Jeff German’s relentless pursuit of stories exemplified the kind of dogged work he practiced throughout a roughly four-decade journalism career in Las Vegas.
Courts
Four reputed MS-13 gang members have been indicted in what authorities described as a racketeering conspiracy involving several murders, kidnappings, burglaries and drug trafficking.
At a brief hearing Wednesday, a Henderson judge set a preliminary hearing for a woman charged with drowning her two young children.
A judge said he would decide within days whether to sign an order of execution for a man sentenced to die for killing four people inside a Las Vegas grocery store.
Authorities have said Jordan Barson, 45, was high on methamphetamine when he plowed into a group of bicyclists on Dec. 10 near Searchlight, killing five of them.
A former Las Vegas bank manager was sentenced to 2½ years in federal prison for stealing almost $1.2 million in benefits from the Social Security Administration and Department of Veterans Affairs.
Authorities have said Jordan Barson, 45, was high on methamphetamine when he plowed into a group of bicyclists in Clark County on Dec. 10, killing five of them .
Relatives expressed their grief Friday before a judge sentenced Scott Gragson to prison for killing a mother of three while driving drunk last year.
A judge set bail at $50,000 for Adolfo Orozco, the landlord of a downtown Las Vegas apartment building where six people died in a fire in December.
Prosecutors told a judge on Thursday that the suspect, Edgar Samaniego, admitted to firing his gun outside Circus Circus but said he was intending to scare off protesters.
A man facing the death penalty could be freed from jail as soon as Tuesday, despite concerns about the defendant’s safety on the streets.
A group of prosecutors from across the country gathered to discuss gun violence in Las Vegas, not far from the site of the Oct. 1, 2017, mass shooting.
Prosecutors said Wednesday that they would offer probation for a man whose lawyers asked that he is treated similarly to tech billionaire Henry Nicholas.
A 31-year-old woman with ties to the death of a California doctor has worked out a deal with Las Vegas prosecutors.