Las Vegas police are currently investigating a fatal stabbing in the 1800 block of Canosa Avenue in downtown Las Vegas, according to a release from the department.
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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.
Both inmates came to northern Nevada prisons from Clark County.
When Judge Robert Lane announced the maximum sentence Tuesday of nearly 10 years for Joseph Patrick Lamoureux, he was implying that in the real world of today’s overcrowded prisons, minimum sentences turn out to be the maximums that many felons serve. That’s according to Nye County Chief Prosecutor Kirk Vitto. He was granted consecutive maximum terms for Lamoureux, who agreed to plead guilty to two felonies for a Sept. 19, 2008, shooting spree at Terrible’s Lakeside RV Park in Pahrump that wounded sheriff’s Deputy Eric Murphy.
Prosecutors showed jurors a photo of 4-year-old Jason Rimer during Wednesday’s opening statements in the trial of his parents, Stanley and Colleen Rimer, who are accused of second-degree murder and child abuse and neglect for leaving their disabled son in a Ford Excursion. Prosecutors argued the parents exhibited a pattern of neglect toward their eight children that was bound to lead to tragedy.
A jury on Wednesday found Wackenhut provided inadequate security at a Walmart parking lot on June 2, 2004, the night retired Air Force Maj. Michael Born was mortally wounded while changing his car’s headlight. Jurors said the security firm must pay more than $1 million in the wrongful death case in which the jury was convinced Wackenhut’s security was woefully inadequate. The same jury held the store was not liable for Born’s death.
Hopes of solving the mystery behind Cole Puffinburger’s 2008 disappearance were dashed Wednesday as prosecutors dropped all kidnapping and hostage-taking charges against two suspects, angering the boy’s father.
Holding a knife, Tory Manvilla raced back and forth through Winnie Ellis’ living room in a panic Tuesday night.
“He was yelling and screaming, ‘He’s got a gun, he’s after me,’ ” Ellis recalled Wednesday at her southeast valley home, site of the first fatal officer-involved shooting of 2011 for the Metropolitan Police Department.
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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.
