A Las Vegas man was sentenced Wednesday to life in prison for strangling his mother in 2015.
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Defense attorneys for the Nevada man who has asked to be executed in less than two months said Wednesday they plan to formally oppose the state’s proposed fatal drug cocktail.
Las Vegas Municipal Court’s Youth Offender Court — a program focused on family treatment, substance abuse classes, community service and life skills — gives young offenders a chance for a new start.
Miguel Barraza was in a downtown Las Vegas courthouse, waiting to testify before a grand jury about accused squatter Thomas Benson, when his daughter got a phone call.
Jemar Matthews was found guilty of 12 counts, and sentenced to life in prison. His quest to overturn his conviction was unsuccessful for years — until this March, when a federal judge ruled that a prosecutor’s “plainly improper” comments ripped him of his fair trial rights and resulted in a wrongful conviction.
Jurors in the first Bunkerville standoff trial still had not reached a verdict when they concluded their fifth day of deliberations Thursday afternoon.
A judge set bail at $25,000 on Thursday for a Las Vegas fire captain accused of paying a teenage girl $300 to have sex with him inside a fire station.
A month before he killed 15-year-old Alyssa Otremba in northwest Las Vegas, Mexican police issued an arrest warrant for Javier Righetti in connection with the rape of his cousin.
Former mixed martial arts fighter War Machine shook his head Monday as a Las Vegas jury convicted him of more than two dozen charges for a vicious attack on his one-time girlfriend and another man.
Brandy Stutzman faces the death penalty for the slaying of her husband. If a jury decides on capital punishment, she would be the only woman on death row in Nevada.