By ABIGAIL GOLDMAN, Las Vegas Sun

LAS VEGAS - The list of people banned from Nevada casinos includes 21 names added between 1990 and 2000 -- all men, most with alleged mob connections, many with monikers: The Fixer, Moose, Dicky Boy, The Pope.

Juliette Kimoto was crowned Mrs. Nevada in 2006. Her spouse, Kyle, also took home an award: Husband of the Year.

They were a happy, church-going couple with six kids, smiling on stage, accepting their beauty pageant awards.

They were also a couple in deep trouble with the law, and falling deeper by fathoms.

During court-mandated private therapy sessions, teenage victims of domestic violence sit across from social worker Lora Watkins with cell phones in their hands -- still sending dozens of text messages to their abusers.

In 2006 travel agent Al Grand decided to focus on a new career: selling hallucinogens.
Now, from his quiet home in North Las Vegas, Nev., the 30-year-old ships little plastic bags across the country. He imports his product from Mexico, accepts credit cards and reports an $80,000 annual income, collected one gram at a time.
None of this is illegal. Not yet.

The pleasure of Stacie's company used to cost $450 an hour, but no longer. Her clients were capped at 35 and older; but today she's taking almost anyone. Sex acts once off the menu are suddenly back on -- recession specials, served with a side of shrugging compromise.

Nevada Assemblyman James Settelmeyer doesn't eat breakfast during the workweek - no time for it. And when he goes out for lunch, sometimes he orders cereal. Sometimes, he says, cereal sounds pretty good.

"Monster" and "Monk," members of the Mongols motorcycle gang, were at Chuck E. Cheese's family-friendly pizza restaurant in San Diego last year when they ran into a rival -- a member of the Hells Angels.

LAS VEGAS -- Brookey Lee West stuffed her dead mother into a garbage can and left her in a Las Vegas storage unit until the remains were discovered by someone who couldn't stand the smell. West denied she'd killed her mom, but a jury didn't buy it: She's serving life for murder.So, want to buy Brookey's fingernail clippings?

LAS VEGAS -- They called it Project Kitty Litter. Crouched outside his house, hiding in the dark of downtown Las Vegas' residential streets sometime after 9 o'clock, Tim Newbry was poised to pounce.

The serial killer is so misunderstood.Don't mistake this for sympathy. It's just a fact, or so says the FBI. The federal agency has just released a breezy little read titled "Serial Murder: Multi-Disciplinary Perspectives for Investigators."