A federal appeals court this week rejected a former loan officer’s efforts to blame his multimillion-dollar mortgage fraud scheme on negligent lenders.
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Former Las Vegas Township Constable John Bonaventura pleaded not guilty Tuesday to theft and wiretapping charges.
A Las Vegas judge who used the power of her office to do a favor for a friend has been fined $1,000 and publicly reprimanded for violating professional ethics codes.
A woman who accused an officer of pulling off her pants and then photographing her without consent is set to receive a $24,999 settlement from the Metropolitan Police Department.
With national media watching, jury selection started Monday in the trial of a former mixed martial arts fighter known as War Machine, accused of beating and sexually assaulting a former girlfriend.
The first trial in the case against Cliven Bundy and his supporters coincides with a new political regime. The timing has presented a paradox: Prosecutors characterize the 70-year-old rancher as an anti-government extremist while policymakers prepare to act on some of his ideas.
Six days before his 17th birthday, Ayden McKinnon was ordered to serve up to 25 years behind bars for firing two shotgun blasts at the front door of a northwest valley home.
A former opioid addict testified Friday during the federal trial of a 93-year-old doctor, his medical assistant and a local pharmacist.
A judge on Thursday afternoon found Javier Righetti, charged with killing a 15-year-old girl, mentally capable of facing the death penalty.
A former Lutheran church treasurer who swindled as much as $1.4 million from his congregation and drove his church into foreclosure was sentenced to four years in prison Wednesday during a contentious two-day hearing.
After multiple delays, a trial is set to begin next week for ex-MMA fighter War Machine, who is accused of beating and sexually assaulting his girlfriend in 2014.
Three teenagers appeared in Las Vegas Justice Court on Wednesday to face murder charges more than two years after a 41-year-old woman was killed.
Lawyers claim a suspended psychologist accused of killing his wife has been funding his criminal defense and feeding his “drug-addicted lifestyle” with the nearly $2 million he collected after she died.
Metro officers’s constitutional rights were violated when they faced termination for refusing to cooperate with internal investigations, a police union lawsuit against the department alleged this week.
After the verdict Friday, Jerry Earl Johnson, who was acquitted of a second charge, was taken into custody without bail. He faces 10 years to life in prison at an April sentencing for the 2009 incident at Wyndham Grand Desert hotel.
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