A teenager accused of mowing down a retired police chief in a fatal hit-and-run last month told police he thought he would receive a “slap on the wrist,” according to an arrest report.
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Travis Doss and Amanda Stamper face dozens of child abuse charges between the two of them after police found two children in their apartment locked in a dog cage.
Robert Telles has been charged with fatally stabbing Las Vegas Review-Journal investigative reporter Jeff German in September.
Carlos Manuel Perez Jr., 28, died on Nov. 12, 2014, while he was serving an 18- to 48-month sentence for battery at High Desert State Prison, in Indian Springs.
Andrea Robles, 43, died at the crash scene after she became trapped inside her burning vehicle.
A 49-year-old man was sentenced to prison on Tuesday for his role in the 2019 killing of a model whose body was found in the desert encased in concrete.
A judge has sanctioned Justin Jones for being untruthful about deleting relevant text messages from his phone in a lawsuit over a development atop Blue Diamond Hill.
Pastor Bramwell Retana had pleaded guilty to sexually abusing girls in his congregation.
A preliminary hearing in the fatal DUI case against former Raiders player Henry Ruggs was put off Wednesday because of a dispute over the presiding judge in Las Vegas Justice Court.
A judge has rejected a motion from the Las Vegas Review-Journal calling for sanctions on the Metropolitan Police Department over how investigators searched the cellphone of slain reporter Jeff German.
A Las Vegas man has been sentenced to five years in prison and ordered to pay more than $2.5 million in restitution for bilking the government out of millions of dollars.
Clarence Meekins, 36, is accused of manufacturing firearms without a license, among other charges.
Curtis Oneal Smith, 40, is charged with attempted murder and battery with use of a deadly weapon.
A man pleaded guilty to a murder charge on Thursday for stabbing his cellmate 96 times with a plastic “shank” in High Desert State Prison.
A former gymnastics coach was sentenced to a maximum of eight years in prison after pleading guilty in Las Vegas to lewdness and child abuse charges.