A person suffered life-threatening injuries after they were intentionally struck by a vehicle near downtown Las Vegas, according to police.
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A hit-and-run suspect accused of killing a pedestrian last month in central Las Vegas was arrested Thursday, according to the Metropolitan Police Department.
A woman has sued Las Vegas police, alleging that police kept her hijab from her when she was being detained, and that she resorted to using her own bra as a covering.
Colin Czech is accused of killing a man outside a downtown convenience store and eating parts of the victim’s face, police said.
A suspect is in custody in a deadly shooting this past weekend in the northwest Las Vegas Valley.
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 family of a 60-year-old man who was killed by a Pershing County sheriff’s deputy has filed a wrongful death lawsuit in federal court.
The Innocence Center of Nevada, which announced its launch this week, is expected to start examining claims of innocence in criminal cases next month.
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Colin Czech is accused of killing a man outside a downtown convenience store and eating parts of the victim’s face, police said.
Shiva Gummi was arrested in April 2023 after he told a 911 dispatcher he had killed his wife, who was a new doctor at University Medical Center.
Nicholas Bott, 44, had been facing a felony charge of child abuse and a gross misdemeanor count of contact with a minor.
An 18-year-old was taken into custody after police said he was “doing donuts in the grass area” of a Henderson park.