Champion boxer Floyd Mayweather Jr. was arrested on a battery charge just before midnight Thursday at a Strip casino, Las Vegas police said.
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A former Walmart assistant manager was arrested earlier this week accused of stealing about $250,000 worth of merchandise from his store and selling the items over the Internet, Henderson police said Thursday.
The Metropolitan Police Department paid $1,000 to settle a civil rights lawsuit filed by a man who claimed a prejudicial photo lineup caused witnesses to identify him as a robber.
A 23-year-old man was sentenced Thursday to 26 years to life in prison for the August 2008 slaying of a man outside the Fort Cheyenne Casino in North Las Vegas.
A murder charge has been dropped against a 53-year-old man arrested Sunday in the death of his roommate, according to Las Vegas police.
One man died after a shooting Wednesday night at a northeast valley Chuck E. Cheese’s pizzeria, Las Vegas police said.
An unprecedented $500 million jury verdict rendered against two pharmaceutical companies in May was good enough to land Clark County on a pro-business organization’s list of “judicial hellholes” in America.
Attorneys for Wyeth Pharmaceuticals are requesting a rehearing of a Nevada Supreme Court opinion that upheld an $80.7 million award to three women who allegedly contracted breast cancer after taking a hormone drug.
Timothy Hobbs last year was sentenced to 10 to 25 years in prison after he spit in his ex-girlfriend’s face. A Nevada Supreme Court panel heard oral arguments Tuesday over whether spitting meets the state’s definition of a battery and if prosecutors failed to establish Hobbs’ criminal history.