Las Vegas investor and purported billionaire Jay Bloom is accused of taking money from investors to fund a cryptocurrency mining scheme in Arizona that he knew was not viable, according to a recent lawsuit.
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A woman was being held hostage at knife-point by a man when two Metropolitan Police Department officers fired their weapons late Saturday night.
A bill co-sponsored by U.S. Rep. Susie Lee would put the weight of the federal government behind efforts to prosecute criminals taking part in organized retail theft.
Two-year-old Jacoby Robinson Jr. was last seen about 7:45 p.m. Thursday near Lewis Avenue and South 15th Street.
Prosecutors have dropped a slew of felony charges against a former member of a notorious Las Vegas gang, closing a case that has stretched on for more than three years.
The family of a shoplifting suspect who was fatally stabbed in January outside a Henderson mall has filed a lawsuit against the security officer accused of killing him.
Aria Styron, 21, charged with murder after allegedly selling counterfeit prescription pills that killed another 21-year-old, appeared in court on Thursday morning.
Former Judge John McGroarty, who served in Clark County District Court for more than two decades, died on Monday.
Christopher Berrios, 55, is accused of killing 46-year-old Bernard Robledo at the Las Vegas home they shared and dumping his body in a recycling bin in September.
A former North Las Vegas firefighter charged with murder in his wife’s overdose death pleaded guilty Friday to involuntary manslaughter.
Nevada’s first night court program designed to make attending municipal court hearings easier will open for business next week in North Las Vegas.
“Mental health court was the best thing that ever happened to me,” 53-year-old Henry Snyder said recently. He has become a completely different person in the past six years.
Nevada’s death row houses 64 inmates. Some of them have killed multiple people, including children. Others ended the lives of elderly victims. Some shot police officers or strangers, while others stabbed someone they knew.
Gamal Abdelaziz, a former casino executive from Las Vegas, and John Wilson, a former Staples Inc. executive, were found guilty after about 10 hours of deliberations.
Nevada’s death row houses 64 convicted killers, all men, most of whom have been awaiting execution for more than two decades.
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A woman was being held hostage at knife-point by a man when two Metropolitan Police Department officers fired their weapons late Saturday night.
Former Clark County Public Administrator Robert Telles, who is accused of killing Review-Journal reporter Jeff German, appeared in court again.
A 15-year-old was fatally shot in the northeast valley during what Las Vegas police described as a “drug transaction.”
The discovery was made about 9:40 p.m. in a neighborhood near Wetlands Park, police said.