Nearly five months after the shooting, the Metropolitan Police Department arrested Alexander Johnson, citing new evidence showed he had misrepresented the events leading up to the shooting.
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Frederick Blanche pleaded guilty to murder and attempted murder charges in December and agreed to a long sentence.
Police said they received reports of a shooting in the 1800 block of Lewis Avenue. One man died at the scene and another died at a hospital.
Police investigated an incident in which a man was struck by a vehicle and a “blunt object” during an altercation in a Las Vegas neighborhood.
Emmy Award-winning actor Timothy Busfield was ordered held without bond at his first court appearance Wednesday, a day after turning himself in to face charges of child sex abuseBusfield has vowed to fight the charges.
Embattled Las Vegas Constable John Bonaventura will not face drunken driving charges, Clark County’s top prosecutor said Friday.
The 50-year-old blackjack dealer accused of killing her fiance’s 10-year-old daughter has been indicted by a grand jury.
State officials have initiated a routine background check to determine whether troubled Assemblyman Steven Brooks can purchase a rifle from a Northern Nevada sporting goods store.
Police are investigating a fatal shooting in an alley not far from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas campus.
A former manager of a shelter for abused women charged with coercing a woman for sex last year was found dead in a vehicle on a highway Thursday.
WASHINGTON — The Justice Department has joined a lawsuit against disgraced cyclist Lance Armstrong that alleges the former, seven-time Tour de France champion concealed his use of performance-enhancing drugs and defrauded his long-time sponsor, the U.S. Postal Service, Armstrong’s lawyers said Friday.
GOLDEN, Colo. — An 18-year-old accused of kidnapping and killing a suburban Denver school girl was on investigators’ radar before his mother called to turn him in last fall, a detective testified Friday.
Thursday’s deadly shooting and car crash on the Strip that left three people dead is just the latest in a rash of violent incidents in the iconic resort corridor in recent months.
A Las Vegas man on Thursday was sentenced to 44 years to life in prison for fatally shooting his friend and robbing him of his toys last year.
A Mohave County corrections officer who pleaded guilty to sexually coercing a female inmate was indicted in a similar case involving another female inmate.
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A news release said the strike force would involve collaboration with other agencies. Attorneys offered mixed reactions.
Michael McKee, 39, was arrested Saturday by police in Rockford, Illinois, and remains in custody at the Winnebago County Justice Center, according to Winnebago County Sheriff’s Office online records.
Bryan Vargas-Caicedo previously pleaded guilty in District Court to reckless driving and, in a lower court, to misdemeanor DUI in connection with the death of 37-year-old Wesley Larsen.
Christian Moniz Rabino was sentenced to no more than five years’ probation after he pleaded to involuntary manslaughter in the death of Kai Tesoro.
