Vigilance paid off for a courthouse marshal manning a metal detector two weeks ago at the Regional Justice Center. The marshal, Jason Dean, arrested a former Las Vegas cabdriver with a violent past for allegedly carrying a loaded unregistered handgun in his backpack while going through the scanner Jan. 29. The district attorney’s office later filed a one-count felony ...

Mere hours before Barack Obama is sworn in as president with a pledge to end the grip of special interests on government, a group of lobbyists will be feting Rep. John Conyers, a powerful Democratic committee chairman, at a $1,000-a-head reception. Lobbyists at the influential firm ...