The Nevada Day Board of Administrators introduced Tuesday the Grand Marshal for the 2022 “Carnivál on the Comstock” Nevada Day Parade. The primary feminine justice on the Nevada Supreme Courtroom, Miriam Shearing, will function the Grand Marshal for the 2022 parade.
“We’re thrilled Miriam Shearing agreed to be our Grand Marshal,” acknowledged Brooke Santina, Nevada Day Government Director. “Ms. Shearing served 36 years on the bench, bettering the lives of Nevadans by means of our justice system. She’s filled with Nevada’s trailblazing spirit. We’re so proud to honor her. She’s an ideal match.”
Shearing moved to Nevada in 1969 and have become a justice of the peace in Clark County. In 1983, she turned the primary lady District Courtroom Decide and in 1992 was elected to the Nevada Supreme Courtroom, later to turn out to be Chief Justice, all feminine firsts.
Modest and an introvert, Shearing has stated, “Most of us who’ve damaged boundaries did not got down to pave the way in which for different ladies, we simply wished to do what we wished to do.”
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However trailblaze, she did. Recognized for being even-handed and truthful, her choices performed to neither political celebration however thought-about “how will this choice play out in the true world” and in circumstances involving kids, “what is really within the baby’s finest curiosity.”
She was a effectively revered decide and lawyer, and after retiring, nonetheless actively labored behind the scenes to raised the authorized system in Nevada.
Extra about Miriam Shearing might be featured within the Nevada Day Parade program distributed in the course of the parade and might be picked up from the announcers stands. To get yours early cease by the Nevada Day Retailer in October.
Nevada Day, Inc. is a not for revenue 501c3 which exists to make sure that the celebration of our statehood continues every year with a parade happening the final week of October within the capital, Carson Metropolis, Nevada. See www.nevadaday.com for extra info.
A judge in Las Vegas sentenced a Texas man to 100 years in prison for his role in a two-state shooting rampage on Thanksgiving 2020 that included the killing of a man in Nevada and a shootout with authorities in Arizona.
An undated booking photo of Christopher McDonnell, 28. Photograph: AP
Christopher McDonnell, 32, pleaded guilty in October to more than 20 felonies including murder, attempted murder, murder conspiracy, weapon charges and being a felon illegally in possession of a firearm.
Clark county district judge Tierra Jones sentenced him on Friday to a minimum of 100 years in prison, KLAS-TV reported. If he’s still alive, he would be eligible for parole in 2120 with credit for time served.
McDonnell of Tyler, Texas, his brother Shawn McDonnell, 34, and Shawn McDonnell’s then wife, Kayleigh Lewis, 29, originally faced dozens of charges.
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Police and prosecutors say the trio began an 11-hour rampage on 26 November 2020 that included apparently random shootings that killed Kevin Mendiola Jr, 22, at a convenience store in Henderson, near Las Vegas, and drive-by gunfire that wounded several other people.
The group then continued into Arizona, where there were additional shootings, including one involving a police officer. All three were arrested after their car rolled over.
Prosecutors said Lewis was the driver as the two brothers fired indiscriminately out of the vehicle’s windows. Shawn McDonnell and Lewis are awaiting trial.
The shooting rampage ended near the Colorado River town of Parker, Arizona, after a chase involving officers from the Arizona department of public safety, the crash of a car with a Texas license plate and the wounding of Shawn McDonnell by troopers wielding assault-style rifles, police said.
The Elko Police Department is asking for the public’s help after recovering almost $45,000 worth of stolen goods.
A search warrant was carried out last week on Dodge Avenue in South Fork, and officials found property that had been reported as stolen from multiple different businesses in the Elko area.
The stolen property included handguns.
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Police are now looking for 44-year old Charles Milburn and 36-year old Stevie Loveridge, both of South Fork, in connection to this case.
The investigation is ongoing – if you have any information as to the whereabouts of Milburn or Loveridge, please call the Elko Dispatch non-emergency line at (775) 777-7300, or Secret Witness at (775) 322-4900.
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