A 53-year-old Henderson man could face the death penalty after he was convicted on Wednesday of fatally beating his mother in 2009.
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The mother of the man shot by Las Vegas police late Tuesday after he flashed a handgun at officers says her her son didn’t deserve to be shot. “He’s no angel,” Barbara Sprouse said, “but he did not deserve this.” Her son, 29-year-old Jason Mahe, was shot outside a Dotty’s Casino at Rancho and Vegas drives just before midnight, police said.
Animal welfare activists are “aggressively exploring” their legal options regarding the treatment of 27 puppies that survived a Las Vegas pet store fire, said Gina Greisen, founder of Nevada Voters for Animals. “We’re just doing our best to put up a fight against a huge injustice that we believe has occurred on behalf of the puppies,” she said.
Amy Bessey, 43, was sentenced Wednesday to more than a dozen years in prison for plotting to have her estranged husband killed in a 2012 highway shooting.
A 41-year-old Utah man was sentenced to prison Wednesday in the 2013 confrontation that left a Mesquite police officer shot. District Judge Ken Cory sentenced Daniel Runyon to between 12 and 30 months in prison. With credit for jail time he’s already served, Runyon is immediately eligible for parole.
A man was arrested Tuesday afternoon in connection with a stabbing death on Monday, North Las Vegas police said.
A Native American whose image has been used to market the Hualapai Tribe’s Grand Canyon Skywalk in northwest Arizona was sentenced to a lengthy prison term Wednesday for his fifth drunken driving-related conviction.
A Southern California retiree who lost a $500,000 during Super Bowl weekend is suing the Downtown Grand for loaning him money and allowing him to play while he was blackout drunk.
The famous 27 puppies that survived a Las Vegas pet store fire will be raffled off, with tickets costing $250 each.
The Nevada Supreme Court was asked Tuesday to make it easier for citizen groups to put measures on the ballot by liberalizing existing rules limiting such proposals to a single subject.