The Metropolitan Police Department is investigating a homicide Monday in the east Las Vegas Valley.
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Diaja Smith and Jacoby Robinson are being held in custody without bail in connection with the death of a 2-year-old whose body was found in a dumpster last week.
Las Vegas police investigated a fatal crash and a killing at a house party, and two officers shot a person they said tried to stab someone.
The wounded man died outside a residence where a party took place in northwest Las Vegas near West Oakey Boulevard.
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.
Kim Wanker has a serious case of lead foot. Trained as a professional race car driver, she thrives on the exhilaration that comes with going fast, pedal to the metal, the high-desert scenery hurtling past her car window. For the 54-year-old Wanker, speed takes her mind off her stressful work — dealing with alleged wife-beaters, child molesters and drug abusers across central Nevada.
In October, the state adapted the Nevada Corrections Department’s Casa Grande 400-bed, dormitory-style facility to accommodate prisoners whose poverty prevented their parole.
Nevadans have a reason to know Supreme Court nominee Merrick Garland’s name beyond the highly charged U.S. Senate debate over whether his nomination should get a hearing, much less a confirmation vote.
A $5 million judgment awarded in a 2005 fender bender was vacated Thursday by the Nevada Supreme Court, which ordered a new trial after finding that a Clark County district judge made multiple errors during trial.
An inmate was found dead in his cell early Tuesday afternoon in Lovelock Correctional Center, the Nevada Department of Corrections said in a statement.
It’s time for Senior U.S. District Judge Robert Clive Jones to retire. He’s the most-appealed and most-reversed federal judge in Nevada, according to the legal research service Westlaw.
Gov. Brian Sandoval on Wednesday picked a veteran corrections administrator from out of state to take the helm of Nevada’s beleagured prison system.
Following a five-day retrial, a former Las Vegas mortgage agent was acquitted late Monday in what federal prosecutors alleged was a $1.2 million mortgage fraud scheme.
Allegations of a corruption have plagued Boulder City since reports surfaced that the city’s police chief dropped a criminal investigation of the city’s animal control supervisor who’d been accused of needlessly killing dozens of animals for years.
Nevada officials have settled a lawsuit with voting rights advocates over making voter registration materials available to low-income and disabled clients.
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Diaja Smith and Jacoby Robinson are being held in custody without bail in connection with the death of a 2-year-old whose body was found in a dumpster last week.
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.
Former Clark County Public Administrator Robert Telles, who is accused of killing Review-Journal reporter Jeff German, appeared in court again.