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LAS VEGAS (AP) — An aging ex-pro boxer was sentenced to 15 years in Nevada state prison in a 1981 case stemming from the kidnapping for ransom, rape and murder of an 18-year-old high school cheerleader. Willie Lee Shannon, now 64, said nothing during sentencing Thursday in a Las Vegas courtroom full of family members and supporters wearing yellow "Justice 4 Jamey" T-shirts to honor victim Jamey Walker.
RENO, Nev. (AP) — Police say a man with a rifle who was shot and killed by police called 911 and acted erratically near businesses off a highway exit north of Reno. Police Lt. William Rulla told the Reno Gazette-Journal it took about an hour to find the man after his call came in about 8:15 p.m. Thursday.
LAS VEGAS (AP) — A 20-year-old man who admitted shooting and killing a Las Vegas woman has pleaded guilty to assault with a weapon in a separate case alleging he held a knife to the throat of a 13-year-old boy. Erich Milton Nowsch Jr.'s plea on Thursday was the second part of a plea deal in Clark County District Court.
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Jailed Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy refused Thursday to acknowledge federal authority and declined to enter a plea to federal charges that he led an armed standoff against a round-up of cattle two years ago. A U.S. magistrate judge entered a not guilty plea on Bundy's behalf and scheduled a detention hearing March 17.
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