Highlights include a trial over the murder of Tupac Shakur, District Court elections and high-profile traffic fatality cases.
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It was a busy news year for the Las Vegas Review-Journal. With the growth the Las Vegas Valley is experiencing, it’s not expected that 2026 will be any different.
Joshua Johnson, 31, was booked into the Clark County Detention Center on Friday.
Police targeting impaired driving in Nevada made thousands of traffic stops and more than one hundred arrests statewide on Dec. 31, local and state law enforcement said.
Edward Dias is accused of fleeing the scene after hitting a woman who was walking in the roadway.
Bail was set Thursday at $500,000 for an 18-year-old accused of plowing a speeding vehicle into a crowded Las Vegas restaurant while under the influence of prescription drugs.
In an unusual act of compassion, a prosecutor Thursday asked a judge to sentence the boyfriend of the late construction defects attorney Nancy Quon to probation for his role in a failed suicide scheme involving the attorney.
A teenager facing drunken driving charges in a Southern Nevada crash that killed five members of a California family had escaped from a juvenile facility, and it’s unclear whether anyone ever went looking for him, an Orange County supervisor said Thursday.
The federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives is offering a $5,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of those responsible for the fire that destroyed the Key Largo hotel-casino March 28.
The story remains the same, but the stakes have risen by nearly a quarter of a billion dollars in the retrial of former consultant Richard Suen’s claim against Las Vegas Sands Corp.
Las Vegas police on Wednesday night arrested a woman at North Vista Hospital in connection with the stabbing of her ex-husband, who was critically wounded.
Former power broker Harvey Whittemore lost his bid Wednesday to persuade a federal judge to toss out key evidence in his illegal campaign contribution case.
The American Civil Liberties Union of Nevada is asking a federal court to declare unconstitutional a state law that calls consensual sex between two same-sex teenagers as “the infamous crime against nature” with a possible sentence of five years to life in prison.
A Las Vegas judge on Wednesday revoked the bail of ousted Nevada Assemblyman Steven Brooks due to his most recent run-in with law enforcement in California.
Dozens of residents in a Las Vegas housing project with a history of violence were “doing the wobble” and dancing to DJ Thump’s songs Tuesday evening at a party meant to “take back the community” after a weekend shooting left six people wounded, two men critically.
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Edward Dias is accused of fleeing the scene after hitting a woman who was walking in the roadway.
Adrian Bailey, 27, is being held without bail and faces two murder charges. Police said he admitted to killing his parents.
A 41-year-old man is in custody after police say he stabbed his grandmother to death at a central Las Vegas Valley residence.
The lawsuit suggested that former Metropolitan Police Department Capt. John Pelletier helped to cover up a 2018 sexual assault and that he kidnapped witnesses.
