Marwan Porter, an attorney for the family of Cynthia Mikell, 61 told reporters that The Cochran Firm has launched its own investigation into the fire.
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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.
In the same year the Nevada Legislature decided not to act on a bill to end capital punishment, three men were removed Nevada’s death row — two by legal means and one by suicide.
The Nevada Commission on Judicial Discipline decided Tuesday that it would not suspend a pair of Las Vegas judges over questions about profanity off the bench and administrative complaints involving court clerks.
A woman charged in a drug robbery that left a Las Vegas man dead a year ago was ordered released from jail Monday on her own recognizance.
A 41-year-old man was convicted Friday of murder in connection with a northwest valley slaying.
In more than 40 years, the Nevada Commission on Judicial Discipline has suspended only two sitting judges from the bench.
A high-definition home surveillance video captured Glenn Harris shooting his 30-year-old son in the chest and throat inside the garage of a northwest valley home.
Octavia Carter, 40, accused of stabbing her husband to death in front of their children is expected to undergo a competency evaluation.
Special prosecutors, who were trying to show that Justice of the Peace Melanie Andress-Tobiasson is a threat to the public, asked about the appropriateness of the sweater.
A pair of Las Vegas judges faced a Nevada Commission on Judicial Discipline panel Monday in a hearing.
Federal prosecutors have been waiting more than a year for an appeals court to decide whether to resurrect the criminal case against Cliven Bundy and several co-defendants.
The Metropolitan Police Department still wants to collect hundreds of thousands of dollars from media outlets for records related to the Oct. 1, 2017, massacre.
A 27-year-old Las Vegas man had nearly twice the legal limit of alcohol in his system when he crashed on Thanksgiving and killed a mother of three, a prosecutor says.
A district judge ordered a civil lawyer handcuffed in her courtroom this week after finding that he violated a longstanding order to pay court costs and attorney fees.
A Las Vegas woman shot by police while she was holding a shovel filed a $7 million federal civil rights lawsuit Tuesday against the police department and the officer involved.