District Judge Elizabeth Gonzalez, who served on the bench for 17 years, has submitted her resignation effective later this year.
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A federal judge issued a stay of execution Monday for death row inmate Zane Floyd, who was sentenced to die for fatally shooting four people in a Las Vegas grocery store.
“It wasn’t his nature that created the Pat McKenna that spent all that time in prison,” said brother Ken, a former Nevada lawyer. “It was the nurture part of his life.”
A Las Vegas woman charged with killing her two young daughters was found incompetent to stand trial on Monday.
A former professional football player charged in the death of his girlfriend’s 5-year-old daughter wants his bail, set at $500,000, lowered.
A driver charged in the death of a Las Vegas bicyclist had been released from prison less than four months ago.
Lawyers for a group of protesters and legal observers have filed a lawsuit that accuses Las Vegas police of using excessive force during Black Lives Matter demonstrations.
A man charged in the slaying of a 24-year-old Las Vegas model, whose body was found last year encased in concrete, has started “hearing voices,” his lawyers said.
Nevada’s judicial discipline board is unlikely to act on a series of complaints filed against candidates in the 2020 primary unless the targets of the complaints are elected.
A stripper with an admitted heroin addiction was one of many witnesses who testified before the grand jury that indicted Las Vegas police Detective Lawrence Rinetti Jr.
About a month after eight members of the Vagos Motorcycle Club were acquitted, federal prosecutors on Friday dropped all charges against each of their co-defendants, except one.
Real estate broker Scott Gragson pleaded guilty Friday in his fatal DUI case and is expected to spend several years in prison.
A judge set bail at $50,000 on Friday for a former Las Vegas police officer facing child sex charges.
Testimony began Tuesday in the death penalty trial of a man accused of killing a Lee’s Discount Liquor clerk during a robbery.
A Las Vegas man, Christopher Prestipino, was indicted Monday in the slaying of a 24-year-old model whose body authorities said was found encased in concrete.
A man charged with driving under the influence and causing a seven-vehicle crash that left one person dead in Las Vegas was ordered held on $100,000 bail Monday.
A Nevada doctor and nurse are facing criminal charges after federal prosecutors said they conspired to prescribe opioids outside the “usual course of professional practice.”
Prosecutors on Wednesday announced an indictment against a Las Vegas developer and head of an accounting and tax firm on charges that he helped prepare false tax returns.
Prosecutors have decided against seeking capital punishment against Jon “Logan” Kennison and Kelsey Turner, who face murder and conspiracy charges in the killing of 71-year-old Thomas Burchard.
A 21-year-old woman accused of driving over and killing a Las Vegas nail salon manager was indicted Friday on murder, robbery and other charges.
Lawyers for Todd Pomeroy, a former Catholic school physical education teacher accused of making threats, said Tuesday that they would seek probation for the 57-year-old.