The former pro basketball star didn’t want to discuss his DUI arrest during an appearance at a Las Vegas restaurant. But he said he wants Vegas to get an NBA team.
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Donors include attorneys and gaming industry entities. Some are also tied to well-known figures who have been convicted of crimes.
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.
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.
Bryan Yant, a narcotics detective on paid administrative leave since a June 11 drug raid led to the fatal shooting of 21-year-old Trevon Cole, has been reassigned to a desk job at the Metropolitan Police Department. A police official said an investigation concluded Yant violated several policies in connection with the shooting.
A man has died after being shot by two police officers Tuesday night. Las Vegas police Lt. Mark Reddon said the shooting occurred at 8:47 p.m. when police responded to a call about a suspect with a knife.
Child welfare workers have no record of the “pattern of neglect” that led Nye County sheriff’s detectives to arrest a Pahrump woman whose three children were killed in a Feb. 9 fire along with a family friend.
The attorney for a convicted rapist and murderer Norman “Keith” Flowers told Nevada Supreme Court justices on Tuesday his client deserves a new trial, in part because the jury heard that police and prosecutors believe he might be a serial killer.
A judge sentenced Iraq War veteran Joseph Patrick “Pat” Lamoureux on Tuesday to up to 10 years in prison for a shooting spree that left him and a Nye County sheriff’s deputy wounded. Judge Robert Lane said a public defender’s claim that the spree was sparked by Lamoureux’s bout with post-traumatic stress disorder “lacks credibility.”
Judge Gloria Navarro has ordered Cole Puffinburger brought to the courthouse Wednesday in case defense lawyers call him as a witness in the trial stemming from the boy’s 2008 kidnapping. Prosecutors have rested their case against Jose “Miguel” Lopez-Buelna and Luis Vega-Rubio, who are being tried on kidnapping and drug charges in connection with Cole’s disappearance.
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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.
