A candidate in the Clark County district attorney’s race said that if he is elected, he will not prosecute sex workers accused of prostitution-related crimes.
Katelyn Newberg
Katelyn Newberg began covering the courts and legal affairs for the Las Vegas Review-Journal in October 2021. Following two internships, she joined the newspaper staff in 2018 as a breaking news reporter. She is a native of central Florida and a 2018 graduate of the University of Florida's College of Journalism and Communications.
A veteran criminal defense attorney is challenging a longtime judge for North Las Vegas Municipal Court Department 1 in the upcoming primary.
One of three men arrested in connection with a shooting between members of the rival Hells Angels and the Vagos Motorcycle Club filed a petition Friday to be granted a lower bail.
A prosecutor said the killing of a Hells Angels member in April may have led to Sunday’s shooting.
Seven people were indicted in the death of Tommy Wayne Kemery, 40, of Puyallup, Washington. Kemery was found Sept. 6 on Interstate 15 near mile marker 57 with multiple stab wounds, police said at the time.
Police began investigating Douglas Crawford after the DA’s office received an email stating that multiple women “would like to come forward about sexual harassment, but are scared and do not know how.”
A competency hearing has been pushed back three weeks for a student accused of beating and sexually assaulting his teacher.
After emotional testimony from the victim’s parents, a 21-year-old woman was sentenced to probation for selling the fentanyl-laced pills that killed her friend.
A man convicted of murder this week for running over and killing a teenager in 2013 during a robbery over an iPad was sentenced Wednesday to between 20 and 50 years in prison.
Former Raiders coach Jon Gruden’s lawsuit against the NFL will continue to be litigated after a Las Vegas judge on Wednesday denied a motion to dismiss the case.
A teenage girl and her boyfriend, who were accused of fatally stabbing the girl’s father, pleaded guilty Wednesday to murder and all other charges in the case.
Prosecutors argued at Michael Solid’s retrial that when he took the stand earlier this week, he lied about the events surrounding the death of Marco Arenas.
A man accused of running over and killing a teenage boy in a 2013 robbery over an iPad testified on Monday in his second murder trial.
A state senator said Friday that she is leaving her job as a Clark County prosecutor, days after two Nevada Supreme Court justices said she cannot hold both jobs simultaneously.
An officer has filed a federal lawsuit that accuses the Metropolitan Police Department of retaliating against him after he accused his supervisor of sexual harassment.