A woman was sentenced Tuesday to up to six years behind bars after prosecutors accused her of using an 11-year-old girl as a prop while prostituting on the Strip.
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.
Scott Gragson, a prominent real estate broker indicted in a fatal DUI, pleaded not guilty Thursday to felony charges.
A bloody palm print on the corner of a Las Vegas newspaper from 22 years ago pointed to a man on trial in two killing from 1998, prosecutors said Monday.
The family of a father of five who died after suffering a punch-and-fall outside a downtown Las Vegas nightclub has filed a civil lawsuit.
A judge set bail at $250,000 on Wednesday for a 16-year-old charged in the shooting death of a 78-year-old security guard last month in the southeast Las Vegas Valley.
A federal jury this week awarded more than $3.9 million to the slot machine chain Dotty’s in a trial over the Las Vegas City Council’s 2015 failure to issue a permanent tavern license to one of its locations.
Christopher Sena leveled sexual torture on his children and other family members for a decade, prosecutors said during opening statements of his trial on Friday.
Emilio Arenas, who tortured and killed a man in an east Las Vegas apartment, was sentenced Friday to life in prison without the possibility of parole.
A Las Vegas jury on Thursday handed down what could amount to a multimillion-dollar penalty against Nevada for busing mental patients out of state without support services awaiting them.
Prosecutors should not have been allowed to show jurors photographs of the charred bodies of a cab driver and his passenger, defense attorneys for convicted killer Ammar Harris argued Monday before the Nevada Supreme Court.
The Nevada Supreme Court heard arguments Monday in the appeal of a former Clark County teacher whose sexual relationship with a student led to a kidnapping conviction.
Prosecutors dropped charges Monday against four California dentists, including three brothers, who defense attorneys said were falsely accused of raping a woman at a Las Vegas Strip hotel.
Republican attorney general candidate Craig Mueller has filed a racketeering lawsuit against opponent Wes Duncan.
A federal appellate court has ruled against a man who claimed Henderson officials improperly jailed him as a result of a political dispute.
An exciting birthday celebration in Las Vegas turned dreadful for a British tourist who fell during a David Copperfield performance on the Strip, the man told jurors Tuesday.