Former Nevada prison warden Manuel Portillo is charged with attempted robbery and battery after allegedly biting a coworker’s ear at a Palace Station work event.
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Ali Moussaoui was riding his motorcycle near West Tropicana Avenue and Grand Canyon Drive on Thursday when Jalen Felton, 24, who police said had stolen a Salvation Army bus, fatally struck him.
School police said in his arrest report that Nicolas Jefferson, an Improve Your Tomorrow volunteer, used a fake online persona to promise an 18-year-old student modeling opportunities and money in exchange for sexually explicit photos and acts.
District Judge Jessica Peterson barred Review-Journal reporters from witnessing an alleged victim’s testimony during Nathan Chasing Horse’s sexual assault trial last week.
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.
Officers on patrol with the Metropolitan Police Department will soon be featured on a television show on the independent television network Reelz.
The Supreme Court ruled that the initiative, which sought to limit the percentage of fees attorneys could receive in civil cases, was “misleading and confusing.”
Metropolitan Police Department officer Cesar Ibarra, 48, was at home during his day off when he and his wife heard a “commotion” from his neighbor’s backyard, police said.
A 27-year-old man suspected in a deadly shooting late December in the Historic Westside has been apprehended.
The shooting, which killed a woman and injured a man, occurred about 4:45 p.m. Dec. 8 in the 3800 block of Soda Springs, near Las Vegas Boulevard North and North Pecos Road.
Sentencing was delayed for people accused of kidnapping a child at gunpoint and demanding ransom after one of the defendants decided he might be innocent.
Duane Davis, who is also facing a murder charge in connection with the killing of Tupac Shakur, appeared in court Tuesday in a separate battery case.
A driver was injured in a shooting that North Las Vegas police believe may have stemmed from a road-rage incident.
The 2,900-square-foot home at issue is worth nearly $1 million, Simpson’s attorney said. Simpson died in Las Vegas in April.
The affluent, multigated Red Rock Country Club in Summerlin experienced multiple car break-ins last week, according to an email sent to residents.
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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.
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.
