A man charged with child abuse or neglect in connection with the shooting death of his 2-year-old son claims he was asleep at the time and immediately tried to render aid after he heard the gun blast.
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Bryan Clay, convicted of raping and murdering a mother and her young daughter in 2012, took the witness stand Monday morning with a statement, ready to ask jurors to spare his life.
A gunman and his getaway driver pleaded guilty Friday in the fatal shooting of 44-year-old mother Tammy Meyers.
The former emergency manager for the city of Flint — who was at the helm when polluted water began flowing through the taps — claims he did not know the water was dangerous.
Las Vegas police Monday outlined a handful of missteps, including miscommunication from the U.S. Marshals Office, that led up to the moment two Metro officers shot and killed an unarmed fugitive holding a cell phone in front of a west valley home on New Year’s Eve.
A judge sentenced Ammar Harris to death Monday for killing three people and injuring another on the Strip. Harris was also sentenced to 16 to 40 years in prison on related charges.
Ammar Harris was sentenced to death Wednesday for each of the three people he killed on the Las Vegas Strip.
Jerad and Amanda Miller were defiant until the very end. Cornered after slaying three people and expecting their own deaths, the couple kept up the police-hating rhetoric investigators would later find immortalized in a self-glorifying shrine.
A second civil rights lawsuit has been filed by survivors of an inmate who died after a 2013 struggle with officers at the Clark County Detention Center.
A Las Vegas police officer shot before daylight Friday came through surgery fine, Sheriff Joseph Lombardo said, but one man’s wound leaves a mark on the whole department.
One of three adults charged with videotaping sexual attacks on several children in Las Vegas was sentenced Thursday to life in prison.
Baltimore’s top prosecutor plans to seek a protective order that would block the release of Freddie Gray’s autopsy report and other documents as she prosecutes police over his arrest, the Baltimore Sun reported on Thursday.
On three separate days, the 55-year-old man was seen on a surveillance camera molesting and assaulting “very small” children on the back of a bus, Las Vegas police said.
Raisat Suleimanov remembers her cousin — convicted Boston bomber Dzhokhar “Jahar” Tsarnaev — as a sweet boy with a big smile who wept when Mufasa, Simba’s father in the animated movie, “The Lion King,” is killed by Scar, his evil brother.
Las Vegas police said a suicidal man is responsible for killing three people before shooting himself Tuesday night.