In closing arguments Wednesday after seven weeks of testimony, lawyers for three people infected in Southern Nevada’s hepatitis C outbreak asked a jury to award their clients a total of $25 million in compensatory damages from three companies that knew for years that their 50-milliliter vials of propofol were being reused among multiple patients.
The lawyer representing Navy SEAL Nicholas Bickle addressed a Las Vegas jury today and accused federal agents of pursuing a criminal case against the war hero to generate publicity. Attorneys spent five hours presenting their closing arguments today, and jurors will begin deliberating Thursday.
A 20-year-old Bullhead City, Ariz., mother pleaded guilty today to second-degree murder in the death of her infant son. Staci Barbosa faces a 13-to-20-year prison term when sentenced in January for the June 2010 death of 5-week-old Matthew Vandergriff.
Miranda Du, who came to the United States in childhood as a Vietnamese refugee, took a step Tuesday toward becoming a U.S. District Court judge in Nevada. Sixteen members of Du’s family dotted the audience as she was questioned at a confirmation hearing by members of the Senate Judiciary Committee.
A 37-year-old California man was arrested Monday night at a resort on the Strip after traveling to Las Vegas with a 16-year-old girl who had been reported missing by her mother about seven hours earlier.
The defense rested its case today in the trial of a Navy SEAL Nicholas Bickle, accused of bringing weapons into the country from Iraq and conspiring with others to sell them. A fellow SEAL testified that the suggestion that a SEAL could bypass customs inspections and sneak so-called “war trophies” into the country “would be laughable if the implications weren’t so serious.”
Las Vegas police are seeking information about a bank robbery that happened near Durango Drive and Elkhorn Road late last month.
The heavyweight influence exerted by Crystals retail mall management proved decisive in gaining U.S. Bankruptcy Court approval on Monday to sell Beso restaurant to a group headed by Landry’s Restaurants for $1 million.
