A change in Nevada law has allowed the Las Vegas Justice Court to establish it’s own mental health court, replicating an existing program in District Court.
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Four teens arrested in connection with the fatal beating of a Rancho High student have been formally charged with second-degree murder. Also, about 100 people remembered the teen during a vigil.
Rancho High School history teacher and State Assemblyman Reuben D’Silva, D-Las Vegas, said fights happen frequently in the area surrounding the school.
A graduation ceremony celebrated 22 people who completed a diversion program for those who need help with mental health or substance abuse.
Lawyers for the late Ashley Green accuse Amusement Pine LLC and Westland Real Estate Group, both of Long Beach, California, with wrongful death and negligence in the woman’s killing.
The former nurse, who served during World War II, says she was injured during a paratransit ride after warning the driver that her wheelchair wasn’t secure.
David Boruchowitz allegedly turned off his body camera while speaking with a suicidal man who eventually killed himself.
Telles, who is accused of killing Review-Journal reporter Jeff German, said Thursday that he was under surveillance in a bribery investigation before he was arrested on a murder charge.
Charles Dowling is accused of stalking and intimidating a public official, and his case was moved from Las Vegas to Henderson Justice Court after multiple judges recused themselves.
Anthony Chiaramonti, 40, was killed along with three others in a crash above North Las Vegas Airport in July.
Prosecutors have dropped charges against a man who spent decades in prison after he was convicted of acting as a getaway driver in a bank robbery that ended in a FBI agent’s death.
A woman suffering from “locked-in syndrome” was awarded $47 million by a jury this week, although her lawyer said a Nevada law will severely limit the amount of money she will receive.
Clyde Harris, 21, who allegedly ran a red light causing a crash that killed 36-year-old Marie Leatham-Davis in 2021, was arrested this month.
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