A three-time convicted killer on Nevada’s death row for nearly four decades had his sentence overturned for the second time.
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Prosecutors in Las Vegas plan to decide soon whether to seek the death penalty for a teen accused of killing his girlfriend’s father.
The Nevada Supreme Court has reversed a lower court judge’s decision to throw out attempted murder and battery charges at the start of a trial.
A federal jury has convicted two men in a series of Las Vegas armed robberies at two banks and the same Starbucks coffeehouse twice.
A Boulder City man was convicted in a federal trial of assaulting his wife at a campground in the Lake Mead National Recreation Area.
A 16-year-old girl and her boyfriend were indicted Friday on murder charges in connection with the slaying of her father.
A judge outside Las Vegas rejected a bid for a new trial Wednesday from a convicted felon who alleged widespread corruption within Clark County’s justice system.
A former officer with the Metropolitan Police Department who admitted to stealing from a police dog fundraiser was ordered to pay thousands of dollars Wednesday and serve up to three years probation.
The Innocence Center of Nevada, which announced its launch this week, is expected to start examining claims of innocence in criminal cases next month.
A man is being freed after serving a fraction of the prison sentence he received for a conviction involving the kidnapping and sexual assault of a 6-year-old girl.
The judge found that the dual roles of Sens. Nicole Cannizzaro and Melanie Scheible, who work as prosecutors when not acting as legislators, did not amount to a constitutional violation of separation of powers.
Prosecutors indicted a father and son on charges of beating a man to death at a Las Vegas bus stop while the father was free on house arrest after being charged with sexual assault of a child.
Police on Wednesday located the body of missing Las Vegas toddler Amari Nicholson, hours after the man charged in his death was ordered held without bail. That evening, community members gathered to honor Amari at a vigil.
One of six people accused of defacing federal buildings during a Black Lives Matter protest has pleaded guilty to a federal charge, prosecutors said Monday.
Prosecutors on Monday pushed back the date they want to execute Zane Floyd for killing four people inside a Las Vegas grocery store.