Las Vegas resident Marci Weiss died about a month after the hit-and-run crash, according to police and her obituary.
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Jurors found Cory Spurlock guilty for his role in a murder-for-hire plot in connection with the slaying of a couple.
Former Nevada prison warden Manuel Portillo is charged with attempted robbery and battery after allegedly biting a coworker’s ear at a Palace Station work event.
Ali Moussaoui was riding his motorcycle near West Tropicana Avenue and Grand Canyon Drive on Thursday when Jalen Felton, 24, who police said had stolen a Salvation Army bus, fatally struck him.
School police said in his arrest report that Nicolas Jefferson, an Improve Your Tomorrow volunteer, used a fake online persona to promise an 18-year-old student modeling opportunities and money in exchange for sexually explicit photos and acts.
A 39-year-old Pahrump resident was arrested on lewdness with a minor and child pornography charges Saturday, according to the Nye County Sheriff’s Office.
Five days after rebuffing requests from news media and a top police union official, the Metropolitan Police Department on Friday released an internal video of Sheriff Doug Gillespie opposing the district attorney’s decision to have a grand jury review a controversial deadly police shooting.
Lazareo Jones sprinted for his life. With gunfire behind him at the Rio parking garage, he ran toward the casino doors, where a group of Las Vegas police officers were waiting.
An illegal immigrant from Guatemala was given a 16-year prison sentence Friday for killing another man who had an affair with his girlfriend in Bullhead City, Ariz.
Two men who say they’re California law school students have been arrested after police say they killed and decapitated an exotic bird at the Flamingo.
CSD LLC, the entity that purchased entertainer Wayne Newton’s Casa de Shenandoah ranch in June 2010 and began renovating it into a Graceland in the desert, was placed in Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings Friday after months of legal and internal bickering among the owners.
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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.
