A delegation of Turkish judges and prosecutors touring Las Vegas on Friday delved into matters of Internet freedom, an issue that recently thrust Turkey’s leadership into international headlines.
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An FBI informant testified Friday that he once fled to Mexico, leaving his family including a newborn daughter behind, out of fear for his safety after he helped authorities break up a major theft ring in the Las Vegas Valley.
Two Las Vegas Valley schools were locked down after the Nevada Highway Patrol reported a suspicious bag left on state Route 159 near the Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area on Friday afternoon.
The officers involved in Tuesday’s officer-involved shooting in the east valley have been identified by Las Vegas police.
A 19-year-old California man was indicted by a grand jury on attempted murder charges for a stabbing on a walkway between two Strip casinos, Clark County prosecutors said Friday.
A 70-year-old inmate died at the regional medical facility at the Northern Nevada Correctional Center in Carson City on Thursday, according to the The Nevada Department of Corrections.
Police are asking for the public’s help in finding a man who they say robbed a jewelry store at gunpoint.
A man was found dead with a gunshot wound on Owens Avenue, near Eastern Avenue, Thursday night, Las Vegas police said.
Police have located a Henderson boy reported missing Wednesday night. He was unharmed.
Family Court Judge Steven Jones has served his three-month suspension without pay over his mishandling of a romantic relationship with the late former prosecutor Lisa Willardson. The judge is again eligible to receive his $200,000 salary.
Accused pet store arsonist Gloria Lee is free on $340,000 bond. Lee, who faces arson and insurance fraud charges for the January blaze at the Prince and Princess Pet Boutique, bonded out of the Clark County Detention Center last month, court records show.
A panel of the Nevada Supreme Court has upheld a $7.5 million defamation judgment against soft-porn king Joe Francis on behalf of casino developer Steve Wynn.
Nevada Assemblywoman Michele Fiore on Thursday said she would use one of her bill drafts in the next legislative session to rework the state’s controversial sex offender law that was adopted to comply with a federal act.
Henderson police Capt. Bobby Long, a 21-year-veteran of the department, had a meltdown last week — apparently threatening bankers — after the off-duty officer was forced to wait a few minutes to cash a check at the U.S. Bank inside Vons at 45 E. Horizon Ridge Parkway, near Horizon Drive.
Yordani Corona Del Toro, 23, a felon who defense lawyers called a “gang banger” and habitual criminal, is the government’s star witness in the theft trial of the three men unfolding in the courtroom of U.S. District Judge Jennifer Dorsey. Del Toro laid out details Thursday of an alleged plan to kidnap and rob a delivery van driver of pharmaceutical drugs in 2013.
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