Giovanni Ruiz had faced the death penalty and was set to go to trial later this month in the 2019 killing of 19-year-old Paula Davis.
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A man convicted of orchestrating the killing of his wife and the man he hired to kill her maintained his innocence on Thursday before he was ordered to prison for the two deaths.
Justice of the Peace Ann Zimmerman approved the order during a hearing in which Kayla Alery, 27, made a brief appearance, shackled in blue jail garb.
Duane “Keefe D” Davis made his first court appearance Wednesday morning in the killing of Tupac Shakur more than 27 years ago.
The suspect was ordered to receive treatment at a state mental health facility until he regains competency to stand trial.
The Review-Journal is seeking an emergency restraining order to preclude authorities from immediately searching the personal devices of slain reporter Jeff German.
Jeff German’s relentless pursuit of stories exemplified the kind of dogged work he practiced throughout a roughly four-decade journalism career in Las Vegas.
Miles Stano Jr., 28, and Lindsey Bello, 22, were jailed Thursday on counts of murder and child abuse following their son’s April 1 death.
Jurors found a man guilty of first-degree murder on Wednesday in the 2017 shooting death of his 14-year-old son.
For the second time, a Las Vegas man was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole in the 2011 killing of a 2-year-old boy.
Two prior court appearances for Freddy Allen, 58, were canceled after Clark County Detention Center authorities said that Allen could not be brought to court.
Kevin Osborne, 31, pleaded guilty in October to voluntary manslaughter and was sentenced Friday to a minimum of six years in prison.
A man received a prison sentence on Friday for fatally shooting a teen in the head nearly eight years ago in a dispute over graffiti.
In the past two years, Clark County prosecutors have charged eight people with murder in connection with fatal overdoses. They are part of a national trend.
A Henderson psychologist accused of killing his attorney wife in 2015 pleaded guilty on Tuesday to voluntary manslaughter.