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.
Katherine Houston wrote a concerned letter to her son Dylan around the time of his divorce from Ashley Prince, records show.
When Lisa Rasmussen pulled into the parking lot of Prince Law Group, she knew the deposition would be intense. She had no idea it would turn deadly.
One gambler told the FBI that Stephen Paddock, who opened fire on concertgoers on Oct. 1, 2017, killing 60, was “very upset at the way casinos were treating him.”
Prosecutors said they will not pursue the death penalty against Samantha Moreno Rodriguez, 35, a California woman accused of strangling her 7-year-old son near Las Vegas.
Samantha Moreno Rodriguez, 35, is charged in the murder of her 7-year-old son, Liam Husted.
Nearly a month after his body was found off a Southern Nevada highway, 7-year-old Liam Husted was honored in a service Friday in Santa Clara, California.
A dozen Las Vegas residents held a small vigil Sunday for the 7-year-old California boy whose body was found in Mountain Springs last month.
It took decades to find a break in the case. But after 27 years on the lam, a tip from the victim’s family led to the extradition of a Nevada fugitive.
The 18-year-old man charged with sexually assaulting a woman walking her dog in west Las Vegas made his first court appearance Thursday.
Other homeless residents admit to being unnerved by the back-to-back fatalities — one a homicide, the other a pedestrian death — but others say they simply underscored a central truth of life on the streets: “There ain’t no safety.”
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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.