A judge set bail at $50,000 for Adolfo Orozco, the landlord of a downtown Las Vegas apartment building where six people died in a fire in December.
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The driver of a Mercedes SUV that police say fatally struck two 16-year-old Las Vegas girls Monday night has been arrested on suspicion of driving while impaired.
Prosecutors told a judge on Thursday that the suspect, Edgar Samaniego, admitted to firing his gun outside Circus Circus but said he was intending to scare off protesters.
A convicted felon from North Dakota has entered into a plea agreement after federal authorities in Las Vegas said he was caught possessing a large amount of heroin and methamphetamine.
The family of Ronald Barrett filed a lawsuit in District Court on Friday after the 82-year-old was struck and killed by an armored truck in a grocery store parking lot.
A man facing the death penalty could be freed from jail as soon as Tuesday, despite concerns about the defendant’s safety on the streets.
A jury trial has been postponed to September for a man accused of killing his attorney wife and staging her death as a suicide in January 2015.
A Las Vegas man pleaded guilty Wednesday to federal charges after he was arrested in 2012 with more than $200,000 in fraudulent tax refunds.
A man must spend up to four years in prison for fatally shooting his 19-year-old girlfriend this summer after a house party in Henderson.
A parent who paid more than $11,000 in tuition shortly before an Amargosa Valley boarding school was closed amid allegations of child abuse has sued to recoup the money.
A federal class-action lawsuit filed Oct. 27 alleges that Nevada does not provide adequate treatment for inmates with chronic hepatitis C.
The American Bar Association, the ACLU of Nevada, public defenders and law professors are all urging the Nevada Supreme Court to ban the death penalty for people who suffer from severe mental illness.
Gilbert Davila Jr., a Las Vegas man convicted of possessing child pornography, received the maximum sentence of 20 years in federal prison.
Yoandy Pou Torres, 38, admitted using counterfeit credit cards to purchase more than $382,000 worth of MasterCard gift cards at Sam’s Clubs stores in three states.
A group of prosecutors from across the country gathered to discuss gun violence in Las Vegas, not far from the site of the Oct. 1, 2017, mass shooting.