild horse population in the mountain range could be marketed as an attraction for tourists on safari, like the Serengeti Plains in Africa.

PERS info made public

Retired Nye County officials are drawing lucrative pensions in their twilight years, some as high as $7,000 per month, according to information posted on the website Transparency Nevada.

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