A 21-year-old man was given back-to-back life sentences Wednesday for two fatal shootings and a separate pair of shootings from 2016.
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 former Las Vegas tax preparer was sentenced Wednesday to 37 months in federal prison for aiding and assisting in the filing of false tax returns that resulted in a tax loss of more than $2.7 million.
Two suspects made their first court appearances Wednesday in connection with the fatal shooting of 11-year-old Angelina Erives.
Ted Binion’s death 20 years ago led to what has become known in Las Vegas as the “trial of the century.”
Las Vegas Review-Journal investigative reporter Jeff German wrote definitive works on the death of Ted Binion.
The Nevada attorney general’s office this week renewed its push to have the state’s high court lift a ban on one of the drugs chosen for Scott Dozier’s lethal injection.
A 28-year-old man pleaded guilty Wednesday to voluntary manslaughter for a punch-and-fall death outside a downtown Las Vegas lounge.
A Las Vegas police officer pleaded not guilty Wednesday to dozens of sexual assault and kidnapping charges involving a child.
James Melton, a veteran Metropolitan Police Department officer, faces 14 felony counts, including theft, grand larceny auto, perjury and exploitation of an older person.