A Las Vegas psychiatric hospital at the center of a lawsuit over the death of a 6-year-old boy disputes a claim that the child’s mother was treated at the facility.
David Ferrara
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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.
Johnny Brooks, the only surviving victim in a double homicide, is locked up in a Las Vegas jail because he didn’t show up to testify in a death penalty trial for the man who shot him.
A man pleaded guilty Monday to a federal weapons charge for planning violent attacks against the Anti-Defamation League, a Las Vegas synagogue and a Fremont Street bar.
Lawyers for real estate broker Scott Gragson, charged in a DUI crash that left a woman dead and others injured, want his blood alcohol test thrown out.
Defense attorneys for Kody Harlan and Jaiden Caruso are seeking a new trial in the shooting death of 17-year-old Matthew Minkler.
A Metropolitan Police Department lieutenant deceived an elderly couple out of hundreds of thousands of dollars, prosecutors told jurors Tuesday.
Cierre Wood, 28, and the girl’s mother, Amy Taylor, 26, both face a charge of first-degree murder along with 20 counts of child abuse.
A man who posted a video online showing him attacking a dog was sentenced Monday to 5 to 13 years behind bars.
Prosecutors say Cristina Guadalupe Moya fatally stabbed her 2-year-old son then tried to kill herself because she was distraught over a breakup with the boy’s father.
The mother of a 31-year-old man killed by Las Vegas police in a hospital emergency room has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against Metropolitan Police Department.
A lawyer for Cliven Bundy said Wednesday that he plans to appeal a judge’s decision to throw out a lawsuit in which the Southern Nevada rancher sought to declare all public lands a part of the state.
A judge on Thursday issued a stern lecture to Las Vegas attorney Alexis Plunkett, who sent text messages that claimed she put prison hits out on her former boyfriend, but refused to send her to jail.
A Las Vegas doctor with ties to Henderson judge Diana Hampton, who died of a drug overdose, pleaded guilty in federal court Monday to distribution of a controlled substance.
A man charged in the death of a 1-year-old boy was indicted Wednesday on additional charges after prosecutors accused him of scuffling with officers at the Clark County Detention Center.
The Nevada Department of Corrections will not have to turn over the name of a physician who had been scheduled to oversee the execution of Scott Dozier, despite a court ruling last week.
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