A Las Vegas man was sentenced life in prison Tuesday for the April 2012 beating deaths of a mother and her young daughter. Prosecutors wanted capital punishment.
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A Las Vegas jury sentenced a 62-year-old man to death Wednesday for ordering his sixth wife dead and then killing the hit man.
Alexis Plunkett, a criminal defense attorney who runs her own law firm and is now facing felony charges, told a judge on Monday that she paid her lawyer more for a week’s worth of work than she paid herself all of last month.
Former mixed martial arts fighter War Machine was ordered to serve 36 years to life behind bars Monday after being convicted of more than two dozen charges, including sexual assault and first-degree kidnapping.
ISIS on Saturday hailed the two people who massacred 14 people in Southern California this week as “supporters” of the terror group — a message that came after U.S. investigators said they suspect one of the shooters professed loyalty to the Islamist network.
The male student killed by campus police after he stabbed four people at University of California, Merced, has been identified as freshman Faisal Mohammad, school officials said Thursday.
It’s been nearly eight months since Tammy Meyers, a 44-year-old mother of four, was gunned down in front of the family’s northwest valley driveway.
The capital murder trial of James Eagan Holmes has, for more than a week, been taking a jury inside the “broken” mind of a young man who really didn’t like other people. Prosecutors say Holmes should pay with his life for the killings of eight men, three women and a little girl at a Colorado movie theater nearly three years ago.
Just days after “Crazy Girls” wrapped its 28-year run at the now-closed Riviera, more than $200,000 worth of the show’s lingerie, stage clothes, computers and lights have been reported stolen.
An Ohio trio wanted in a multiple-state armed robbery spree — one of them in a double slaying committed in Ohio — were captured Thursday in northwest Arizona.
John Bonaventura is still fighting to remain the Las Vegas Township constable even though his job and his office ceased to exist over the weekend.
A 26-year Metro veteran, Joseph M. Lombardo kept his speech concise and lighthearted Monday as he was sworn in as the seventh sheriff of Clark County since the formation of the Metropolitan Police Department.
Derrick Valentine was sentenced Friday to 30 years to life in prison for the rape and strangulation of 35-year-old Melodie Walker, an employee with the Metro Police Department.
The mother of the man shot by Las Vegas police late Tuesday after he flashed a handgun at officers says her her son didn’t deserve to be shot. “He’s no angel,” Barbara Sprouse said, “but he did not deserve this.” Her son, 29-year-old Jason Mahe, was shot outside a Dotty’s Casino at Rancho and Vegas drives just before midnight, police said.
A judge on Wednesday ordered a Texas teenager who was sentenced to 10 years’ probation in a drunken-driving crash that killed four people to go to a rehabilitation facility paid for by his parents.
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