A former cocktail waitress at Pure nightclub, who claims she was attacked by the son of a Caesars Entertainment Corp. executive, has filed a legal malpractice lawsuit against two veteran attorneys in federal court.
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A former professional baseball player accidentally shot himself in the hand while cleaning his gun Tuesday afternoon, Las Vegas police said.
A reputed New York a mob associate has been arrested in Las Vegas on federal charges he killed a rival in Queens more than a decade ago. Gennaro Bruno, who lives in Las Vegas, was to appear in federal court here on the charges Tuesday afternoon.
The man accused of attacking 10 people with a hammer in Boulder City and Henderson had been high on meth hours before the Friday rampage, police say, and he may have had even more violent intentions.
Both sides of the criminal justice system — defense and prosecution — appeared to fall short in the case of a 2008 after-school shooting, a Clark County judge said Tuesday, but that didn’t compel him to toss a conviction.
On Tuesday, District Judge Abbi Silver sentenced Carlos Saenz III to five years probation for the felony, but said he must spend the first six months of that term in the Clark County Detention Center.
A former Lyon County sheriff’s deputy accused of forcing female inmates to perform sex acts at the jail is free on bail awaiting a pretrial hearing Dec. 4.
A Bullhead City, Ariz., man has been arrested in the death of his girlfriend’s infant son.
A suspected gunman was in custody and a second man was still being sought Tuesday after two people were shot outside a North Carolina courthouse, authorities said.
Las Vegas police are seeking the public’s help in identifying a man connected to a late September robbery in the southwest valley.
Authorities say a man shot by a California Highway Patrol trooper in Jean after a more than two-hour chase that crossed state lines died of a gunshot wound to the head.
The man wanted in connection with a string of cellphone robberies has committed three more robberies, Las Vegas police said.
The man found dead at a homeless encampment on Thursday has been identified by the Clark County coroner’s office.