The former pro basketball star didn’t want to discuss his DUI arrest during an appearance at a Las Vegas restaurant. But he said he wants Vegas to get an NBA team.
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Donors include attorneys and gaming industry entities. Some are also tied to well-known figures who have been convicted of crimes.
Henderson and a top city official are asking a judge to dismiss a lawsuit filed by a real estate agent who alleged he was stripped of his volunteering duties at the HPD as retaliation for speaking out in support of the city’s fired police chief.
Jose Galan-Preval was arrested on an open murder charge after officers responded to a report of a stabbing in the 1800 block of Canosa Avenue.
The mother of a woman that Chasing Horse is accused of abusing said that the cult leader would disparage members who left, warning misfortune would befall their relatives as punishment for disobedience.
Two married real estate agents from Henderson pleaded guilty Tuesday to bank fraud in connection with fraudulent short sales, Nevada U.S. Attorney Daniel Bogden said.
A Las Vegas man convicted of stealing jewelry and selling was sentenced Monday to two years in prison. Jeffrey Cochran, 47, pleaded guilty in July to two counts of possession and sale of stolen goods.
Three people were hospitalized after being shot in North Las Vegas Tuesday night, North Las Vegas police said.
O.J. Simpson has lost his bid for a new trial, a Clark County district judge ruled Tuesday. The Review-Journal has learned that Judge Linda Bell rejected the notorious football player’s contention that his trial lawyer in his 2007 robbery case, Yale Galanter, was ineffective, had financial and legal conflicts and misadvised the 66-year-old inmate.
A 43-year-old woman was found guilty Tuesday of plotting to have her estranged husband killed in a highway shooting last year.
A Laughlin resident is going to prison for raiding his lottery-winning father’s bank account in Bullhead City, Ariz.
Amy Bessey cried when she told a jury on Monday that her ex-husband beat her, leading to a messy divorce.
Las Vegas attorney Kristina Wildeveld says Gov. Brian Sandoval passed up on an opportunity last week to save Nevada taxpayers $1.5 million over the next four years.
CARSON CITY — A divided Nevada Supreme Court has again rejected a death-row inmate’s petition seeking to overturn his capital sentence, with the lone dissenting justice saying he was “troubled” by the majority’s conclusion in its most recent order.
Someone witnessed the fatal shooting of 23-year-old Cherish Pincombe, but investigators have no idea who. A Henderson detective testified Monday that Pincombe and her friend Colin Lowrey were using Omegle.com when he put a gun to her head and pulled the trigger.
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The complaint, filed Tuesday in federal court in Las Vegas, claims a high priest ordained within the church had raped the girl when she was 10 until she was 15.
The former “Dances with Wolves” actor is accused of sexually assaulting multiple women. Two of them spoke to jurors.
One person was killed Wednesday night after a Salvation Army bus stolen in North Las Vegas triggered a police pursuit, then ran a red light in the west valley and collided with a motorcycle, police said.
Nathan Chasing Horse is accused of targeting the Native American community and sexually assaulting multiple women.
