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FBI offers reward in search for Las Vegas mosque vandal suspect

The FBI is offering up to $5,000 for information leading to the arrest or conviction of the person or people responsible for wrapping bacon around a central Las Vegas mosque’s front door handles Sunday morning.

 
Trial begins for first of 6 Baltimore officers charged in Freddie Gray death

The first of six city police officers went on trial Monday in a closely watched case involving a 25-year-old black prisoner who died after being shackled and placed without a seat belt in a Baltimore City police van.

 
Photographer sues over shark picture used in ‘Steve Jobs’

A photo of an open-mouthed great white shark is at the center of a copyright infringement lawsuit filed Thursday in Las Vegas against the creators and distributors of the new movie “Steve Jobs.”

 
Childhood friends, former teachers testify in Colo. theater shooting trial

Defense lawyers trying to save the life of Colorado movie rampage gunman James Holmes have called witness after witness to take the stand just feet from where he sits, tethered to the floor, expressionless. All of them, from his former piano teacher to friends of his parents, referred to him as “Jimmy,” the child they once knew.

 
16 firefighters placed on leave after sex tape investigation

Sixteen state firefighters were placed on paid administrative leave Monday for unrelated policy violations that grew out of an investigation into allegations of firefighters having sex on fire trucks, officials said.