District Judge Elizabeth Gonzalez, who served on the bench for 17 years, has submitted her resignation effective later this year.
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A federal judge issued a stay of execution Monday for death row inmate Zane Floyd, who was sentenced to die for fatally shooting four people in a Las Vegas grocery store.
“It wasn’t his nature that created the Pat McKenna that spent all that time in prison,” said brother Ken, a former Nevada lawyer. “It was the nurture part of his life.”
A Las Vegas woman charged with killing her two young daughters was found incompetent to stand trial on Monday.
A former professional football player charged in the death of his girlfriend’s 5-year-old daughter wants his bail, set at $500,000, lowered.
A driver charged in the death of a Las Vegas bicyclist had been released from prison less than four months ago.
Lawyers for a group of protesters and legal observers have filed a lawsuit that accuses Las Vegas police of using excessive force during Black Lives Matter demonstrations.
A man charged in the slaying of a 24-year-old Las Vegas model, whose body was found last year encased in concrete, has started “hearing voices,” his lawyers said.
Nevada’s judicial discipline board is unlikely to act on a series of complaints filed against candidates in the 2020 primary unless the targets of the complaints are elected.
A stripper with an admitted heroin addiction was one of many witnesses who testified before the grand jury that indicted Las Vegas police Detective Lawrence Rinetti Jr.
About a month after eight members of the Vagos Motorcycle Club were acquitted, federal prosecutors on Friday dropped all charges against each of their co-defendants, except one.
Real estate broker Scott Gragson pleaded guilty Friday in his fatal DUI case and is expected to spend several years in prison.
A judge set bail at $50,000 on Friday for a former Las Vegas police officer facing child sex charges.
Testimony began Tuesday in the death penalty trial of a man accused of killing a Lee’s Discount Liquor clerk during a robbery.
A Las Vegas man, Christopher Prestipino, was indicted Monday in the slaying of a 24-year-old model whose body authorities said was found encased in concrete.