As the tears dripped down her face, the mother of a convicted murderer looked toward jurors Friday and begged them to spare her son’s.
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A Las Vegas man was convicted Tuesday of raping and murdering a mother and her 10-year-old daughter in a bloody 2012 attack that nearly killed the woman’s husband.
For the first time in nine years, O.J. Simpson is free. Although speculation raged about where the former football star would head next, a state official said Simpson would live in Las Vegas for now.
Las Vegas police have released body camera footage after former Metropolitan Police Department officer Richard Scavone pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor in an excessive force case Thursday.
Longtime estate attorney Robert Graham pleaded guilty in District Court Thursday to stealing millions of dollars from clients, many of whom relied financially on trust funds he oversaw.
Montana resident Ricky Lovelien and Idaho resident Steven Stewart were acquitted of all 10 counts they faced in the Bunkerville standoff case.
A 37-year-old mother pleaded guilty but mentally ill Wednesday to a child abuse charge for hurling her two young children out a second-story window.
A now-disbarred Las Vegas lawyer and his childhood friend were indicted this month after at least three people were scammed into investing thousands of dollars in a fake medical marijuana company.
O.J. Simpson’s story represents one of the most dramatic falls from grace in the history of American pop culture. Here’s a timeline of major events in the life of Simpson, now 70, who is up for parole on Thursday.
After nearly nine years in a rural Nevada prison, a state board could vote this week to grant parole to one of its most infamous inmates: O.J. Simpson.
A Las Vegas jury sentenced a 62-year-old man to death Wednesday for ordering his sixth wife dead and then killing the hit man.
After awaiting trial for almost nine years, a reputed drug dealer was convicted Wednesday of convincing a handyman to kill his sixth wife before fatally shooting the hit man inside the couple’s northwest valley home.
A former Las Vegas kindergarten teacher must serve 12½ years to life in prison for secretly keeping a 16-year-old girl in his apartment for two months.
A man who had $167,000 in cash confiscated by law enforcement during a traffic stop near Elko in 2013 won a victory in the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals on Monday with a ruling that found the search of his motor home was unconstitutional.
Alexis Plunkett, a criminal defense attorney who runs her own law firm and is now facing felony charges, told a judge on Monday that she paid her lawyer more for a week’s worth of work than she paid herself all of last month.
The upcoming European Parliament elections are set for June 6-9. Over 270 pro-democracy organizations, Nobel laureates and political and civic leaders—including former heads of state and government and EU leaders—have signed an open letter urging newly elected EU leaders to defend democracy. Today, the need for immediate action to defend democracy is not just a […]
After two days of official 108 highs, Thursday and Friday are projected to reach around 106. Winds could gust to 22 mph Thursday, giving a blow dryer feel to the day.
Re-creations of Central Perk and other sets, along with original props and costumes, will be on display at “The ‘Friends’ Experience.”
Henderson police and fire crews responded to reports of a shooting at about 1:30 p.m. in the 500 block of Marks Street.
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has sold a parcel of land in North Las Vegas to one of the largest homebuilders in the United States.