A man was found inside a vehicle suffering from an apparent gunshot wound, according to a Metropolitan Police Department news release.
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Fifty years later, the answers to who killed Las Vegas couple John Dubeck and his wife, Francis, outsidce their apartment complex are still elusive.
A man has been arrested in connection to a homicide in the east valley last month.
Justice of the Peace Melissa Saragosa-Stratton is stepping down to take a position at a prominent local law firm.
The children who suffered sexual abuse at the hands of a Clark County School District bus driver have, through their parents, filed a lawsuit alleging that the district either knew or should have known the risk they faced.
One witness said investigators were “very interested in whether the police planned to benefit financially and were promised anything in return for their endorsement.”
John Dabritz, 67, was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole on Tuesday for the ambush shooting last year of Jenkins near Ely.
The man was never charged with a crime, yet the government held on to his cash for months. Advocates say his case illustrates a broken civil asset forfeiture system.
U.S. District Judge Miranda Du wrote in her ruling that the law has “racist, nativist roots.”
“I have no choice but to resign immediately,” the woman wrote. “I simply wouldn’t be able to look my daughter in the eye or myself in the mirror otherwise.”
In exchange for John Dabritz’s plea of “guilty but mentally ill,” White Pine County prosecutors have pulled capital punishment off the table.
The deal protects the defendants from prison time and reduced a long list of felony counts to a handful of charges typically reserved for minor crimes.
A study showed that up to 40 percent of domestic violence victims stayed in abusive situations rather than leave their pets behind, yet only 17 percent of U.S. shelters allow pets.
A recently published report shows that a primary caregiver’s partner — typically a mother’s boyfriend — was identified as the suspect in more than half of child abuse and neglect cases in Clark County in fiscal 2016.
Marcel and Patricia Chappuis originally faced 45 counts each of child abuse or neglect — a felony punishable by up to 20 years in prison.
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Julie Bush is accused of intentionally hitting and killing her boyfriend with her vehicle.
The Clark County district attorney’s office has filed a motion accusing District Judge Erika Ballou of failing to follow orders from the Nevada Supreme Court.
A motorist accused of killing a pedestrian in central Las Vegas fled the scene and intentionally charred and ditched his car in a deserted area, according to police.
Imprisoned for a Las Vegas fatal DUI, former NFL player Henry Ruggs is in a prison work program that placed him at the Governor’s Mansion.