On deciding Javier Righetti’s punishment for the rape and murder of 15-year-old Alyssa Otremba, a prosecutor on Tuesday urged jurors to look no further than the defendant’s own words.
The Clark County coroner has determined that 5-month-old Izayah Pelaez-Daniel died of blunt force head trauma and ruled his Oct. 8 death a homicide.
Javier Righetti was convicted of first-degree murder Thursday in the 2011 stabbing death of a 15-year-old Las Vegas girl, and prosecutors plan to seek capital punishment.
The central figure in a highly publicized northwest Arizona prison escape in 2010 that led to two murders in New Mexico has died in custody.
A Kingman, Arizona, man was sentenced Thursday to 13 years in prison for using a hatchet to kill a man he was trying to evict from his property.
After two homeless men were killed in similar incidents earlier this year, Las Vegas police said they were forced to look beyond traditional investigative techniques to find a suspect.
A Nevada death row inmate will get a second chance to show that his 1996 double-murder conviction was tainted because the trial judge was under investigation at the time for allegedly taking bribes, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled on Monday.
A mannequin, covered with blankets and positioned to resemble a homeless person sleeping on the sidewalk, was attacked with a hammer near downtown Las Vegas.