A brother and sister from Belize have been convicted by a federal jury in Las Vegas of multiple felony counts for using false identities to steal nearly $300,000 in unemployment funds and other government benefits.
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A 57-year-old Elko woman who is accused of killing her husband with a carving knife 12 years ago said in court last week that she and another man tried to encase his body in concrete when they buried him in a shallow grave.
The former budget analyst accused of stealing more than $1.1 million from the northwestern Arizona city of Kingman was arrested Wednesday and booked into the Mohave County jail.
Two men were indicted this week in the execution-style slayings of a couple in Las Vegas, prosecutors said Wednesday.
A Las Vegas woman charged with shooting her 11-year-old son was indicted on a murder charge, prosecutors announced Wednesday, more than seven months after the boy died.
A woman who helped undercover federal agents infiltrate the drug trafficking organization of a Las Vegas physician was sentenced to a brief stint in prison Wednesday.
Zimbabwe’s Constitutional Court outlawed child marriage on Wednesday after two former child brides took the government to court in a ground-breaking case to challenge the practice that is rife in the southern African nation.
