Six Republican defendants are accused of plotting to give Donald Trump Nevada’s electoral votes in 2020, even though Joe Biden won the state.
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Vaughn Griffith, a former Alexander Dawson School student, faces one felony charge in connection with an April 2025 attack involving classmates, records show.
Law enforcement leaders said they arrested one man in connection with an alleged illegal biological laboratory in the east Las Vegas Valley.
The teen’s attorney said he was agreeing to a three- to 15-year prison sentence. The victim’s family called that range unfair.
Law enforcement agencies executed a search warrant in the east Las Vegas Valley on Saturday. Federal court records argue individuals linked to the home had a history of violating FDA regulations.
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.
What was being investigated as a possible murder-suicide involving an older couple is now being called a natural death followed by a suicide, Las Vegas police said Thursday evening.
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Law enforcement leaders said they arrested one man in connection with an alleged illegal biological laboratory in the east Las Vegas Valley.
A man was shot and killed Sunday morning at a North Las Vegas business.
A jury on Friday convicted “Dances with Wolves” actor Nathan Chasing Horse in a sexual assault trial in which he was accused of targeting fellow Native Americans.
Police are investigating the deaths of two people found inside a residence Wednesday morning in the southwest Las Vegas Valley.
