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.
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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.
District Judge Jessica Peterson barred Review-Journal reporters from witnessing an alleged victim’s testimony during Nathan Chasing Horse’s sexual assault trial last week.
The former pro basketball star didn’t want to discuss his DUI arrest during an appearance at a Las Vegas restaurant. But he said he wants Vegas to get an NBA team.
Donors include attorneys and gaming industry entities. Some are also tied to well-known figures who have been convicted of crimes.
A jury spent Tuesday listening to secretly recorded firearms sales, but one voice was absent from the recordings: Navy SEAL Nicholas Bickle. Prosecutors claim Bickle smuggled machine guns, other weapons and explosives into the country from the Middle East. Three other defendants, including two Las Vegas men, accepted plea bargains.
Prosecutors will seek the death penalty for one of three people charged with the July slaying of 68-year-old Katherine Cole. Cole’s daughter, Autumn Cole, 44, was one of the defendants spared a possible death sentence.
Instead, prosecutors will seek capital punishment for Joseph Perez, 45, the person authorities believe strangled Katherine Cole with a pillowcase.
A report released Tuesday by the nonprofit Violence Policy Center says Nevada had the highest rate of domestic violence killings of men against women in the nation. Nevada’s rate of homicides per 100,000 people was 2.7. Alabama was second with a rate of 2.64 per 100,000 people.
Without much discussion, the County Commission unanimously approved Tuesday a $225,000 settlement with Roshunda Abney, who didn’t know she was pregnant when she unsuccessfully tried to get treatment at University Medical Center in 2009. The agreement was dated Sept. 9.
The government’s crackdown on Internet poker ensnared two of the game’s best-known superstars Tuesday while a prosecutor accused one website of being a “massive ponzi scheme,” defrauding players of more than $443 million. Poker professionals Howard Lederer and Chris Ferguson were added as defendants in a civil money laundering complaint against online gaming company FullTilt Poker, saying the players and executives funneled money to their own accounts, rendering FullTilt insolvent.
If Paris Hilton can make it to about 7:30 a.m. Tuesday without getting arrested, her current Las Vegas legal woes will be over. Barring a midnight malfeasance, the hotel heiress’s one-year probation is up.
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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.
