Wed Afternoon Roundup

The Nevada doctor convicted of abducting his estranged wife is asking to be released from prisong due physical incapacity from Multiple Sclerosis. (Nevada Appeal)

District Judge David Barker today dropped all charges against a Las Vegas police lieutenant who was accused of theft and burglary. (Review-Journal)

The Nevada State Prison in Carson City will close. (Review-Journal)

The Las Vegas City Council has denied Crazy Horse Too's liquor license application. (Review-Journal)

Justice Department lawyer Gregory Addington told a U.S. District Judge Lloyd George that seasonal fluctuations have further reduced water flows in a century-old canal that supplies parched farmlands east of Reno and urged the judge not to block the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation from increasing flows again this fall and winter through Fernley, where earthen walls of the Truckee Canal collapsed in January and flooded nearly 600 homes. (KESQ)

Wed Roundup

Dr. "Needles" Desai's attorneys are requesting that the civil suit brought by the [alleged] victims of Endoscopy Center, who are now permanently afflicted with Hep-C, be delayed until the end of any criminal case. Plaintiffs' attorneys objecting, stressing that no criminal case has been opened--prosecution is just being threatened. (Review-Journal)

18-25 yrs olds in Vegas who carry a gun better watch out because they're being targeted by a federal-state task force. (Review-Journal)

The Nevada Supreme Court will hear a constitutional challenge to a deadline set by the Legislature for signature gatherers filed by property tax cap proponent Sharron Angle. (Review-Journal)

Nevada death row inmate William Castillo, who last year came within 90 minutes of his wish to be executed for a 1995 Las Vegas murder, has changed his mind and has been given a stay by U.S. District Judge Robert Jones while Castillo appeals his case in federal court. (Review-Journal)

The Fernley flood hearings continue in Reno before U.S. District Judge Lloyd George and yesterday evidence showed the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation's risk assessment team recommended water flows at less than half the level currently channeled through the irrigation canal. (Review-Journal)

Congratulations to Las Vegas lawyers Aaron D. Lovaas and Kristan E. Lehtinen on opening the new business litigation law firm of Lovaas & Lehtinen, P.C. as of June 1, 2008. (PR Web)

And in political news, the state's highest government attorney, Nevada Attorney General Catherine Cortez Masto, endorsed Senator Barak Obama to be the Democratic nominee for President. (Review-Journal)

Arson is suspected in the North Las Vegas home fires. (Las Vegas Now)

Nevada Attorney General Cortez Masto filed a challenge to the Federal government's plan to build a nuclear waste dump at Yucca Mountain. (Las Vegas Now)