A felon accused of shooting a Chinatown waiter multiple times was released from jail six days before the crime with the help of a national nonprofit.
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A 24-year-old man arrested in connection with a fatal shooting at a Las Vegas restaurant was sentenced Wednesday on a weapons charge.
Antonio Bridges, 37, was sentenced Friday to serve 11 to 31 years in state prison for the beating death of 1-year-old Mark Phillips Jr. in 2018.
The state’s top doctor said he could not give an opinion on the effectiveness of a never-been-tested combination of drugs intended to execute Zane Floyd.
An evidentiary hearing on Nevada’s proposed plan to execute death row inmate Zane Floyd continued Tuesday with testimony from a pharmaceutical expert.
Sheri Aoyagi was killed in 2018 so the 17-year-old who robbed her home would “leave no witnesses behind,” District Judge Tierra Jones said Monday.
A woman charged in connection with her young son’s disappearance and presumed death more than 35 years ago will serve less than a year in prison.
A 34-year-old convicted of first-degree murder for his part in a deadly 2016 shooting in Las Vegas was sentenced Tuesday to 32 years to life in prison.
A Las Vegas man was sentenced on Friday to eight to 20 years in prison for the fatal beating of a woman in July.
A man who was injured jumping from a window to escape the deadly Alpine Motel Apartments fire in 2019 has filed a lawsuit against the building’s former owner.
A judge denied bail on Tuesday for a 26-year-old man accused of fatally stabbing a homeless man in what officials said was an unprovoked attack.
A woman accused of fatally stabbing a man last year in a drainage tunnel was ordered held without bail Wednesday after she waived her right to a preliminary hearing.
Murder weapons are in this vault, and the belongings of the murdered, too. The bottle of sangria found at the scene of a sexual assault is safely stored near the swingset that crushed a boy’s skull, leading to a $20 million civil judgment.
Day two of a three-day evidentiary hearing regarding Nevada’s plan to execute death row inmate Zane Floyd began Wednesday morning in federal court.
“No human being should be exposed to the terror and agony of not being able to breathe,” said Dr. Mark Heath, an anesthesiologist.