Highlights include a trial over the murder of Tupac Shakur, District Court elections and high-profile traffic fatality cases.
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It was a busy news year for the Las Vegas Review-Journal. With the growth the Las Vegas Valley is experiencing, it’s not expected that 2026 will be any different.
Joshua Johnson, 31, was booked into the Clark County Detention Center on Friday.
Police targeting impaired driving in Nevada made thousands of traffic stops and more than one hundred arrests statewide on Dec. 31, local and state law enforcement said.
Edward Dias is accused of fleeing the scene after hitting a woman who was walking in the roadway.
The state Supreme Court has allowed bail for the former construction chief of the College of Southern Nevada while he appeals his August 2010 conviction for stealing building material and equipment from the school to build a million-dollar home near Mount Charleston.
Two men have been arrested on murder charges stemming from a Sunday night slaying linked to gangs.
Like some scene from a Martin Scorsese movie, 208 pounds of methamphetamine covered the table, heaped high in bulging zipper bags and stacked plastic containers. A shotgun and five handguns, one with a silencer, topped the pile.
A 37-year-old Florida man accused of murder for punching another man, which authorities said led to his death at a Strip casino last week, posted $25,000 bail and was released from the Clark County jail late Tuesday.
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Edward Dias is accused of fleeing the scene after hitting a woman who was walking in the roadway.
Adrian Bailey, 27, is being held without bail and faces two murder charges. Police said he admitted to killing his parents.
A 41-year-old man is in custody after police say he stabbed his grandmother to death at a central Las Vegas Valley residence.
The lawsuit suggested that former Metropolitan Police Department Capt. John Pelletier helped to cover up a 2018 sexual assault and that he kidnapped witnesses.
