A joint traffic safety operation between Nevada Highway Patrol and California High Patrol resulted in hundreds of drivers cited over Memorial Day weekend, authorities announced.
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Two women died in separate crashes and a man was killed after being stabbed in the Las Vegas Valley this weekend.
A man died early Saturday morning after being stabbed in the east valley.
A person suffered life-threatening injuries after they were intentionally struck by a vehicle near downtown Las Vegas, according to police.
A hit-and-run suspect accused of killing a pedestrian last month in central Las Vegas was arrested Thursday, according to the Metropolitan Police Department.
Court cases have shown detailed accounts of Tony Hsieh’s drug use and bizarre behavior, and allegations that people close to Hsieh took advantage of him financially as his health spiraled downward.
After taking the late Tony Hsieh’s family to court over contract disputes, his longtime friend and former assistant has now filed more than $90 million worth of creditor’s claims in his probate case.
A judge in Las Vegas agreed to strike portions of a lawsuit alleging the Can Can Room’s owner ran an illegal brothel at the decades-old strip club.
Edwin Fujinaga, former chief executive of MRI International, was convicted Tuesday of eight counts of mail fraud, nine counts of wire fraud and three counts of money laundering, according to an announcement from federal prosecutors in Nevada.
Lynn Benson was indicted by a Clark County grand jury Thursday on five counts of mortgage lending fraud, one count of a pattern of mortgage lending fraud, and five counts of theft. All are felony charges.
District Judge Ronald Israel this week revoked Benson’s probation, after finding that he violated it, and imposed what had been a suspended sentence of two to five years in state prison, with 173 days credit for time served, court records show.
Thomas Benson, who authorities say follows anti-government “sovereign citizen” ideology, was given probation this week for filing bogus real estate paperwork in Las Vegas.
The situation surrounding 809 Palmhurst Drive in the western Las Vegas Valley shows that anyone can file papers with Clark County to take ownership of a house, and the havoc this can cause.
Thomas Benson, who authorities say follows anti-government “sovereign citizen” ideology, pleaded guilty Monday to filing bogus real estate paperwork in Las Vegas.
Thomas Benson, 56, was arrested last year on charges stemming from the alleged takeover of a bank-owned home on La Mancha Avenue in northwest Las Vegas.
Las Vegas is a special kind of resort city. On the inside, you get The Strip (and now, the Sphere); on the outside, you get the vast Mojave Desert with its nostalgic attractions. In the past, people visiting Las Vegas would do so with the phrase in mind: “What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas.” […]
Colin Czech is accused of killing a man outside a downtown convenience store and eating parts of the victim’s face, police said.
Shiva Gummi was arrested in April 2023 after he told a 911 dispatcher he had killed his wife, who was a new doctor at University Medical Center.
Nicholas Bott, 44, had been facing a felony charge of child abuse and a gross misdemeanor count of contact with a minor.
An 18-year-old was taken into custody after police said he was “doing donuts in the grass area” of a Henderson park.