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SPECIAL INVESTIGATION: Las Vegas drug convictions rely on faulty police field tests

Even as they continue to employ field drug tests to secure arrests and gain convictions, neither the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department nor the Clark County district attorney’s office has informed local judges of the long-standing knowledge of their unreliability.

 
Trial opens for man accused of stabbing estranged pregnant girlfriend to death

Eric Covington stabbed his estranged girlfriend, Sagittarius Gomez, more than 120 times over the course of an hour because he did not want her to be with another man, prosecutors said Friday during opening statements of his death penalty trial.

 
Man gets life in prison without parole for slaying of Nellis airman

A 38-year-old man was ordered to spend the rest of his life behind bars without the possibility of parole on Tuesday for his role in the slaying of a Nellis airman gunned down in the garage of his home.