A man serving a life sentence for murder in Arkansas was booked Monday into the Clark County Detention Center on an additional murder charge in a case from 1991.
The man who died Sunday from a gunshot wound he suffered earlier in February has been identified as 21-year-old Edgar Contreras of Las Vegas.
A man shot earlier this month in the northeast valley died from his injuries Monday.
The judge has scheduled a weeklong preliminary hearing in the murder case against suspended psychologist Brent Dennis, who is accused of killing his wife, attorney Susan Winters.
The Clark County coroner has identified the man killed in Tuesday night’s fatal shooting as Kwame Banks of Las Vegas.
A judge on Thursday afternoon found Javier Righetti, charged with killing a 15-year-old girl, mentally capable of facing the death penalty.
Lawyers for Javier Righetti say he suffers from an intellectual disability and should not face the death penalty for the rape and killing of a 15-year-old Arbor View High School freshman.
Bullhead City police on Wednesday reported three arrests in the killing of a bicyclist in Bullhead City, Arizona.
Lawyers for Kirstin Lobato, a woman serving a lengthy prison sentence for a killing she claims she did not commit, have asked for an analysis from the Clark County District Attorney’s Office newly formed conviction review unit.
Three teenagers appeared in Las Vegas Justice Court on Wednesday to face murder charges more than two years after a 41-year-old woman was killed.
One man died after a shooting late Tuesday night at a northwest valley apartment complex.
Lawyers claim a suspended psychologist accused of killing his wife has been funding his criminal defense and feeding his “drug-addicted lifestyle” with the nearly $2 million he collected after she died.
“It’s just been a rough year,” Principal Travis Warnick told the Las Vegas Review-Journal on Tuesday. “Thankfully we’re a pretty tightknit family, and we’ve leaned on each other to get through.”
Arrest records indicate that a teenage girl recruited two friends to help her kill her mother, whose body was found in the desert between Lake Mead and Las Vegas.
A woman has surrendered to police in connection with the shooting death of a man in the west valley last week.