A 65-year-old Arkansas man convicted of committing a murder 29 years ago in Clark County had his death sentence and conviction reversed by the Nevada Supreme Court on Thursday.
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O.J. Simpson’s feuding former Las Vegas trial lawyers have settled a breach-of-contract lawsuit in Nevada federal court and a slander claim in Florida state court, leaving one dispute remaining between the imprisoned former football star’s ex-lawyer from Miami and one of his current attorneys in Nevada.
Time appears to be running out for Nevada’s 12-year-old constitutional ban on same-sex marriage, along with other, similar prohibitions around the country.
A federal judge has declined to reconsider a lawsuit alleging that officials at Rawson-Neal Psychiatric Hospital in Las Vegas violated a patient’s civil rights by giving him a bus ticket to California upon discharge.
In the wake of a federal court order, the Las Vegas constable’s office Thursday temporarily suspended its enforcement of a state law requiring new residents to obtain Nevada license plates after 30 days.
A 61-year-old man who was arrested after he told police he killed a woman Sunday at a Reno motel had been released from prison in September after serving more than 20 years for the murder of his fiance in southern Nevada, state records show.
Police in Las Vegas arrested a northwest Arizona fugitive who was convicted of manslaughter and other charges after skipping his trial in Kingman last week.
A new Nevada law aimed at mentally ill offenders who keep tying up the criminal justice system because they won’t stay on their medications isn’t being used for those considered too noncompliant, and a Clark County judge and deputy public defender are fighting back.
Thousands — many in uniform — gathered Thursday to bid farewell to officer Igor Soldo at Canyon Ridge Christian Church, 6200 W. Lone Mountain Road, one of two Las Vegas police officers ambushed and killed Sunday while having lunch.
Before going on a shooting rampage that left five people dead, including two Las Vegas police officers and themselves, Jared and Amanda Miller displayed the classic ideological leanings of the anti-government patriot movement, according to nationally known experts who track extremist groups.
Preston Emerson, accused of shooting four people outside a Las Vegas hookah lounge, killing one, will spend the weekend in jail while attornyes sort out who should represent him in court.
A man convicted in the death of his 4-year-old son who was left in an SUV in June 2008 should get a new trial on myriad issues, including that Stanley Rimer should have been tried separately from his wife, his lawyer told the Nevada Supreme Court Wednesday.
O.J. Simpson’s lawyers were given another week Friday to reformat and resubmit an appeal to the Nevada Supreme Court seeking a new trial in the kidnapping and armed robbery case of the former football star.
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Shiva Gummi was arrested in April 2023 after he told a 911 dispatcher he had killed his wife, who was a new doctor at University Medical Center.
Speakers at a Board of Regents meeting expressed disappointment in a lack of response from the board and UNLV leadership on a recent commencement speech.
A weak trough passing north of Las Vegas will bring some gusty winds as the only blemish on a Memorial Day weekend forecast, says the National Weather Service.
Nicholas Bott, 44, had been facing a felony charge of child abuse and a gross misdemeanor count of contact with a minor.