A Nevada judge’s decision ordering a journalist to reveal confidential sources could discourage online reporters from pursuing news, media experts say.
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.
Las Vegas attorney Alexis Plunkett must remain behind bars for another week, a judge decided Friday.
In his application for a vacant judicial seat, Mark Bailus included a letter from his campaign manager that blamed the gender of his opponent, Mary Kay Holthus, for his failed election bid.
Bullets from an Arizona man charged in connection with the Route 91 Harvest festival gunman were not used in the massacre, defense lawyers wrote this week in court papers.
Former Marine Walter Laak terrorized neighbors and attacked a pastor of a Las Vegas church, prosecutors said Wednesday.
A manual details the moments leading up to Nevada’s first execution in 12 years. If it goes according to plan, Scott Dozier will be dead by 8:30 p.m. on Wednesday.
Scott Dozier’s case spent two years working through the court system, including a ruling from the Nevada Supreme Court, after he waived his appeals. Now the state is ready to kill him.
Prosecutors could pull the death penalty off the table for Gustavo Ramos-Martinez, who is accused of killing an elderly man and woman in Las Vegas more than 20 years ago.
Jurors hearing a slip-and-fall case against magician David Copperfield and MGM Grand will not visit the resort during the trial, a Las Vegas judge decided Tuesday.
As a prisoner awaits a decision on his death wish, the Nevada Supreme Court on Tuesday heard arguments on whether the state’s Department of Corrections should proceed with an untested method of lethal injection.
A Las Vegas pain doctor says he stopped treating Henderson Municipal Judge Diana Hampton two months before she died and “had nothing to do with her untimely demise.”
A teen and his mother must spend time behind bars for their roles in the fatal shooting of former Chaparral High School football player Richard Nelson, a judge ruled Thursday.
A federal judge dismissed all charges Monday against Bunkerville rancher Cliven Bundy, two of his sons and another man.