The Metropolitan Police Department’s arbitration with a police union that will cost taxpayers $6.9 million more for pay and benefits for officers strayed from Nevada law throughout the process, according to a review completed by Clark County’s legal counsel, Mary-Anne Miller.
For the first time in Las Vegas police history, an officer has been fired for an on-duty police shooting.
The military judge presiding in the sexual abuse and assault court-martial of a Nellis Air Force Base major excused all but four of the 11 officers who were detailed to serve as court members, or jurors, leaving the panel one shy of a quorum to proceed with the trial Wednesday.
A baggage handler arrested after dry ice bombs exploded at Los Angeles International Airport planted the devices as a prank, police said Wednesday.
Johnny Ray Taylor, who led a lavish lifestyle as a pimp while evading taxes and collecting government disability benefits, was sentenced Wednesday to 25 months in prison.
A University of California, Berkeley law school graduate who beheaded an exotic bird at a Strip hotel last year was sent to a prison boot camp on Tuesday as part of a plea deal he hopes will eventually drop his felony conviction to a misdemeanor.
