Dayle Elieson, who took over Friday as interim United States attorney in Nevada, is essentially unknown in the state, and Las Vegas attorneys are perplexed by the choice.
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Thomas Benson, 56, was arrested last year on charges stemming from the alleged takeover of a bank-owned home on La Mancha Avenue in northwest Las Vegas.
Condemned killer Scott Dozier, urging his own execution, was back in front of a judge on Tuesday for the first time since he was supposed to die.
A Las Vegas man was sentenced life in prison Tuesday for the April 2012 beating deaths of a mother and her young daughter. Prosecutors wanted capital punishment.
Psychologist Gregory Brent Dennis accused of killing his attorney wife and staging her death as a suicide was indicted on a murder charge Thursday.
Recently paroled O.J. Simpson was spotted at Metropolitan Police Department headquarters in Las Vegas on Thursday afternoon.
Six co-defendants paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to director of Nevada housing nonprofit in exchange for him steering distressed properties to them, according to 14-count indictment unsealed in this week in federal court.
A Las Vegas woman serving 18 to 48 years in prison for killing six teenagers in a car crash in 2000 could be close to release following a ruling issued Thursday by the Nevada Supreme Court.
The Nevada Supreme Court on Thursday upheld the convictions and death sentences for Donte Johnson in connection with a 1988 quadruple homicide in Las Vegas.
A former Lake Tahoe children’s ski instructor pleaded guilty Tuesday to sexual exploitation of a minor.
A federal appeals court on Wednesday overturned the death sentence for Nevada prisoner Tracy Petrocelli, a three-time convicted killer.
A Las Vegas jury sentenced a 62-year-old man to death Wednesday for ordering his sixth wife dead and then killing the hit man.
Boulder City authorities on Monday refiled charges against a man who, in a federal lawsuit last week, accused the police department of falsifying a police report and altering a dashboard camera recording of his 2016 arrest.
Alexis Plunkett, a criminal defense attorney who runs her own law firm and is now facing felony charges, told a judge on Monday that she paid her lawyer more for a week’s worth of work than she paid herself all of last month.
Federal prosecutors said this week want to retry the first group of defendants in the Bunkerville standoff case before moving forward with the trial of rancher Cliven Bundy and others charged as leaders of the 2014 armed protests.
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 […]
A man was shot and killed by police after pointing a rifle at officers in a downtown Las Vegas apartment complex, according to police.
This was the Henderson Police Department’s second officer-involved shooting in 2024, officers said.
Ventriloquist Terry Fator has loaded his show at The Strat with new acts and material.
A federal website that tracks missing people has posted photos of the clothing worn by a man whose remains were found in a barrel at Lake Mead two years ago.