A Las Vegas man should be executed for shooting and killing 15-year-old Alexus Postorino inside her home, a jury decided Thursday.
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A 62-year-old man was indicted in the death of his mother, prosecutors said Thursday, just two months after a Las Vegas judge threw out the case.
Testimony wrapped up Tuesday afternoon in the death penalty trial of a 41-year-old Las Vegas man accused of killing a 15-year-old girl and injuring another man during a shooting and drug-related robbery.
A Clark County District Court judge ruled Friday that Erich Nowsch’s guilty plea will stand.
A notice of intent to seek the death penalty against Alonso Perez, 25, who also escaped North Las Vegas police custody for several days in September, was filed Friday.
Henderson police conducted a raid Wednesday in the criminal investigation into the 2015 death of attorney Susan Winters.
A Las Vegas man was ordered to serve 28 years to life in prison for fatally stabbing his 40-year-old ex-wife in front of two of their children.
Talking to police moments after learning his 15-year-old daughter Alexus was fatally shot, William Postorino didn’t want to believe that a man he had considered a friend for more than 30 years could be the killer.
Nevada death row inmate Scott Dozier, convicted in two killings, recently told a judge that he wants to die, but state prison officials can’t find a way to execute him.
The Nevada Supreme Court, in a unanimous decision, orders an evidentiary hearing on several claims raised by Lobato, twice convicted of slaying, mutilating Duran Bailey in July 2001.
A 25-year-old man was sentenced Monday to life in prison without the possibility of parole for raping and murdering a woman behind a Las Vegas strip mall.
Prosecutors have dismissed a murder charge against a Las Vegas man who was accused in the fatal shooting of a 28-year-old woman in the central valley last month.
A 24-year-old man was indicted this week in a fatal shooting just east of the Strip.
A Las Vegas judge sentenced David Frostick on Wednesday to between 28 years and life in prison for the 2009 stabbing death of Robin Jenkins.
A man accused of tying up and fatally abusing a 7-year-old boy made his first court appearance Wednesday morning.