Prosecutors are seeking the death penalty for Gregory Hover, 41, who killed 2 people in 2010, but defense lawyers plan to argue for a life sentence without the possibility of parole.
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Harvey Whittemore, the former high-powered lobbyist who became a fixture in Nevada politics, was convicted Wednesday of unlawfully funneling more than $133,000 in campaign contributions to U.S. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid.
A man was sentenced in federal court Wednesday for making false statements to a credit union to obtain a $7.5 million commercial real estate loan, according to the U.S. attorney’s office.
The man who was arrested on unrelated charges during an investigation into critical injuries sustained by a 1-year-old boy who later died has been identified by Las Vegas police.
A 1-year-old boy who was taken to the hospital last week with severe head injuries has died, according to Las Vegas police.
A modern-day abolitionist movement that includes Las Vegas law enforcement officials, the state attorney general’s office, legislators and grass-roots activists wants to reclassify the pimps who dominate the world’s oldest profession as modern-day slave traders.
Police are looking for a man they believe was involved in four bank robberies from April 5 to May 28 in south Las Vegas.
North Las Vegas police are searching for a suspect in a violent assault. A 46-year-old man was playing slot machines at a convenience store at about 1:30 p.m. May 18 when another man entered the store and repeatedly punched the man in the head. The victim suffered serious head injuries in the attack.
The brother of an ATM robbery suspect was arrested by North Las Vegas police Tuesday night.
Dr. Dipak Desai, 63, and co-defendant, nurse anesthetist Ronald Lakeman, 65, entered their fourth week on trial Tuesday. They each face more than two dozen charges — including second-degree murder, criminal neglect of patients, theft and insurance fraud – in relation to a 2007 hepatitis C outbreak.