Henderson and a top city official are asking a judge to dismiss a lawsuit filed by a real estate agent who alleged he was stripped of his volunteering duties at the HPD as retaliation for speaking out in support of the city’s fired police chief.
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Jose Galan-Preval was arrested on an open murder charge after officers responded to a report of a stabbing in the 1800 block of Canosa Avenue.
The mother of a woman that Chasing Horse is accused of abusing said that the cult leader would disparage members who left, warning misfortune would befall their relatives as punishment for disobedience.
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.
When a high-ranking Arizona lawmaker was detained last weekend by Phoenix police after a roadside fight with his girlfriend, it looked like he was headed to jail. Then the state constitution swooped in and saved him. A Nevada legislator in a similar spot would not be so lucky.
Federal prosecutors have identified 75 to 100 co-conspirators, including judges, attorneys and former police officers, at various levels of a massive fraud scheme involving Las Vegas Valley homeowners associations, the Las Vegas Review-Journal has learned.
Erica Evans holds “Brother Bear,” which holds the ashes of her son, Dominique. On Friday she took the stuffed animal to court, where she spoke at the sentencing of six youths who killed her 19-year-old son in a random street robbery in 2009.
A cabdriver was shot and killed Friday morning in the east valley, and Las Vegas police are looking for two people caught on the taxi’s camera moments before he died.
Under a proposed state budget, the Spring Mountain Youth Camp at Mount Charleston would lose $1 million, requiring the closure of a dorm for 20 youths.
The streak ended at 29 days. During that period, Las Vegas police had not one investigation of a strangulation, stabbing or shooting that resulted in even one slaying making the agency’s recorded books.
A former Pahrump Valley High School student who graduated near the top of his class with dreams of becoming a hedge fund manager now faces criminal charges for hacking the school computer system and changing grades for money.
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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.
Frederick Blanche pleaded guilty to murder and attempted murder charges in December and agreed to a long sentence.
