A man who “feared for his life” shot and killed a would-be robber who tried to take his cell phone and wallet at gunpoint early Saturday, Henderson police said.
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Project REAL’s former executive director now faces theft charges amid allegations that he diverted money from the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Foundation, which he also oversaw.
Florence McClure Women’s Correctional Center’s new HVAC program is the first of its kind, providing inmates vocational training that has usually been offered in men’s prisons.
The judge overseeing the case still has to rule on the admissibility of some evidence after a hearing.
Robert Telles, who was found guilty of killing RJ reporter Jeff German, has filed a motion for an evidentiary hearing to clarify several statements jurors made to the press after his trial.
Dr. Henri Wetselaar was described as both a greedy pill peddler and a gullible old man Tuesday when federal prosecutors and defense attorneys spent six hours giving closing arguments in his drug trial.
Jury selection began Tuesday in the case of a former Las Vegas kindergarten teacher accused of having a sexual relationship with a 16-year-old girl.
On deciding Javier Righetti’s punishment for the rape and murder of 15-year-old Alyssa Otremba, a prosecutor on Tuesday urged jurors to look no further than the defendant’s own words.
Lawyers claim a suspended psychologist accused of killing his wife has been funding his criminal defense and feeding his “drug-addicted lifestyle” with the nearly $2 million he collected after she died.
Two former patients at the state-run Rawson-Neal Psychiatric Hospital in Las Vegas have filed a federal lawsuit over its practice of “patient dumping” — a practice that gained notoriety in 2013.
Suspended probate lawyer Robert Graham turned over possession of a $955,000 home in Colorado to his wife just days after shutting down his Las Vegas law firm this month, property records show.
A 25-year-old man was sentenced Monday to life in prison without the possibility of parole for raping and murdering a woman behind a Las Vegas strip mall.
A Las Vegas man who admitted using sex tapes to extort a prominent, married businessman wants to avoid prison time.
Two more defendants, including one of Cliven Bundy’s sons, were ordered held without bail Monday as they await trial on felony charges stemming from the 2014 armed standoff with law enforcement near Bunkerville.
The Las Vegas man arrested in connection with the Friday shooting near the Strip that left two women dead previously faced charges of pandering, battery and child abuse.
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Two inmates at High Desert State Prison were hospitalized after a stabbing incident at the facility, a Nevada Department of Corrections spokesperson said.
One suspect is believed to have been involved in more than 20 burglaries targeting businesses and restaurants across the Las Vegas Valley, according to the Metropolitan Police Department.
Police said Patricia Sierra broke into a funeral home and removed the body of a woman for whom a viewing was held the day before the burglary.
Jesus Ayala is accused of using a stolen vehicle to strike Andreas Probst, 66, as he rode his bicycle near Centennial Parkway last year.