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  • Prof to head Oklahoma state agency

    Las Vegas resident Michael O’Brien has been selected as the next director of the Oklahoma Department of Rehabilitation Services.

    O’Brien is currently a Highlands University professor and rehabilitation services consultant, who was employed from 1997 to 2001 as administrator of the Oklahoma agency’s Vocational Rehabilitation division.

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  • Official: Put more women on panels

    Mayor Tony Marquez has already started making appointments to city advisory committees, but he’s getting some advice from a City Council member on how to make the panels more diverse.

    At last week’s council meeting, Councilwoman Diane Moore said she would like to see more women and youths appointed to committees.

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  • McAllister Lake remains closed

    The state Game and Fish Department has closed McAllister Lake for fishing until further notice.

    Clint Henson, a Game and Fish spokesman, said his agency is unable to stock the lake because of golden algae and water conditions. The closure will last, Henson said, “until Mother Nature decides to give us more water.”

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  • Residents pushing for stop signs at 7th, Columbia

    Residents on Seventh Street got most of what they wanted last year when they requested stop signs on their street. But they’re still pushing for some more at another intersection.

    Last September, the city posted stop signs on the two-lane portion of Seventh at the intersections of Friedman, Washington and Columbia, but a few weeks later, they took down the signs at Columbia.

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  • Squads show spirit at games

    The North-South All Star Games brought players from all over the state to compete in girls and boys basketball on Friday and football on Saturday. Las Vegas Cheer squads from West Las Vegas and Robertson High Schools get a chance to hone their skills for the upcoming year as they root for the All-Stars.

    Cardinal and Don cheerleaders switch sides at the half, the team that was cheering for the North team will then cheer for the South and vice versa.

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  • Bracelets track every movement

    Wherever you go, they know where you are — your exact location.

    If you get in trouble, the state may require that you wear an ankle bracelet. It’s not the fashionable kind; it’s the one with a global positioning system that tracks and records your every move.

    During a recent court hearing, one young man couldn’t dispute the fact that he had burglarized three separate homes while wearing the ankle bracelet. The prosecution was able to tell the judge the time, the exact location and every move the 16-year-old made while committing the crimes.

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  • City government to pay much more to chamber

    The Chamber of Commerce is getting a big increase in money from the city.

    The City Council this week approved a contract for the next fiscal year that amounts to $192,000, which is up from last year’s $105,000.

    Some of that increase is because of the transfer of an events coordinator position from the city government to the chamber, amounting to $35,000. The remaining increase of more than $50,000 in the chamber’s budget is part of what its leaders call an ambitious effort to market Las Vegas regionally.

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  • Local court has 1,532 warrants

    Las Vegas’ Municipal Court has 1,532 outstanding warrants — and little is being done to reduce that number because of a lack of manpower, officials say.

    “This has become a monster,” Municipal Judge Eddie Trujillo said. “The warrants haven’t been reduced at all. I signed 50 more today.”

    The pile of warrants may sound like a big number to many, but it’s not entirely unusual.

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  • Suspect's transcript: 'I did it. I did it'

    One of the women accused of killing an 83-year-old man last year admits on tape that she was to blame, saying she wanted to take the man’s money to buy drugs, according to a transcript.

    Tom Clayton, a prosecutor with the district attorney’s office, states in a pleading before the court that he may present a transcript at trial in which Jessica Livingston, 24, takes responsibility for the injuries that led to the death of Jose Apodaca in June 2007.

    Livingston’s trial is set for next month.

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  • Ex-cop pleads no contest in attack

    A former Las Vegas police officer has pleaded no contest to a charge that he attacked another man at a bar during a Christmas party.

    Steven Gutierrez, 25, who left the police force months ago, entered a plea agreement to a misdemeanor charge of aggravated battery, according to court records. The charge was reduced from aggravated battery whereby death or great bodily harm could be inflicted.

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