The names of the officers who shot and killed a man in a downtown Las Vegas apartment complex on Thursday were released Saturday.
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The Henderson police officer involved in a shooting Thursday morning has been identified.
The student, who is autistic and nonverbal, was unable to explain how he received the scratch marks after his mother noticed the apparent swastika in March 2023.
The CEO faces a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison if convicted.
The former chairman and CEO of the Henderson-based company could face prison time when a federal judge sentences him in October.
Two women who claim they were forced into sex trafficking have filed a lawsuit against Nevada officials and others over the state’s lax prostitution laws.
The courtroom was packed on Thursday when three people charged in connection with the killing of 27-year-old Roy Jaggers made their first court appearance.
The man was never charged with a crime, yet the government held on to his cash for months. Advocates say his case illustrates a broken civil asset forfeiture system.
U.S. District Judge Miranda Du wrote in her ruling that the law has “racist, nativist roots.”
Sergio Barajas, a 54-year-old from Chino Hills, California, was sentenced for a year and a day in federal prison in the bribery case.
In exchange for John Dabritz’s plea of “guilty but mentally ill,” White Pine County prosecutors have pulled capital punishment off the table.
The deal protects the defendants from prison time and reduced a long list of felony counts to a handful of charges typically reserved for minor crimes.
Samantha Moreno Rodriguez, 35, is charged in the murder of her 7-year-old son, Liam Husted.
Within days, Nevada prison officials could finalize their execution protocol and disclose the lethal injection cocktail planned for the capital punishment of Zane Floyd.
A federal appeals court said Friday the nation’s largest private prison corporation can be held liable for negligence by a man who spent almost a year in solitary confinement at a southern Nevada facility without ever seeing a judge on marijuana-related charges.
The upcoming European Parliament elections are set for June 6-9. Over 270 pro-democracy organizations, Nobel laureates and political and civic leaders—including former heads of state and government and EU leaders—have signed an open letter urging newly elected EU leaders to defend democracy. Today, the need for immediate action to defend democracy is not just a […]
The North Las Vegas Police Department provided new information about the fatal police shooting of a man tied to a four-vehicle crash.
A man arrested last year on suspicion of committing a fatal DUI, an accusation quickly dropped, has sued Nevada and the trooper who arrested him
A man was shot and killed by police after pointing a rifle at officers in a downtown Las Vegas apartment complex, according to police.
A jury returned a guilty verdict in the murder trial of a retired Metropolitan Police Department detective who killed her former son-in-law at her home in 2019.