Two male students from Greenspun Junior High School allege they were sexually, physically and verbally harassed by other students for months because of their “perceived sexual orientation,” but received little help from school officials, according to a lawsuit filed Tuesday against the School District in Clark County District Court.
Defense lawyers launched an opening-day offensive on Tuesday attacking the government’s chief witness in the federal trial of three Cuban immigrants charged with stealing drugs and high-quality merchandise from delivery vans and warehouses around the Las Vegas Valley. The witness, Yordani Corona Del Toro, a 23-year-old felon and “gang-banger,” struck a deal with federal prosecutors in the case to escape a sentence of life in prison in Nevada as a habitual criminal, the defense lawyers said in their opening statements.
A woman was sentenced Tuesday to six months in jail and five years of probation for trying to hire two men, including an undercover Las Vegas police officer, to kill her husband.
A woman accused in a road-rage shooting on the Strip in December was sentenced Monday to eight to 20 years in prison, according to District Court records.
A Nye County sheriff’s detective has been placed on administrative leave after an investigation was opened into last week’s arrest of one of his superiors and a longtime sheriff’s volunteer accused of removing political signs from private property.
The Metropolitan Police Department’s team that investigates officer involved shootings now will investigate inmate deaths.
A Metro police officer was hospitalized with what the police department described as non-life threatening injuries after a collision near downtown Las Vegas Monday afternoon.
A North Las Vegas man accused of butchering his mother and sister, mutilating one of the bodies with a chainsaw and then living in a home with the decomposing bodies was indicted by a grand jury on murder charges, court records show.
A Las Vegas judge is considering a request to punish lawyers for engaging in misconduct during an ongoing civil trial in her courtroom.
Six people were convicted earlier this month of racketeering and other charges for enticing men into forking over large sums of money believing they were paying for sex.
