A Las Vegas pain doctor was sentenced Monday in federal court to 41 months in prison for illegally distributing fentanyl, a controlled substance.
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A police report stated that Darius Sorrells dismembered his sister’s body with a chainsaw and put her legs in his freezer.
Former Nevada Senate Majority Leader Kelvin Atkinson, who resigned earlier this year, was sentenced Thursday to 27 months in prison for misusing campaign funds.
Jarquan Tiffith, 20, is accused of killing an 11-year-old girl in a gang-related shooting that targeted the wrong house in North Las Vegas in November. A Las Vegas judge set a July 2020 trial date in the case.
The murder case against a man accused of fatally stabbing two Vietnamese tour leaders at Circus Circus last year will continue, a Las Vegas judge ruled Tuesday.
Attorneys for a man accused of breaking into Wayne Newton’s home said in closing arguments Thursday he was used as a scapegoat to close the case quickly.
A 22-year-old man faces 11 felony charges including burglary, home invasion and grand larceny in connection with two June 2018 break-ins at the Las Vegas entertainer’s southeast valley home.
Michael Onate, 2, had injuries over his entire body, including bruising, broken ribs and second-degree burns, that prosecutors said were the result of ongoing abuse.
A man whose wives were found dead eight years apart under similar circumstances was once again denied bail Wednesday in Henderson Justice Court.
Former Metropolitan Police Department officer Bret Theil, 39, was found guilty of having sexually abused a woman, now 21, from the time she was 8 until she was 19.
A Las Vegas photojournalist arrested in 2017 at a protest outside Trump International is suing the Metropolitan Police Department for violating his First Amendment rights.
A man convicted of killing two people in a DUI crash was sentenced Thursday to a minimum of 10 years in prison.
Two Las Vegas residents were sentenced to prison Wednesday for filing false tax returns in an attempt to receive millions of dollars in fraudulent refunds.
Hours before she was stabbed to death by an ex-boyfriend, Josie Jones told her daughter that her life would change soon, her daughter said during the penalty phase of the trial of Leonard Woods.
A jury deliberated for less than 20 minutes Monday before finding a Las Vegas man guilty of stabbing his ex-girlfriend to death in front of her daughter in 2015.