Federal prosecutors throughout the West have struggled recently to win conspiracy convictions against groups of loosely organized individual rights activists who identify with an anti-government movement that is best known for staging armed protests on federally managed land.
Lawyers for a former New York hedge fund manager who was attacked by security officers at a Cosmopolitan nightclub reached a undisclosed settlement agreement Friday, essentially wiping out a $160.5 milllion verdict returned earlier this week.
Angela Walker, 45, of Caliente was sentenced to one to three years in prison and ordered to pay restitution of about $1.5 million.
A New York City hedge fund manager who sued the Marquee nightclub after he was attacked by a manager and security officers won a $160.5 million jury verdict this week.
A 15-year-old boy charged in the gang rape of a 14-year-old special education student will be prosecuted in the adult justice system, a Clark County Family Court judge ruled Wednesday.
Former Family Court Judge Steven Jones, who used his office to inject credibility into a multimillion-dollar investment fraud scheme, has been released from prison.
A Las Vegas judge denied a request to reduce the $8 million bail for an MIT graduate prosecutors say committed terrorism and other crimes.
A federal judge declared a mistrial Monday in the first Bunkerville standoff case, which targeted six men accused of conspiring with rancher Cliven Bundy to derail a court-ordered cattle seizure in 2014.
Goodsprings residents rallied Saturday in support of longtime judge Dawn Haviland, who is suspended with pay after state disciplinary investigators slapped her with a laundry list of ethics charges.
