From the Moapa Zoo to O.J. Simpson to the Bunkhouse Saloon, here’s a look back at some of the people and places we wrote about this year.
Courts
Actor and comedian Bill Cosby on Monday sued seven women who had accused him of defaming them, saying they lied when they accused him of sexual assault.
A television show about the Clark County District Attorney’s Office has been picked up by a cable network, and is expected to start filming this fall at the Regional Justice Center.
Ivan Lewis Greening, the singer of heavy metal band Five Finger Death Punch, was arrested in April at a Las Vegas hotel on charges of domestic battery by strangulation, according to Las Vegas police.
Mötley Crüe frontman Vince Neil has regained control of his Facebook account, his lawyer said.
Comedian Bill Cosby filed court papers on Tuesday calling for sanctions against a woman accusing him of sexual assault, saying she breached a confidentiality agreement and legal protocol in the public release of his full deposition from a 10-year-old civil case.
Blues legend B.B. King’s longtime manager will continue as administrator of his estate over the objection of some relatives, Clark County District Judge Gloria Sturman ruled Thursday.
LaVerne Toney, who worked for King for more than 40 years, denies that she prevented Karen Williams and Patty King from visiting their father, as they have alleged in a lawsuit seeking to bar her from administrating King’s estate.
The widow and personal assistant of Las Vegas entertainer Steve Rossi filed a wrongful death lawsuit Monday against the doctor who treated him during the last four years of his life.
New York rapper Lionel Pickens, who goes by the name “Chinx”, was shot and killed on Sunday while driving through the city’s borough of Queens, police said.
Hip-hop artist Chris Brown is a suspect in beating that Las Vegas police say happened early Monday during a pickup basketball game at the Palms.
B.B. King’s stolen guitar ended up in a Las Vegas pawn shop, then the hands of an honest buyer. Now, the man who bought the guitar and gave it back to King says he’s had something stolen from him: the story.
Vince Neil, lead singer of the rock band Mötley Crüe, has gone to court to force an Oregon woman to relinquish control of his social media accounts.
Two women who worked with Holly Madison at 1923 Bourbon and Burlesque have joined the reality TV star and Las Vegas showgirl’s lawsuit alleging the women were secretly recorded last year in a backstage dressing room.
Reality TV star and Las Vegas showgirl Holly Madison claims in lawsuit filed Monday that managers at Mandalay Bay’s 1923 Bourbon and Burlesque watched secret, intimate recordings of her and other women in their dressing room.