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• Panel Examining Recession's Causes Meets in Las Vegas

  A federal commission is taking testimony in Las Vegas as part of its national effort to examine causes for the financial meltdown that led to the Great Recession.

• Feds, police raid Vegas medical marijuana clinics

  Authorities say police and federal agents in Nevada are serving search warrants at several locations in an investigation of medical marijuana clinics in and around Las Vegas.

• Rural Nevada DA arrested again, faces DUI charge

  A rural Nevada district attorney is in trouble again after an overnight arrest on a drunken driving charge.

• Republican gambling executives endorse Harry Reid

  Three Las Vegas Strip casino executives are among a group of Republicans backing Senate Democratic Majority Leader Harry Reid in his bid for a fifth term.

• Man charged with murder after fatal fight under bridge

  A man has been arrested in connection with a fight under a Las Vegas bridge last week that killed 42-year-old Colby Osborne, Metro Police said.

• Annual walk raises suicide awareness

  Aryana Petrosky talks about the Suicide Prevention Network memory walk. Shannon Litz/The R-C by Sheila Gardner sgardner@recordcourier.com A group of Douglas County teenagers, committed to suicide prevention and "living out loud," will be front and center Saturday for the annual walk in memory of friends and family members lost to suicide.

• Morning thunderstorms roll through Las Vegas area

  Keep your umbrella handy today. Moisture moving in from the southeast brought scattered thunderstorms to the Las Vegas Valley this morning and more could be coming this afternoon, according to the National Weather Service.

• Las Vegas sees First Rain Since April

  The National Weather Service says a storm that dropped varying amounts of rain in and around Las Vegas broke a 137-day dry spell.

• Man faces felony charges in Vegas casino bomb hoax

  Police say a 61-year-old man is facing felony terroristic threat, extortion and burglary charges stemming from a weekend bomb hoax at a Las Vegas neighborhood casino.

• Man accused of setting his apartment on fire arrested

  North Las Vegas fire officials said police arrested a man who allegedly set his apartment on fire this morning and then tried to flee.