The Clark County coroner’s office has identified the man found dead Tuesday morning in a central valley apartment as a 33-year-old Las Vegas man.
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Frank LaPena who spent decades in prison after being convicted of being the mastermind behind the murder of a Caesars Palace executive’s wife, was granted a pardon by the state Pardons Board on Wednesday.
Two brothers were sentenced Wednesday for their roles in storming into a Lee’s Discount Liquor store in 2016 in southwest Las Vegas and gunning down a clerk.
Glenn Harris, 58, was booked into the Clark County Detention Center on a charge of murder with use of a deadly weapon.
Las Vegas police arrested a man following a fatal shooting Tuesday evening at a house in the northwest valley.
Las Vegas homicide detectives are investigating after a man was found dead with an apparent gunshot wound inside his apartment near Spencer Street and Flamingo Road.
Prosecutors announced Tuesday that they intend to seek the death penalty against a 21-year-old man accused of raping and killing UNLV student Paula Davis.
Lawyers told the high court a Washoe County grand jury had no authority to indict the suspect for two of the killings that occurred outside the county.
A Las Vegas man pleaded not guilty Tuesday in the slaying of a 24-year-old model whose body authorities said was found inside a 250-gallon water tank that had been covered with concrete and wood.
Rita Colon, who is charged in two deaths more than a decade apart, appeared in a Henderson courtroom Tuesday for the first time since being extradited from Peru.
Las Vegas police have arrested a man on a murder charge in an Oct. 23 killing in a central valley business complex parking lot.
A Las Vegas man is charged with first-degree murder in the death of a child who died years after authorities say she was violently shaken.
Prosecutors added several new charges Friday against the man accused of raping and killing UNLV student Paula Davis.
In a previously unpublicized killing, a 55-year-old Las Vegas man was fatally punched in the head in September after encountering a suspected car burglar in his driveway.
Rita Colon, who faces murder charges in connection with a 2016 Henderson stabbing and a 2005 North Las Vegas stabbing, was extradited from Peru on Thursday.