Marwan Porter, an attorney for the family of Cynthia Mikell, 61 told reporters that The Cochran Firm has launched its own investigation into the fire.
Courts
In the same year the Nevada Legislature decided not to act on a bill to end capital punishment, three men were removed Nevada’s death row — two by legal means and one by suicide.
The Nevada Commission on Judicial Discipline decided Tuesday that it would not suspend a pair of Las Vegas judges over questions about profanity off the bench and administrative complaints involving court clerks.
A woman charged in a drug robbery that left a Las Vegas man dead a year ago was ordered released from jail Monday on her own recognizance.
A 41-year-old man was convicted Friday of murder in connection with a northwest valley slaying.
In more than 40 years, the Nevada Commission on Judicial Discipline has suspended only two sitting judges from the bench.
A high-definition home surveillance video captured Glenn Harris shooting his 30-year-old son in the chest and throat inside the garage of a northwest valley home.
Octavia Carter, 40, accused of stabbing her husband to death in front of their children is expected to undergo a competency evaluation.
A 27-year-old Las Vegas man had nearly twice the legal limit of alcohol in his system when he crashed on Thanksgiving and killed a mother of three, a prosecutor says.
A district judge ordered a civil lawyer handcuffed in her courtroom this week after finding that he violated a longstanding order to pay court costs and attorney fees.
A Las Vegas woman shot by police while she was holding a shovel filed a $7 million federal civil rights lawsuit Tuesday against the police department and the officer involved.
A Las Vegas mother pleaded guilty Tuesday to second-degree murder and child abuse charges in connection with the death of her 3-year-old son.
A judge denied a new trial for a pair of teens convicted in the slaying of 17-year-old Matthew Minkler in Henderson in June 2018.
A judge on Monday set a preliminary hearing for a retired Las Vegas police officer charged with soliciting a child for prostitution.
A pair of high-profile Las Vegas attorneys settled a federal legal malpractice lawsuit against a former Pure nightclub cocktail waitress.
