Nathan Chasing Horse, an alleged cult leader, is accused of targeting fellow Native Americans and sexually assaulting multiple women.
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The Nevada Highway Patrol is investigating a crash north of Pahrump on Wednesday morning that left a man dead and a woman in critical condition.
Sen. Edgar Flores, D-Las Vegas, was arrested in September after police found him “passed out” at a traffic light in the early morning.
Police are investigating the deaths of two people found inside a residence Wednesday morning in the southwest Las Vegas Valley.
Las Vegas resident Marci Weiss died about a month after the hit-and-run crash, according to police and her obituary.
A 20-year-old Bullhead City, Ariz., mother pleaded guilty today to second-degree murder in the death of her infant son. Staci Barbosa faces a 13-to-20-year prison term when sentenced in January for the June 2010 death of 5-week-old Matthew Vandergriff.
Miranda Du, who came to the United States in childhood as a Vietnamese refugee, took a step Tuesday toward becoming a U.S. District Court judge in Nevada. Sixteen members of Du’s family dotted the audience as she was questioned at a confirmation hearing by members of the Senate Judiciary Committee.
A 37-year-old California man was arrested Monday night at a resort on the Strip after traveling to Las Vegas with a 16-year-old girl who had been reported missing by her mother about seven hours earlier.
The defense rested its case today in the trial of a Navy SEAL Nicholas Bickle, accused of bringing weapons into the country from Iraq and conspiring with others to sell them. A fellow SEAL testified that the suggestion that a SEAL could bypass customs inspections and sneak so-called “war trophies” into the country “would be laughable if the implications weren’t so serious.”
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Police are investigating the deaths of two people found inside a residence Wednesday morning in the southwest Las Vegas Valley.
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.
