Police say a man was shot and seriously wounded Tuesday near the downtown area after he swung a knife at an officer. The man, who was in critical condition at University Medical Center, was jaywalking across Fremont Street. He ran into a motel when two officers in a patrol car stopped him. One officer followed him in.
Dr. Dipak Desai, at the center of the hepatitis C outbreak, is faking his physical disabilities to obstruct the criminal case against him, a prosecutor argued Tuesday.
A 73-year-old man was sentenced to probation Tuesday and ordered to pay $90,000 in restitution after having lived 32 years under an assumed identity. Arthur Gerald Jones was declared dead 25 years ago.
A Las Vegas man was sentenced to two years in prison Tuesday for his role in a sweeping scheme to steal $4.4 million in state and federal unemployment benefits. Efrain Garcia, 41, was the first of four men who pleaded guilty in the scam.
Brandon Snowden was supposed to throw away three bags of shredded, potentially incriminating documents from the office files of attorney Brian Bloomfield following a police raid in April 2010.
It wasn’t an easy few weeks for Las Vegas cabdrivers. Between Dec. 30 and Jan. 16, drivers were robbed, beaten and shot at in a series of seven robberies that police say were conducted by a brazen group of teenage gangsters.
Former business partners of developer and high-profile lobbyist Harvey Whittemore are accusing him of embezzling and misappropriating more than $40 million.
Dr. Dipak Desai, the physician at the center of the hepatitis C outbreak, has been “exaggerating” the effects of two strokes, state medical experts testified Friday.
