A pedestrian was in critical condition after being hit by a car Monday afternoon, Las Vegas police say. The collision happened just after 4 p.m. near Desert Inn Road and Maryland Parkway. The pedestrian was suffering critical injuries and was taken to Sunrise Hospital and Medical Center, police reported.
A pair of Clark County women deserve at least $60 million after developing bladder cancer from taking the diabetes drug Actos, one of their attorneys told a jury Monday. The lawyers for Delores Cipriano, 81, and Bertha Triana, 80, have said they plan to seek billions of dollars more in punitive damages from the Japan-based drug maker Takeda as the case wraps up this week.
The man charged in a fatal shooting at the Palms this past week said the gun fired accidentally, according to Las Vegas police.
The Clark County coroner’s office has identified a motorcyclist killed in Sunday’s accident in northeast Las Vegas.
A man died and a boy nearly drowned in separate weekend incidents — which included at least 15 rescues on Sunday — at Lake Mead National Recreation Area.
Experienced defense lawyers are mounting a campaign to move the upcoming federal trial of urologist Michael S. Kaplan out of Las Vegas. At issue is the mass of publicity in the civil and criminal cases of another physician, Dipak Desai.
A Utah teenager died in a single-vehicle crash late Saturday in a rural area of northern Arizona.
One person was killed Sunday in a helicopter crash at Grand Canyon. The pilot of the helicopter, the only occupant, was killed about 4 p.m. when the Eurocopter AS350 helicopter rolled onto its side at the bottom of the Grand Canyon, FAA spokesman Ian Gregor said.
The Clark County coroner’s office has identified the man shot in Thursday night’s shooting at the Palms.
North Las Vegas Judge Catherine Ramsey is waging a costly legal battle against an ex-employee and, according to public records, used a city credit card to help pay for it — a move officials say amounts to a misappropriation of public funds.
