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Firefighter pleads not guilty in wife’s death

A Las Vegas firefighter charged with hiring a homeless man for $600 to kill his estranged wife told a district judge he was not guilty Thursday. A few hours later the hired killer, Noel “Greyhound” Stevens, told Judge Jerry Tao he was guilty of beating to death Shauna Tiaffay with a hammer in September and George Tiaffay hired him to do it.

Axe-wielding man held after chasing stranger in Las Vegas

A man who chased a stranger on a street with an axe before barricading himself in an apartment Thursday morning has been arrested, according to Las Vegas police.