Several longtime judges did not move to retain their District Court seat in this year’s election by the filing deadline.
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Nearly five months after the shooting, the Metropolitan Police Department arrested Alexander Johnson, citing new evidence showed he had misrepresented the events leading up to the shooting.
Frederick Blanche pleaded guilty to murder and attempted murder charges in December and agreed to a long sentence.
Police said they received reports of a shooting in the 1800 block of Lewis Avenue. One man died at the scene and another died at a hospital.
Police investigated an incident in which a man was struck by a vehicle and a “blunt object” during an altercation in a Las Vegas neighborhood.
President Donald Trump announced that former U.S. Rep. George Santos, who pleaded guilty to federal fraud and identity theft charges, had his sentence commuted.
Six Republican defendants are accused of plotting to give Donald Trump Nevada’s electoral votes in 2020, even though Joe Biden won the state by more than 30,000 votes.
Christopher Ford, 53, was charged with one count of murder and another of attempted murder Wednesday after the shooting that happened near Torrey Pines and Vegas drives.
Three Chinese nationals and one South Korean national were arrested this week after a two-year joint federal investigation in the Las Vegas Valley.
Las Vegas police are searching for a suspect after a shooting in the central valley that left one person with “substantial injuries.”
A woman died and a man was hospitalized after the car they were in was shot at by another vehicle, causing them to be ejected in the southwest valley, police said.
One teen, accused of being a shooter, appeared before Family Judge Dee Butler in a wheelchair.
A Las Vegas man faces six felony counts following a suspected DUI crash near Blue Diamond Road and Interstate 15 that a 69-year-old woman dead
A man who died after he was pulled from a northwest Las Vegas house fire Thursday morning had been shot several times, police said.
A total of 16 lives were lost to domestic violence in 2024 in the Metropolitan Police Department’s jurisdiction, police said.
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Frederick Blanche pleaded guilty to murder and attempted murder charges in December and agreed to a long sentence.
A news release said the strike force would involve collaboration with other agencies. Attorneys offered mixed reactions.
Michael McKee, 39, was arrested Saturday by police in Rockford, Illinois, and remains in custody at the Winnebago County Justice Center, according to Winnebago County Sheriff’s Office online records.
Bryan Vargas-Caicedo previously pleaded guilty in District Court to reckless driving and, in a lower court, to misdemeanor DUI in connection with the death of 37-year-old Wesley Larsen.
