Shaun Leflore was acquitted Thursday of a first-degree murder charge in the 2006 death of his girlfriend. The shooting death was initially ruled a suicide.
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Two former public officials were sentenced to prison Wednesday in Las Vegas for their roles in a $1.3 million bribery scheme to sell water to the Southern Nevada Water Authority.
Las Vegas city officials are exploring the possibility of a new downtown courthouse, which would give the city’s municipal court a building of its own.
A man accused of killing an elderly woman in her home over the summer lived with one of the housekeepers who discovered the victim’s body.
Prosecutors have dismissed a murder charge against a Las Vegas man who was accused in the fatal shooting of a 28-year-old woman in the central valley last month.
A 24-year-old man was indicted this week in a fatal shooting just east of the Strip.
Ayden McKinnon, who spent his 15th and 16th birthday in the Clark County Detention Center, could spend many more in prison. Should a judge decide in January that McKinnon should serve time behind bars, she could order upward of 46 years.
Henderson City Councilman Sam Bateman announced Wednesday that he will run for a Henderson Justice Court judge position that recently became vacant.
Nevadans have a reason to know Supreme Court nominee Merrick Garland’s name beyond the highly charged U.S. Senate debate over whether his nomination should get a hearing, much less a confirmation vote.
The intentionally set flames that swallowed an east valley home mid-November claimed a second victim late Wednesday.
Dozens of federal agents led by the FBI executed search warrants in Boulder City and in the Las Vegas Valley on Thursday in an investigation of corruption in the award of a $1 million government contract for a financial audit of Hoover Dam.
The Nevada Department of Corrections said an officer was arrested for his alleged part in a scheme to smuggle drugs and cellphones into Southern Desert Correctional Center in Indian Springs.
Lakeisha Holloway, the woman accused of driving her car onto a busy Strip sidewalk Dec. 20, killing one person and injuring dozens of others, is scheduled to have her mental health evaluated.
Maryland’s highest court agreed to hear the appeals of several officers charged in connection with the death of Freddie Gray, halting all lower court proceedings for the time being, court filings showed on Thursday.
The ripples of a recent Nevada Supreme Court decision about a Carson City arrest and conviction are being felt in Southern Nevada.
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