Las Vegas Justice of the Peace Melanie Tobiasson has agreed to resign, rather than face ethics charges from a state disciplinary board.
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A Las Vegas woman was sentenced Thursday to a year in prison for fraudulently applying for more than $22,000 in unemployment benefits.
“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.”
The 25-year-old man charged with shooting two people on the Las Vegas Strip, killing one of them, made his first appearance in court on Wednesday.
The teenage couple charged with murdering the girl’s father made their first appearance Wednesday in Las Vegas Justice Court.
A Las Vegas attorney who successfully defended a race car driver in a U.S. Supreme Court case said he’s pleased with the ruling curbing the FTC’s authority to recover ill-gotten gains for cheated consumers.
A gender discrimination lawsuit claims that Nye County District Attorney Chris Arabia and Commissioner Leo Blundo “began a campaign of harassment” against an ex-prosecutor.
Prosecutors deny they have a conflict of interest in their efforts to execute Zane Floyd for killing four people inside a Las Vegas grocery store.
A judge ordered Christopher McDonnell, 29, to be sent to a maximum-security psychiatric facility until doctors deem him fit to stand trial, records show.
A judge on Monday denied bail for a 25-year-old man charged with shooting two people on the Strip, killing one.
A 16-year-old girl and her 18-year-old boyfriend, charged with murder in the death of the girl’s father, have been extradited to Clark County.
A Henderson man was sentenced Thursday by a New Jersey judge to 18 months in prison for his role in a $9 million mortgage fraud scheme.
As part of his plea, Timothy Harron, 52, agreed to forfeit an airplane, a sports car, a pickup, land and luxury jewelry, federal authorities said.
Lawyers for the Las Vegas basketball standout have asked a judge to throw out his DUI and reckless driving charges in connection with a crash that killed a man.
Jordan Barson, 45, pleaded guilty to two counts of DUI resulting in death and is scheduled to be sentenced in June.