Las Vegas police arrested three suspects they allege kidnapped a child at gunpoint Saturday and held him against his will for about six hours while they demanded a ransom from his parents.
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Henderson and North Las Vegas filed a petition in March challenging a policy change that affected nonvoting school board members’ power during meetings.
A Las Vegas woman faces a murder charge after police allege she intentionally struck her boyfriend with her car, according to court records.
The shooting occurred about 8:30 p.m. near East Lake Mead Boulevard near North Pecos Road, according to the police department.
Suspect Emmanuel Almonor faces the possibility of multiple phone spoofing fraud charges after he was arrested by the Henderson Police Department’s financial crimes unit.
While Nevada has struggled to execute a condemned killer who volunteered for his sentence to be carried out and as other parts of the country move away from capital punishment, Clark County jurors handed down the second most death sentences in the United States last year.
A Las Vegas doctor pleaded guilty Wednesday to federal charges in connection with a sweeping crackdown on health care fraud by the Department of Justice.
The Nevada prison system asked the state’s high court Wednesday to reverse a lower court judge’s decision in a drug company’s lawsuit that halted this month’s execution of condemned killer Scott Dozier hours before he was scheduled to die.
The sentence for Ocean Fleming, who pleaded guilty to first-degree kidnapping and two counts of assault after cutting a deal with prosecutors this year, was knocked down to seven years and four months to 15 years.
A Las Vegas judge has denied a request to resentence a man who sexually assaulted and killed a 7-year-old girl more than two decades ago inside a Primm casino restroom.
A Las Vegas man prosecutors say raped and beat a woman in Henderson was indicted Thursday along with another woman on charges that could send them to prison for life.
An Idaho man was sentenced Thursday to 14 years behind bars for his role in a Bunkerville standoff with federal authorities six months after a judge dismissed felony conspiracy and weapons charges against rancher Cliven Bundy, two of his sons and another man.
A Las Vegas man who is accused of sending thousands of threatening text messages to a model in California was indicted Wednesday after authorities found a stockpile of weapons inside his home.
A 36-year-old man accused of spitting into a Las Vegas police officer’s mouth and eyes and telling her “I hope you enjoy the hepatitis C” is facing charges that carry a possible sentence of 10 years to life in prison, according to an indictment handed down Wednesday.
A tattoo-faced man who legally changed his name to Pirate must spent up to five years behind bars for a sex crime he committed more than 14 years ago.
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The student’s lawyers claim he was threatened, discriminated against at UNLV, amid taunts from pro-Palestinian protesters and inaction by the administration and Board of Regents.
The park near Bermuda Road and Pebble Road honors a Metropolitan Police Department sergeant who was shot and killed in the line of duty in 2006.
A joint traffic safety operation by the Nevada Highway Patrol and California Highway Patrol resulted in hundreds of drivers cited over Memorial Day weekend, authorities said.
Colin Czech is accused of killing a man outside a downtown convenience store and eating parts of the victim’s face, police said.