Las Vegas police responded to an east valley shooting Thursday night that happened on Bonanza Road near Nellis Boulevard.
Courts
The Las Vegas Justice Court will not accept restitution on behalf of the Clark County district attorney’s office for criminal cases starting Friday, the county reported.
The director of the Nevada Department of Health And Human Services on Thursday said his department takes responsibility for the institutional abuse allegations of juvenile inmates at the Nevada Youth Training Center in Elko. Romaine Gilliland spoke during a hearing on the issue held by Clark County Family Court Judge William Voy.
The frail, quiet woman who appeared in a Las Vegas courtroom Thursday was a far cry from the raging killer police described in this week’s deadly home invasions. Natasha Galenn Jackson faces eight felony charges for her alleged role in Tuesday’s random attacks that left a man dead and a woman in critical condition.
A Las Vegas man who crashed into an Egg & I restaurant last year and injured 10 people was sentenced Thursday to 6 to 20 years in prison.
In one case involving battery charges, Las Vegas Justice of the Peace William Kephart ordered Carmitchel back to court next week “by any means necessary.”
Henderson police on Thursday released the names of the officers involved in an early Tuesday morning shooting that left one dead, police said.
With some of the world’s top poker players in the courtroom, a federal magistrate Thursday ordered the release on bail of three key defendants arrested in an alleged World Cup betting scheme.
A man was shot dead Wednesday night in the central valley, Las Vegas police said.
Las Vegas police on Thursday released the names of the officers involved in the early Tuesday morning home invasions that left two dead and two seriously wounded.
Las Vegas police said they found a man’s body under construction equipment in Laughlin on Thursday morning.
The man who was killed by Henderson police on Tuesday was identified by the Clark County coroner’s office on Monday as Jesse Vigil, 51.
Police say they were professional burglars who quickly became cold-blooded killers. Cody David Winters, 27, also known as “Havoc,” and Natasha Galenn Jackson, 35, terrorized a southeast Las Vegas neighborhood Tuesday, police said, choosing their victims at random in a frantic attempt to escape capture.
A judge has found a 73-year-old Sparks man competent to stand trial for murder in the fatal shooting of an unarmed trespasser the former schoolteacher insists was justified under Nevada’s “stand your ground” law.
Nevada officials on Wednesday said reports of institutional abuse at the Nevada Youth Training Center in Elko were investigated after they were first reported in December, but it was determined that each use of “mechanical restraints” was necessary for the situation.
