Records show an arrest warrant was issued a week after a teen escaped from a juvenile facility — a disclosure that sheds some light on concerns that he might have slipped through the cracks before his arrest in a Southern Nevada drunken driving crash that killed five family members.
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One of the state’s leading insurers, Health Plan of Nevada, “acted in bad faith regarding its obligation to provide insurance coverage” to patients, a Clark County jury found Thursday.
It took one hour of Sheldon Adelson’s testimony Thursday for the Las Vegas Sands Corp. chairman and CEO to provoke opposing attorneys to demand a mistrial.
Jason Jones was sentenced Thursday to 15 years to life in prison for the June murder of Jaime Corona. The neighbors had a running argument over property Corona stole from Jones in a burglary, police said.
Two women have been charged in a botched burglary last month in which a man was shot.
Bail was set Thursday at $500,000 for an 18-year-old accused of plowing a speeding vehicle into a crowded Las Vegas restaurant while under the influence of prescription drugs.
In an unusual act of compassion, a prosecutor Thursday asked a judge to sentence the boyfriend of the late construction defects attorney Nancy Quon to probation for his role in a failed suicide scheme involving the attorney.
A teenager facing drunken driving charges in a Southern Nevada crash that killed five members of a California family had escaped from a juvenile facility, and it’s unclear whether anyone ever went looking for him, an Orange County supervisor said Thursday.
The federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives is offering a $5,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of those responsible for the fire that destroyed the Key Largo hotel-casino March 28.