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WHEAT RIDGE, Colo. (AP) — Colorado authorities have arrested a man wanted on a murder charge in Illinois who escaped while being transported from Las Vegas. Police say 37-year-old Turhan Robinson escaped from a private inmate-transport service at a truck stop in the Denver suburb of Wheat Ridge early yesterday. Authorities announced his capture yesterday afternoon. Jim Lorentz, a Wheat Ridge police division chief, says Robinson had been arrested in Las Vegas.
LAS VEGAS (AP) — A man is dead and three women are wounded after a shooting involving at least two assailants who police say knocked on the door of an eastside Las Vegas town house. Las Vegas police Lt. Ray Steiber says investigators are looking for the gunmen after the shooting about 11 a.m. yesterday. He says the men asked for a person who wasn't there before opening fire. The women who were in the town house when they were wounded were taken to hospitals.
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Crews have started dismantling a structurally flawed and half-finished casino tower on the Las Vegas Strip. MGM Resorts officials say they started removing scrap metal and other materials from inside the Harmon hotel tower after a judge issued an order May 5 allowing the process to move forward. A crane is expected to arrive in coming weeks to start taking the building apart. The process is expected to take a year.
LAS VEGAS (AP) — A 63-year-old Las Vegas man was acquitted of attempted murder, but convicted of battery, assault and reckless disregard for spraying gasoline on a man who annoyed him and setting it ablaze during an argument at a convenience store in October 2012. The Las Vegas Review-Journal reports that Patrick Newell appeared relieved by Thursday's verdict after his trial in Clark County District Court. Theodore Bejarano was badly burned. But defense lawyer Scott Coffee says Newell wasn't trying to kill him.
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