The Metropolitan Police Department is investigating a homicide in the area of the 7200 block of Power Street.
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Two men are facing charges after Las Vegas police responded to a residence in Summerlin.
A lawyer for Carrie Cox asked a judge to dismiss a felony charge against the Henderson councilwoman for allegedly recording another councilwoman’s private conversation due to insufficient evidence.
Shiloh Walker was serving a sentence of up to six years for reckless driving, the Nevada Department of Corrections said.
A man who fatally shot his roommate at their east Las Vegas Valley home may have acted in self-defense, according to police.
District Judge Jackie Glass says her informal role of a drug court judge is what prepared her to replace Nancy Grace as host of the TV show “Swift Justice” this September, not the fact that she presided perhaps with a heavy hand over O.J. Simpson’s high-profile armed robbery trial in 2008.
A district judge has denied a claim of indigence from a Las Vegas man accused of hiring a hit man to shoot his own son over an insurance fraud and love triangle.
A Las Vegas doctor who has advocated medical marijuana therapy in the past has been charged with illegally distributing prescription drugs.
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A lawyer for Carrie Cox asked a judge to dismiss a felony charge against the Henderson councilwoman for allegedly recording another councilwoman’s private conversation due to insufficient evidence.
Assistant Sheriff Fred Haas showed body camera footage and photos during a news briefing about a Dec. 19 police shooting that left a man wounded.
Markeem Benson, 30, was pronounced dead at High Desert State Prison, authorities said.
Kenwonn Montgomery, 46, was charged with one count of open murder and two counts of assault with a deadly weapon.
