The murder trial for a former elected official accused of killing Las Vegas Review-Journal investigative reporter Jeff German is scheduled to begin next month, but attorneys may still push back the case.
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A criminal trial for the former owner of the Alpine Motel Apartments is not scheduled to start until February 2025, court records show.
Four teens arrested in connection with the fatal beating of a Rancho High student have been formally charged with second-degree murder. Also, about 100 people remembered the teen during a vigil.
Melanie Tobiasson, a 55-year-old former justice of the peace, died by suicide Friday. She had resigned in 2021 after facing ethics charges.
Rita Reid, a deputy in the Public Administrator’s Office, said in hindsight, a text from Robert Telles was a subtle threat. “It could have been us, it could have been me. There was a lot of anger.”
A man accused of triggering false reports of an active shooter throughout the tourist corridor had been upset for being kicked out of a Strip property, police alleged in his arrest report.
After four years, a trustee looking for assets from imprisoned attorney Robert Graham has identified nearly $1 million in assets. Only contractors have received money.
A former Las Vegas police explorer must spend at least 25 years in prison for sexually assaulting an underage girl, but a judge said he may remain free while appealing his conviction.
Las Vegas defense attorney Alexis Plunkett broke down in tears early Thursday, just seconds after District Judge Michael Villani dismissed the 14-count indictment against her.
A Clark County judge ruled accused squatter Thomas Benson, who authorities say follows an anti-government ideology as a so-called “sovereign citizen,” is competent to proceed in criminal cases against him.
The woman arrested in connection with a crash that left one woman dead and sent dozens of pedestrians on the Strip to area hospitals Sunday night told police she was stressed and tired, an arrest record shows.
The man charged with sexual assault and kidnapping after police said he impregnated his 17-year-old stepdaughter and abandoned her with her toddler sister, who later died, appeared in court Thursday.
Cassandra Cassidy, 24, of Las Vegas, was gunned down in the 1300 block of Westwind Avenue, near Jones Road and Charleston Boulevard Friday night by people in a white two-door car, Las Vegas police said.
Markiece Palmer was sentenced Wednesday to life in prison without the possibility of parole in the beating death of his wife’s 7-year-old son, Roderick “RJ” Arrington.
A speeding motorcyclist trying to avoid a traffic stop Thursday morning near Flamingo Road and Rainbow Boulevard was seriously injured after he crashed, Las Vegas police said.
