Terrell Rhodes pleaded guilty in a Las Vegas court to killing his girlfriend’s 2-year-old son, Amari Nicholson, in 2021.
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A teenager accused of mowing down a retired police chief in a fatal hit-and-run last month told police he thought he would receive a “slap on the wrist,” according to an arrest report.
A 49-year-old man was sentenced to prison on Tuesday for his role in the 2019 killing of a model whose body was found in the desert encased in concrete.
Timeline of major developments in the Food and Drug Administration’s investigation of Las Vegas-based Real Water.
A newly released video shows Scott Gragson, a prominent real estate broker facing felony DUI charges in a fatal crash, telling police he consumed four or five beers and tequila shots, and lost control of his vehicle.
An Indian Springs man has been sentenced to one year and one day in prison for breaking into a National Park Service site in Nye County and disturbing the only home for one of the world’s rarest types of fish.
A renewed agreement between the city of Henderson and the Las Vegas Paiute Tribe will provide alternative inmate housing for the tribe.
Defense attorneys for David Copperfield and others wrapped up their closing arguments Friday in a trial over a slip and fall at one of the magician’s shows. Jury deliberations are expected to begin early next week.
Bryan Clay was formally sentenced Thursday on charges related to the murders of Ignacia “Yadira” Martinez, 38, and her 10-year-old daughter, Karla. Clay alluded to an appeal, telling District Judge Douglas Herndon, “We’re not done yet. It’s not complete.”
A group of defendants still waiting to face a jury want a judge to release them from federal detention, where they have been held for more than a year.
The Las Vegas officer facing charges in the May death of an unarmed black man has filed a lawsuit against the Metropolitan Police Department.
The lawyers waited in courtroom 6A for over an hour, speculating as to Bing Han’s whereabouts. Han, who was acquitted in a case involving a marijuana grow operation, didn’t answer repeated phone calls from his attorney, Gabriel Grasso.
The retrial in the first Bunkerville standoff case is scheduled to open with jury selection July 10.
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.
Anticipating a battle in the upcoming trial against six associates of rancher Cliven Bundy, federal prosecutors this week asked a judge to prohibit defense attorneys from referencing a wide range of material that is central to defense strategy in the case.