A 22-year-old woman who had paranoid delusions after taking drugs at the Electric Daisy Carnival died Monday after she fell from her Strip hotel room, according to her family and friends.
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A former Las Vegas real estate agent was sentenced to nearly 22 years in federal prison Friday as the mastermind of a mortgage fraud conspiracy that cost financial institutions more than $24 million.
An early morning shooting at what one neighbor described as a “drug house” left one man dead Friday morning in a yard on View Drive near Jones Boulevard.
Reno police are investigating the death of a man found inside a trash compactor where he apparently was trying to hide from law enforcement officers who were chasing him.
When Dr. Dale Carrison, chief of staff at University Medical Center, learned another physician had claimed that a 90-day jail stay would place boxer Floyd Mayweather Jr.’s health in jeopardy, Carrison said he felt embarrassment for the medical profession. Carrison said ” sanity prevailed” when a judge denied Mayweather’s request to be placed under house arrest because of “inhumane” conditions at the Clark County Detention Center.
An 18-month-old baby died after she was run over by her mother in Kingman, Ariz., on Wednesday.
The Nevada Supreme Court threw out a $3.526 million judgment Thursday against a Las Vegas restaurant on the grounds that a judge should not have excluded testimony that a patron who fell on the premises had been drinking and suffered from prior back pain.
A Las Vegas man was sentenced to a little more than 19 years in federal prison Thursday for his role in a series of armed convenience store robberies in 2010.
He slips the bank teller a note demanding money and then chats about the weather.
Las Vegas’ city-run jail could get an influx of new inmates if a proposal to lease space to North Las Vegas is adopted.
Former Henderson City Councilwoman Kathleen Vermillion has filed a defamation lawsuit against the leader of the homeless youth charity she founded, saying he lied about her and damaged her reputation. The lawsuit names the Nevada Partnership for Homeless Youth, executive director Arash Ghafoori and the charity’s board of directors as defendants.
A Las Vegas judge has denied undefeated boxing champ Floyd Mayweather Jr.’s request for house arrest in a decision released late Wednesday.