A judge has dismissed a murder charge against a Las Vegas woman accused of driving over her boyfriend and killing him.
David Ferrara
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Before being named assistant city editor in September 2021, David covered courts and legal affairs for the Review-Journal. He joined the newspaper in 2014 after more than six years reporting in the Deep South, where he wrote extensively about the BP oil spill. Prior to that, he worked for newspapers, magazines and a wire service in Chicago. He is a graduate of Southern Illinois University in Carbondale.
Lawyers for Zane Floyd, convicted in a Las Vegas grocery store massacre, filed court papers Tuesday detailing for the first time a request to commute his death sentence.
Prosecutors want Zane Floyd’s lethal injection to be given the week of July 26 inside the execution chamber at Ely State Prison. Floyd killed four people in 1999.
One of six people accused of defacing federal buildings during a Black Lives Matter protest has pleaded guilty to a federal charge, prosecutors said Monday.
Prosecutors on Monday pushed back the date they want to execute Zane Floyd for killing four people inside a Las Vegas grocery store.
Felon and former 311 Boyz gang member Steven Gazlay and his girlfriend skipped court Wednesday while facing charges of swindling a lender out of more than $700,000.
The Nevada Supreme Court on Thursday reversed the murder conviction and punishment for a Las Vegas man sentenced to die for the killings of his sixth wife and a supposed hitman.
A Las Vegas judge’s scathing decision to throw out a DUI conviction called into question a separation of powers in Nevada government.
A pair of Las Vegas men accused in the theft of 240 pounds of commercial-grade explosives from a Southern Nevada mining business are facing federal charges.
The driver of an SUV that fatally struck two 16-year-old Las Vegas girls was ordered held without bail on Monday.
A trial over new marijuana shop licenses is set to take place at the Las Vegas Convention Center because of the coronavirus pandemic.
Two new Family Court judges could emerge from this week’s primary election, while at least one incumbent is at risk of losing her seat, according to early results posted Wednesday.
Two District Court judges appeared to have retained their seats on the bench, while a third incumbent could be forced to face a challenger in the general election.
In a race for a Nevada Supreme Court seat, Assemblyman Ozzie Fumo and District Judge Douglas Herndon appeared to be headed to a general election in November, according to tentative primary results posted early Wednesday morning.
For the second time in six months, Wayne Newton is facing a lawsuit that accuses his pet monkey of attacking someone during a tour of his home.