A Texas man was sentenced Wednesday to five years in prison for his role in a 1992 beating that turned the victim into a quadriplegic. Lawrence Compehos Jr. never got to see justice. He died in 2008.
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Christopher Cooney tearfully told a jury Wednesday he regretted not doing more to stop the escalating feud between his mother and brother. Cooney testified during the second day of the trial of his mother, Linda Cooney, who is charged with shooting and paralyzing her son, Kevin Cooney, after a June 2011 fight over his then-girlfriend.
Las Vegas police say a 21-year-old man hopped up on amphetamines and oxycodone stabbed two men in the east valley on Monday, killing one and wounding another.
A 19-year-old man has agreed to plead guilty to DUI charges for crashing a speeding vehicle into a crowded Las Vegas restaurant while under the influence of prescription drugs, marijuana and “spice,” a synthetic form of marijuana.
The trial for a 23-year-old man charged with sexually assaulting and killing a Las Vegas woman and her daughter and nearly killing a man with a hammer in the attack in April 2012 was delayed for the second time, court records said.
Las Vegas resident Travis Doering, 40, died of a gunshot wound to the head after at least one SWAT officer fired at him on Tuesday. He had left his home in the 5700 block of Macenta Avenue, near Twain Avenue and Lindell Road, armed with a rifle.
A mental competency hearing was ordered for a North Las Vegas man accused of butchering his mother and sister, mutilating one of the bodies with a chainsaw and then living in a home with the decomposing bodies, court records show.
The operator of a large Las Vegas escort service pleaded guilty in federal court Wednesday to a felony charge of evading $230,651 in taxes.