The Metropolitan Police Department is investigating a homicide in a neighborhood just south of the Arts District in downtown Las Vegas.
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Experts said District Judge Jessica Peterson’s initial restrictions amounted to an unconstitutional gag order.
Video footage from J.E. Manch Elementary School showed the aide dragging a student 30 feet down a hallway after refusing to leave a classroom, police said.
Tyler Johns, 22, is charged with murder in the Nov. 14 death of Brandon Dominguez-Chavarria.
Christian Moniz Rabino was sentenced to no more than five years’ probation after he pleaded to involuntary manslaughter in the death of Kai Tesoro.
Former attorney Lawrence Davidson, who returned to the country in September to face a slew of criminal charges, is in plea negotiations here with federal prosecutors, court documents show.
The long battle over redistricting ended Friday when lawyers for the Republican and Democratic parties accepted the election district maps prepared by a district court-appointed panel of special masters.
Two more Las Vegas men have pleaded guilty in a scheme to steal $4.4 million in state and federal unemployment benefits, U.S. Attorney Daniel Bogden said Friday.
A federal court on Friday set the schedule for a lawsuit that seeks to force the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to reopen its review of the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste site.
Las Vegas Justice of the Peace Eric Goodman set bail at $100,000 for a man charged with drunken driving after his vehicle struck and killed a 12-year-old girl while she was trick-or-treating in Summerlin on Halloween , records show.
A 28-year-old man pleaded guilty Thursday to murder and robbery charges in the beating death of an 82-year-old Henderson man in 2009.
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Antwone Washington was a coach and campus security officer before he was accused of having a sexual relationship with a student.
Edgar Flores, D-Las Vegas, was arrested on suspicion of DUI after he was found asleep at a traffic light on North Lamb and East Lake Mead boulevards at 4 a.m. on Sept. 12, according to police.
The defendant, accused of wielding a machete, was shot by a constable and appeared in court with his face bloody and bandaged.
Nathan Chasing Horse is accused of sexually assaulting multiple alleged victims. He appeared in “Dances With Wolves” as Smiles a Lot.
