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.
A brother of Ignacia “Yadira” Martinez recalled for jurors on Thursday his frantic rush to find out what happened to his sister and niece in 2012.
A day after convicting a Las Vegas man in the April 2012 rape and murder of a mother and daughter, the all-women jury had another decision: whether or not to spare the 27-year-old his life.
A Las Vegas man was convicted Tuesday of raping and murdering a mother and her 10-year-old daughter in a bloody 2012 attack that nearly killed the woman’s husband.
Bryan Clay will have to wait until at least Monday to know the outcome of his trial in the 2012 rape and murder of a 10-year-old girl and her mother.
Condemned murderer Scott Dozier doesn’t care if he dies in pain. He just wants to die.
Just days after the Oct. 1 Strip massacre, a Nevada Supreme Court panel issued a decision that could sharpen questions about the adequacy of security at Mandalay Bay and increase its liability.
Cristopher Martinez took the witness stand Thursday during the death penalty trial of Bryan Clay, who is accused of raping and killing his mother, Ignacia “Yadira” Martinez, 38, and 10-year-old sister, Karla.
A judge threw out murder charges Thursday against a couple accused in the death of their special-needs son.
According to complaints filed Wednesday in Clark County District Court, 14 more people are seeking damages from the Oct. 1 mass shooting in Las Vegas.
At what likely was his last court appearance, Scott Dozier told a judge Wednesday afternoon, just as he has for more than a year, that he wants officials to carry out his death sentence.
Las Vegas is largely defined by its ability to defy expectations, and recent forecasts predicting a decline in its appeal to younger travelers are no exception. Contrary to these gloomy predictions, which suggest that an aging core visitor base might render the city’s 150,000 hotel rooms less appealing to new generations, the reality is strikingly […]
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.