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Nevada inmate asks judge anew to let execution proceed

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.

 
Jury spares life of Las Vegas man who killed girl, mother

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.

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7 indicted in Las Vegas in alleged foreclosure bribery scheme

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.

Nevada Supreme Court upholds death penalty conviction

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.

Boulder City refiles charges against man who sued police department

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.

Prosecutors ask to retry gunmen before Bundys go to trial

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.

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