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Harel Zahavi told jurors he never intended to defraud four Las Vegas casinos out of $384,000 in gambling markers. But his testimony didn’t stop a jury Wednesday from convicting him of four felony counts. He faces one to four years in prison and a maximum $5,000 fine on each count at an Oct. 27 sentencing.
Police said Tuesday that Brandon J. Hill, 22, had been charged with murder in the March 30 slaying of Michael Alano Portaro, 22, outside the Tenaya Creek Brewery. They said a cigarette tossed aside by the suspect just before the shooting contained Hill’s DNA.
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday let stand a $58 million award to three Nevada women who claimed they suffered breast cancer after taking menopause drugs.
Richard Portaro was on a business trip in Tonopah when he got a 4 a.m. call in his hotel room — his 22-year-old son had been fatally shot in Las Vegas.
An inmate who was the subject of a nationally publicized manhunt following his escape from an Arizona State Prison in Golden Valley last July was convicted and sentenced to 43 years in prison on Friday.
Las Vegas police on Friday arrested a man in connection with the slaying of a 40-year-old man this month.
An off-duty Nevada game warden who accidentally shot one more desert bighorn sheep than his tag allowed paid a $300 civil penalty and a $95 fine in a Nye County court after the state’s chief game warden enlisted the help of an independent agency to investigate the November mishap.
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