Giovanni Ruiz had faced the death penalty and was set to go to trial later this month in the 2019 killing of 19-year-old Paula Davis.
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A Las Vegas homeowner filed a new appeal of a $180,000 fine for allegedly renting his home through Airbnb, citing violations of his constitutional rights.
Lawyers for the father of the late Tony Hsieh claim that a business associate plied his son with alcohol while pressuring him on social media to buy the former Zappos headquarters for $30 million more than it was worth.
The injured hockey player, wife seek protection under Chapter 7 bankruptcy from creditors.
A gunman and his getaway driver pleaded guilty Friday in the fatal shooting of 44-year-old mother Tammy Meyers.
Las Vegas police Monday outlined a handful of missteps, including miscommunication from the U.S. Marshals Office, that led up to the moment two Metro officers shot and killed an unarmed fugitive holding a cell phone in front of a west valley home on New Year’s Eve.
A judge sentenced Ammar Harris to death Monday for killing three people and injuring another on the Strip. Harris was also sentenced to 16 to 40 years in prison on related charges.
Ammar Harris was sentenced to death Wednesday for each of the three people he killed on the Las Vegas Strip.
Jerad and Amanda Miller were defiant until the very end. Cornered after slaying three people and expecting their own deaths, the couple kept up the police-hating rhetoric investigators would later find immortalized in a self-glorifying shrine.
A second civil rights lawsuit has been filed by survivors of an inmate who died after a 2013 struggle with officers at the Clark County Detention Center.
A Las Vegas police officer shot before daylight Friday came through surgery fine, Sheriff Joseph Lombardo said, but one man’s wound leaves a mark on the whole department.
One of three adults charged with videotaping sexual attacks on several children in Las Vegas was sentenced Thursday to life in prison.
On three separate days, the 55-year-old man was seen on a surveillance camera molesting and assaulting “very small” children on the back of a bus, Las Vegas police said.
Las Vegas police said a suicidal man is responsible for killing three people before shooting himself Tuesday night.
A former police officer has been found guilty of two misdemeanor counts of careless driving in a New Mexico wreck that killed a 21-year-old Nevada woman.
