The cause of death for Markeem Benson, 30, was hanging, according to a spokesperson for the office.
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A 41-year-old man is in custody after police say he stabbed his grandmother to death at a central Las Vegas Valley residence.
Chad Ollinger appeared briefly in Justice Court on Tuesday morning after the discovery on Friday of Christopher Kelly’s death in the Clark County Detention Center.
Nevada Attorney General Aaron Ford announced a court order blocking the Trump administration from imposing unlawful conditions on two federal emergency grants.
The lawsuit suggested that former Metropolitan Police Department Capt. John Pelletier helped to cover up a 2018 sexual assault and that he kidnapped witnesses.
A 55-year-old man who hoped to be killed by Henderson police the day after Christmas 2011 was sentenced to 12 to 32 months in prison earlier this week.
In a family squabble over money, Susan Greenspun Fine has sued her brother, Las Vegas Sun Publisher Brian Greenspun, to collect an unpaid $2 million loan.
A man was found fatally shot inside an east valley apartment late Wednesday night, Las Vegas police said Thursday.
District Attorney Steve Wolfson said Thursday that the Las Vegas police officers involved in Gibson’s 2011 death would not face criminal charges. Gibson, 43, was shot and killed when officer Jesus Arevalo fired seven shots from his AR-15 rifle into Gibson’s Cadillac during a standoff.
Prosecutors in Nevada said they’re awaiting the return of a self-described pimp who is jailed in California after a Strip shooting and fiery crash that killed three people.
A traffic ticket-fixing lawyer known for his pink house was arrested after bringing a handgun into the Regional Justice Center earlier this week.
The owners of several Super Liquor stores have been indicted by a federal grand jury in a tax evasion scheme authorities say hid $4 million in gross receipts from the Internal Revenue Service.
A California juvenile detention escapee had a blood-alcohol percentage of 0.12 percent — well above the Nevada legal limit of 0.08 percent — after a freeway crash that killed five Southern California family members and injured two others near Mesquite, prosecutors said Wednesday.
It has been more than three years since Evie Oquendo’s 15-year-old son was killed by a Las Vegas police officer, but the painful memories linger.
Jose Guzman has a pile of medical bills and he’s missed a week of work, but as he recounts what happened when a car plowed into the Egg & I restaurant on April 1, he doesn’t talk about his pain. He talks about his family’s gratitude for how they have been treated.
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Metro Lt. Robert Price said a man was shot and killed during an argument with an group of people who then fled the scene. Their whereabouts are currently unknown, Price said.
A son killed both his mother and father in the east Las Vegas Valley according to a release from the Metropolitan Police Department.
An imprisoned Discovery Channel reality show star faces a murder charge after his cellmate was found dead following a fight at the Clark County Detention Center on Friday, police said.
Police say a man stabbed a woman to death before killing himself with a self-inflicted gunshot wound Friday night at a residence in the southwest Las Vegas Valley.
