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Jury selection ends 1st day for ex-politician accused of killing Las Vegas investigative reporter
By KEN RITTER - Associated Press
Mon,08/12/24-12:02AM , 83 Reads
LAS VEGAS (AP) — The trial of a Las Vegas-area politician accused of killing an investigative reporter who wrote articles critical of him began Monday, after the judge denied the defendant's last request to dismiss the case and jury selection began.
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Duane "Keffe D" Davis, left, who is accused of orchestrating the 1996 slaying of hip-hop icon Tupac Shakur, listens to his attorney Carl Arnold during a hearing to reconsider his bond at the Regional Justice Center, on Tuesday, July. 23, 2024, in Las Vegas. (Bizuayehu Tesfaye/Las Vegas Review-Journal via AP)

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Sparks fly, Nevada judge sets deadline in bail bid for man charged in Tupac Shakur killing
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Mon,07/22/24-11:36PM , 93 Reads
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Sparks flew in court Tuesday as a Nevada judge rebuked a defense attorney and an ailing former Los Angeles-area gang leader lashed out against prosecutors during his renewed effort to be freed from jail to house arrest ahead of his trial in the 1996 killing of hip-hop legend Tupac Shakur.
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Duane “Keffe D” Davis, who is accused of orchestrating the 1996 slaying of hip-hop icon Tupac Shakur, is led into the courtroom during a status hearing at the Regional Justice Center, on Tuesday, April 23, 2024, in Las Vegas. (Bizuayehu Tesfaye/Las Vegas Review-Journal via AP)

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Ex-gang leader's account of Tupac Shakur killing is fiction, defense lawyer in Vegas says
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Tue,04/23/24-2:16PM , 154 Reads
LAS VEGAS (AP) — The defense attorney representing a former Los Angeles-area gang leader accused of killing hip-hop music icon Tupac Shakur in 1996 in Las Vegas said Tuesday his client's accounts of the killing are fiction and prosecutors lack key evidence to obtain a murder conviction.
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AP correspondent Haya Panjwani reports on the development of a high speed rail between two major West coast cities.

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Rail spikes hammered, bullet train being built from Sin City to the City of Angels
By KEN RITTER - Associated Press
Sun,04/21/24-11:17PM , 211 Reads
LAS VEGAS (AP) — A $12 billion passenger bullet train linking Las Vegas and the Los Angeles area was dubbed the first true high-speed rail line in the nation on Monday, with the private company building it predicting millions of ticket-buyers will be boarding trains by 2028.
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