Kevin Filliger is charged with attempted murder after he was accused of breaking into a woman’s home and shooting her.
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Katelyn Newberg joined the Review-Journal's investigative team in February 2025. Following two internships, she joined the newspaper staff in 2018 as a breaking news reporter and began covering courts and legal affairs in October 2021. She is a native of central Florida and a 2018 graduate of the University of Florida's College of Journalism and Communications.
A prominent Las Vegas defense attorney and former prosecutor was arrested on charges including solicitation to commit murder and sex trafficking, court records show.
A Las Vegas judge sentenced Shayne Sussman for attacking three different casino employees in August, stabbing two of them.
Yoni Barrios entered a plea of guilty but mentally ill on Thursday, admitting to stabbing multiple people on the Strip in 2022, killing two.
The “Dances With Wolves” actor was indicted in October for the second time in Clark County on charges including sexual assault of a minor.
The Nevada Supreme Court sided with Backstreet Boys singer Nick Carter in an order filed Tuesday, allowing his counterclaim to move forward against a woman who has accused him of sexual assault.
A Las Vegas judge scheduled a trial to begin in April over a 2022 Memorial Day shooting prosecutors said was between the Hells Angels and a rival motorcycle club.
The Supreme Court ruled that the initiative, which sought to limit the percentage of fees attorneys could receive in civil cases, was “misleading and confusing.”
Duane Davis, who is also facing a murder charge in connection with the killing of Tupac Shakur, appeared in court Tuesday in a separate battery case.
Duane Davis, who is facing a murder charge in connection with the 1996 killing of Tupac Shakur, has now been charged with battery by a prisoner, court records show.
Colleagues complained about the affair the then-public administrator was having with a subordinate, but the county didn’t look at their messages during the investigation.
Oris Jones had pleaded guilty by mentally ill to a voluntary manslaughter charge for killing his 96-year-old father in July 2020.
It was the second time a mistrial has been declared for Anthony Newton, who is accused of killing and dismembering his wife’s ex-boyfriend in late 2016.
Erika Covington and Arionna Taylor were both sentenced to at least 10 years in prison for fatally shooting and robbing a man in a Caesars Palace hotel room.
Sue Fahami, the previous first assistant U.S. attorney and the former White Pine County district attorney, is now the acting U.S. attorney for Nevada.