An Idaho man who served prison time for his role in the 2014 Bunkerville standoff before charges against him were thrown out has sued the federal government for $100 million.
David Ferrara

Before being named assistant city editor in September 2021, David covered courts and legal affairs for the Review-Journal. He joined the newspaper in 2014 after more than six years reporting in the Deep South, where he wrote extensively about the BP oil spill. Prior to that, he worked for newspapers, magazines and a wire service in Chicago. He is a graduate of Southern Illinois University in Carbondale.
A judge has dismissed a murder charge against a Las Vegas woman accused of driving over her boyfriend and killing him.
Nevada Supreme Court justices heard arguments Thursday on whether prosecutors should be allowed to serve in the state Legislature without violating the constitution.
A 29-year-old man was ordered to serve up to 25 years behind bars Wednesday for a central Las Vegas killing.
Investigators used records from social media, a rental truck and the victim’s phone to tie a Henderson man to the death of his missing girlfriend, court documents show.
Cheryl Beardall, 34, was last seen alive in July 2020, but her body has never been found.
A Las Vegas man linked to anti-government activist Ammon Bundy was indicted Wednesday on federal weapons charges.
A 37-year-old man pleaded guilty Wednesday in Las Vegas to second-degree murder in the death of his girlfriend’s 16-month-old son.
Prosecutors said Friday that they plan to seek capital punishment for a man charged in a three-day string of crimes that left three people dead.
A Henderson woman charged with drowning her two young children wrote that she faced “suspension or dismissal” as a Department of Family Services worker before the killings.
A Henderson mother gave authorities “excruciating detail” about how she drowned her two young children, a prosecutor said Friday after the woman was indicted.
Alonso Perez, 29, agreed to plead guilty to the murder charges and other crimes in exchange for prosecutors dropping their efforts to seek the death penalty.
Lawyers for 51-year-old Jasmin Alic allege in a lawsuit that a dentist removed almost all of his teeth and performed work on him that was meant for another patient.
Longtime Las Vegas attorney Daniel Bunin died this week while swimming off the coast of Hawaii. He was 55.
A federal jury convicted a member of the Fort McDermitt Shoshone Paiute Tribe of two counts of murder Tuesday in the slaying of two women in Indian Country.




