The constable, Mark Ruesch, shot Victor Vondrasek after Vondrasek attacked maintenance worker Orlando Sosa with a large knife, police have said.
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Devyn Michaels was found guilty by a jury after a sensational trial in November. The victim was her on-and-off boyfriend.
A suspect has been arrested in connection with a sexual assault that occurred within Las Vegas, and police are seeking possible additional victims.
Police have said Tyler Johns and the victim’s stepfather were arguing before the shooting that claimed the child’s life.
A man was arrested in Oregon in connection with a shooting in the southwest Las Vegas Valley, in which a man and woman were shot at by a vehicle that was chasing them.
RENO — Investigators believe four suspects stole property in the apartment of Nevada’s chief insurance examiner before killing him and dumping his body in a river, authorities said Sunday.
A body believed to be that of Nevada’s chief insurance examiner was found Saturday in a river in Carson City, and four suspects were arrested in his disappearance, three in Las Vegas.
The methodical, sometimes repetitious review of Las Vegas Sands Corp. Chairman and CEO Sheldon Adelson’s dealings with one-time consultant Richard Suen continued Friday in Clark County District Court, punctuated by flare-ups and an examination of the Thursday incident that led to a request for a mistrial.
The woman who was captured on courtroom videotape complaining she was groped by a Family Court marshal filed a federal lawsuit Friday.
Carson City Sheriff Ken Furlong said Friday he suspects foul play in the disappearance of Nevada’s chief insurance examiner, William McCune, after evidence of a bloody, violent struggle was uncovered in his apartment.
Records show an arrest warrant was issued a week after a teen escaped from a juvenile facility — a disclosure that sheds some light on concerns that he might have slipped through the cracks before his arrest in a Southern Nevada drunken driving crash that killed five family members.
One of the state’s leading insurers, Health Plan of Nevada, “acted in bad faith regarding its obligation to provide insurance coverage” to patients, a Clark County jury found Thursday.
It took one hour of Sheldon Adelson’s testimony Thursday for the Las Vegas Sands Corp. chairman and CEO to provoke opposing attorneys to demand a mistrial.
Jason Jones was sentenced Thursday to 15 years to life in prison for the June murder of Jaime Corona. The neighbors had a running argument over property Corona stole from Jones in a burglary, police said.
Two women have been charged in a botched burglary last month in which a man was shot.
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The Henderson Police Department on Wednesday identified a man who was shot by two officers and who is accused of ramming into their police SUVs with a stolen construction vehicle.
Tavari Pearson, who previously received an eight-to-20-year suspended sentence, has been indicted in a car theft case.
Prosecutors said Tuesday that they do not plan to pursue the death penalty for a man accused of killing three people in a 12-vehicle crash.
Las Vegas police provided an update on the second officer-involved shooting in the valley, this one in the southeast.
