Prosecutors painted a picture of a predator during opening statements Thursday in the capital murder trial of Javier Righetti for the 2011 rape and killing of 15-year-old Alyssa Otremba.
A Kingman, Arizona, man was sentenced Thursday to 13 years in prison for using a hatchet to kill a man he was trying to evict from his property.
After two homeless men were killed in similar incidents earlier this year, Las Vegas police said they were forced to look beyond traditional investigative techniques to find a suspect.
A Nevada death row inmate will get a second chance to show that his 1996 double-murder conviction was tainted because the trial judge was under investigation at the time for allegedly taking bribes, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled on Monday.
The fatal shooting of a Las Vegas man in the central valley Saturday night was ruled a homicide on Monday by the Clark County coroner.
The man found dead with a gunshot wound to the head Friday night in the east valley has been identified.
A man shot Saturday evening in the central valley has died from his injuries.
Detectives believe drugs may have been involved in an east valley homicide that happened Friday night.
Police were called to the area of Triest Court, near Bonanza and Sandhill roads, about 9:20 p.m. after reports of four to five gunshots. One male was shot in the head and found dead at the scene.
Edgar Umanzor, 31, was arrested in Arizona and extradited to Nevada, where he was booked Thursday into the Clark County Detention center on one count of open murder.
A mannequin, covered with blankets and positioned to resemble a homeless person sleeping on the sidewalk, was attacked with a hammer near downtown Las Vegas.
The suspect in a Las Vegas woman’s 1991 death is scheduled to appear in court for a preliminary hearing on March 20.
The Clark County coroner has determined that “homicidal violence” caused the death of a man whose body was found burned and dismembered in the east valley in December.
A man was charged this week in the April killing of construction site security guard Mark Santee, who was shot several times in the head while trying to thwart a robbery, police said. The killing was believed to be random.
A Lake Havasu City, Arizona, woman has been sentenced to 100 days in jail after pleading guilty to negligent homicide in the accidental bathtub drowning death of her young grandson.