Scotty Nguyen has won nearly $2 million at the World Series of Poker in Las Vegas, topping a field of 148 players and emerging from a final table of eight after a marathon session.

Nguyen beat out 23-year-old Michael DeMichele early Monday in H.O.R.S.E., a rotating-game tournament that cost $50,000 to enter. The various games and limited betting structure reward all around play and is said to truly reward the best players over the long haul.

Nguyen won the final hand at Hold 'em, pushing DeMichele all in with an ace and a 10. DeMichele called with an ace and a three, and Nguyen's 10 gave him the win when both players paired their aces. The win gives the poker pro from Henderson, Nev., his fifth World Series of Poker gold bracelet. He won the series' main event in 1998, winning $1 million.

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After 25 years of serving the City of Henderson, Police Chief Richard Perkins is retiring. Chief Perkins joined the Henderson Police Department in 1984.

He was named Chief in 2006. Perkins says he wants to pursue opportunities in the private sector.

His last day will be September 5, 2008.

Henderson police are holding a man they believe touched young girls at movie theaters here in the valley.

Jon Jacobs, 30, is being held on $95,000 bail for annoying a minor and lewdness with a minor under 14.

Police say Jacobs would go to movies in Las Vegas and Henderson, sit next to young girls and touch them during the movie.

He's under arrest for the assaults of a 14 and 12-year-old.

But police say there may be more victims.

A Henderson man has been arrested for trying to abduct a 16-year-old girl.

Henderson police say 26-year-old Sonny Haviland has been charged with one count of felony attempted kidnapping.

A 16-year-old girl told police Haviland followed her in his car while she was walking near Warm Springs and Center Street Tuesday.

The girl told police Haviland got out of the car, said he wanted to give her a ride home and then grabbed her.

She says she ran home — and she and her mom were able to get Haviland's license plate information.

An accident involving the driver of a truck running into a fire hydrant caused quite a commotion in one Henderson neighborhood.

The accident happened in the late afternoon on Monday in Sun City Anthem. According to eyewitnesses, a white truck hit a large white barrel and then a fire hydrant causing the water to shoot more than 100 feet into the air.

Authorities say a Honolulu man has been indicted in connection with a meth ring that operated out of Nevada.

Donald Dempsey is the latest of nearly two dozen people, including several Las Vegans, who have been indicted on charges of drug trafficking and money laundering.

The group apparently brought the meth to houses in Las Vegas and Henderson where it was packed then shipped to Hawaii to be sold.

The trial for two of the Nevada suspects – Benjamin Acuna and Anabel Valenzuela — is scheduled for August.