Former Strip illusionist Jan Rouven wants to back out of his plea to federal child pornography charges, but a judge said Friday that she needs to analyze evidence to determine whether he understood the possible prison sentence he could face.
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A San Francisco police officer who killed himself after being pulled over by police in a neighboring city was under investigation for child sexual abuse in Las Vegas, authorities said Tuesday.
Surveillance video shows Las Vegas attorney and College of Southern Nevada professor Mark Peplowski having sex in public on two separate occasions earlier this year, according to police records.
Attorney and College of Southern Nevada professor Mark Peplowski has been arrested on lewdness charges.
A woman filed a lawsuit Tuesday that accuses Centennial Hills Hospital Medical Center of failing to protect her from a psychiatric patient who tried to sexually assault her.
Police report that former Clark High School coach Juan Alfredo Chavez first tried to hug the student, then attempted to kiss her on the lips before a school football game.
A former volunteer soccer coach at Clark High School in Las Vegas was arrested Thursday on a felony lewdness charge involving a child.
The 21-year-old man accused of abducting and forcing a UNLV student to perform a sexual act on him last week had a previous arrest at a Las Vegas high school a month before the abduction, according to court documents.
A new partnership between the FBI and advertising corporation Clear Channel Outdoor to raise awareness about human trafficking has the potential to change lives, an FBI special agent said during a press conference Thursday in Las Vegas.
Esther Rodriguez Brown saw panic in the young woman’s eyes. After about 10 years of serving victims of sex trafficking, it is a look she knows well.
Sex trafficking is widely believed to increase when big sporting events take place. What’s less clear is the effect a new professional sports team — or in Las Vegas’ case, two new sports teams — will have on sex trafficking.
Large-scale events in the Las Vegas Valley mean national media attention, a boost in tourism, and, according to Las Vegas police, a spike in prostitution-related crimes.
A yearslong struggle with addiction and mental illness ended in June with seizures, drugs and death for one Las Vegas woman, whose body was found in the company of a man she did not know.
A sex trafficking ring with ties to Las Vegas was busted in Southern California this week, and a Los Angeles detective says it is common for pimps based in the City of Angels to operate in Sin City.
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.
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Former President Donald Trump discussed campaign strategies and policies for potential second terms in an exclusive interview with the Las Vegas Review-Journal.
A woman was being held hostage at knife-point by a man when two Metropolitan Police Department officers fired their weapons late Saturday night.
Decades in the making, residents now have another option to cross the Colorado River between Laughlin and Bullhead City, Arizona.
Harry Reid International Airport set more records during a weeklong heat wave in early June.