Imprisoned for a fatal Las Vegas fatal DUI, former NFL player Henry Ruggs has been transferred to Northern Nevada, where he’s in a prison work program that placed him at the Governor’s Mansion.
Crime
Las Vegas Review-Journal has the latest crime news & reports for Las Vegas. Read more for crime updates from the Las Vegas Review-Journal.
A Las Vegas judge sentenced a 24-year-old woman to between 10 and 25 years in prison Thursday for killing her 3-month-old son.
Senior U.S. District Judge Larry Hicks died after he was hit by a vehicle near the district courthouse in downtown Reno, the Reno Police Department said. He was 80.
Las Vegas police arrested three suspects they allege kidnapped a child at gunpoint and held him against his will while they demanded a ransom from his parents.
A Las Vegas woman faces a murder charge after police allege she intentionally struck her boyfriend with her car, according to court records.
A Boulder City man thought he was hearing firecrackers Sunday night, but with shouts and more pops, he knew something much more serious was happening. Later, his neighbor was dead.
Civil libertarians raised new concerns Friday over a bill sought by the Nevada Department of Corrections to make all agency records confidential following this week’s revelations that an inmate was shot and killed by a state prison guard four months ago.
By March 14, according to the Nevada parole board, 28-year-old Carlos Manuel Perez Jr.’s debt to society would have been paid. But instead of leaving High Desert State Prison a free man, he left a dead man.
An investigative report on the shooting, which went unreported to either Gov. Brian Sandoval or to the public, was sent to the state attorney general’s office Thursday.
Cued by the words “all rise,” the three judges of Nevada’s new Court of Appeals entered their Las Vegas courtroom Wednesday to hear oral arguments for the first time.
A shooting that left one inmate dead at a Southern Nevada prison last fall involved two handcuffed inmates and at least one prison guard, a lawyer for a surviving inmate said Wednesday.
Charges have been dropped against a Pahrump man who was wanted by the Nye County sheriff’s office.
A fugitive the FBI says is behind as many as 10 Nevada bank robberies has been arrested in Mississippi.
The inmate died Saturday at at the Regional Medical Facility at the Northern Nevada Correctional Center in Carson City, the Department of Corrections said Monday.
A Tonopah man was arrested Monday in connection with the sexual assault of a 3-year-old girl in 2011, the Nye County Sheriff’s office announced Monday.
Quick quiz: What’s one of the safest beverages you can drink in Southern Nevada? If your answer is “tap water,” you’re right! Southern Nevada’s municipal water supply meets or surpasses all State of Nevada and Federal Safe Drinking Water Act standards. In fact, the Southern Nevada Water Authority (SNWA) tests your water 300,000 times a […]
Senior U.S. District Judge Larry Hicks died after he was hit by a vehicle near the district courthouse in downtown Reno, the Reno Police Department said. He was 80.
Las Vegas police arrested three suspects they allege kidnapped a child at gunpoint and held him against his will while they demanded a ransom from his parents.
A Las Vegas woman faces a murder charge after police allege she intentionally struck her boyfriend with her car, according to court records.
The student’s lawyers claim he was threatened, discriminated against at UNLV, amid taunts from pro-Palestinian protesters and inaction by the administration and Board of Regents.