A Las Vegas pediatric laboratory technician was sentenced Monday to two years in prison for stealing the identity of a patient’s parent and using it to apply for credit cards.
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More than a year ago, prosecution mistakes allowed Brian Wright to beat charges of robbing three jewelry stores and walk out of court a free man. Now he’s back in custody accused of another robbery.
Three years and two dozen motions later, a federal court in Las Vegas will hear a federal lawsuit Monday that seeks to block the Southern Nevada Water Authority from siphoning groundwater from a 300-mile swath of eastern Nevada.
The Nevada State Board of Medical Examiners is still weighing whether a North Las Vegas doctor who pleaded guilty to lewdness involving patients may continue to practice medicine without restrictions.
The state Supreme Court on Thursday issued two rulings bolstering homeowners associations’ ability to sell houses through foreclosure.
Jorge Burgos, who pleaded guilty to three counts of open and gross lewdness, was sentenced Thursday to three years probation and seven days incarceration — one day for each of his victims, the judge said.
The Nevada Supreme Court on Thursday overturned a second-degree murder conviction against the Las Vegas doctor imprisoned under 27 criminal counts related to the city’s 2007 hepatitis C outbreak.
A judge on Thursday ordered the execution of Scott Dozier, securing a path to imminent death for the two-time convicted murderer who has spent the last year trying to persuade the state to kill him.
The unpublished opinion, dated Tuesday, upheld a lower court ruling rejecting a challenge to the state’s medical marijuana program.
Gregory Burleson, a member of Arizona militia groups who participated in the 2014 armed standoff in Bunkerville, was sentenced Wednesday to more than 68 years in federal prison.
The lawyers waited in courtroom 6A for over an hour, speculating as to Bing Han’s whereabouts. Han, who was acquitted in a case involving a marijuana grow operation, didn’t answer repeated phone calls from his attorney, Gabriel Grasso.
A Las Vegas man was sentenced Tuesday in federal court to 78 months in prison followed by lifetime supervision after pleading guilty to possession of child pornography in April.
A 43-year-old man was acquitted Monday on felony charges of assault with a deadly weapon in connection with an officer involved shooting.
Federal prosecutors began presenting their case Monday against a father-son duo accused of growing hundreds of marijuana plants inside a Las Vegas residence.
More than 22 years have passed since Kathleen Delaney, now a sitting judge in Clark County District Court, received the notice that she would have to testify in O.J. Simpson’s murder trial, but she recites details of the story as if it happened 22 hours ago.