One of two men who had previously faced capital punishment in connection with a 2017 double homicide was sentenced to prison.
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Prosecutors said Damarion Bennett, 16, and two other teenagers tried to rob a marijuana dealer on July 15 near the Tides at Walnut Park apartments.
A woman has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against her ex-husband after her 2-year-old grandson found a loaded gun and killed his 6-year-old sister.
The boy, whose name was not released because he was charged as a juvenile, pleaded guilty last month to one count of aiming a firearm at another human being.
A 44-year-old man pleaded guilty to a weapons charge on Wednesday in connection with a February shootout at a hookah lounge.
Murder weapons are in this vault, and the belongings of the murdered, too. The bottle of sangria found at the scene of a sexual assault is safely stored near the swingset that crushed a boy’s skull, leading to a $20 million civil judgment.
Lawyers for death row inmate Zane Floyd say an untested combination of drugs planned for his lethal injection would amount to cruel and unusual punishment.
In a nearly empty courtroom, Daniel Lopez was sentenced to between 4½ and 15 years behind bars for killing his roommate in January 2019.
The federal trial, which began in July, took a weeklong break in early February following four days of closing arguments from attorneys on both sides of the case.
A Las Vegas man was convicted Monday of fatally shooting his girlfriend and her 17-year-old daughter, as well as critically wounding her 4-year-old daughter.
A judge set bail at $100,000 each on Monday for three men facing conspiracy and attempted murder charges in connection with a weekend shooting at El Cortez.
Federal prosecutors are opposing the request by an Arizona man, who sold ammunition to the Las Vegas shooter, to move his case out of Nevada.
Prosecutors have dismissed a murder charge against a Las Vegas man who was accused in the fatal shooting of a 28-year-old woman in the central valley last month.
A 24-year-old man was indicted this week in a fatal shooting just east of the Strip.
Ayden McKinnon, who spent his 15th and 16th birthday in the Clark County Detention Center, could spend many more in prison. Should a judge decide in January that McKinnon should serve time behind bars, she could order upward of 46 years.