By ABIGAIL GOLDMAN, Las Vegas Sun

"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."

LAS VEGAS -- The inmates run this place. Not the staff. That's the reality of it.

That's the graduation speech Dahn Shaulis says he got at Nevada's prison guard academy. Manage the unmanageable, his trainers said. Learn to provoke power, to play with the "politics of the fist," to control inmates by pitting them against one another, to perfect benign neglect.

Before the live wire carrying stolen electricity disappeared into the thief's house, the line snaked past community mailboxes - putting moms, toddlers and everyone else in the neighborhood at risk of electrocution.

Cheating on his wife was not Steve's first or worst mistake. His real problem was that he had married a woman whose brother had a flair for revenge.

Steve's brother-in-law -- we'll call him Tim -- didn't squeeze apologies out of the adulterer in a boozy back-alley fight, didn't key his car, slash his tires or even help his sister hire a shark of a lawyer.

LAS VEGAS -- Nevada's Saturday morning caucuses will automatically exclude a certain portion of the state's Jews, Orthodox and Conservative believers who observe their sixth-day Sabbath by not working, or driving, or voting, for that matter.