A jury spent Tuesday listening to secretly recorded firearms sales, but one voice was absent from the recordings: Navy SEAL Nicholas Bickle. Prosecutors claim Bickle smuggled machine guns, other weapons and explosives into the country from the Middle East. Three other defendants, including two Las Vegas men, accepted plea bargains.
Prosecutors will seek the death penalty for one of three people charged with the July slaying of 68-year-old Katherine Cole. Cole’s daughter, Autumn Cole, 44, was one of the defendants spared a possible death sentence.
Instead, prosecutors will seek capital punishment for Joseph Perez, 45, the person authorities believe strangled Katherine Cole with a pillowcase.
A report released Tuesday by the nonprofit Violence Policy Center says Nevada had the highest rate of domestic violence killings of men against women in the nation. Nevada’s rate of homicides per 100,000 people was 2.7. Alabama was second with a rate of 2.64 per 100,000 people.
Without much discussion, the County Commission unanimously approved Tuesday a $225,000 settlement with Roshunda Abney, who didn’t know she was pregnant when she unsuccessfully tried to get treatment at University Medical Center in 2009. The agreement was dated Sept. 9.
The government’s crackdown on Internet poker ensnared two of the game’s best-known superstars Tuesday while a prosecutor accused one website of being a “massive ponzi scheme,” defrauding players of more than $443 million. Poker professionals Howard Lederer and Chris Ferguson were added as defendants in a civil money laundering complaint against online gaming company FullTilt Poker, saying the players and executives funneled money to their own accounts, rendering FullTilt insolvent.
If Paris Hilton can make it to about 7:30 a.m. Tuesday without getting arrested, her current Las Vegas legal woes will be over. Barring a midnight malfeasance, the hotel heiress’s one-year probation is up.
A High Desert State Prison inmate who attempted to escape early Sunday morning is recovering from gunshot wounds, according to the Nevada Department of Corrections.
The Henderson police officer who shot a Las Vegas man armed with two handguns about 9:30 a.m. Friday has been identified as Keith Massenburg. He was hired in 2008, according to the department.
A federal prosecutor told a jury Monday that Nicholas Bickle abused the power of the Navy SEAL uniform he wore to court on the first day of his arms-smuggling trial.
The Clark County coroner’s office has identified the male teen found shot dead in a southeast valley Kmart parking lot early Saturday morning as 17-year-old Martin Jefferson Jr., of Las Vegas.
A recent Wall Street Journal poll of leading economists put the probability of the United States going into recession over the next 12 months at 63 percent. Conventional wisdom is that the Federal Reserve Bank will continue raising interest rates to combat stubborn high inflation, thereby slowing the economy and causing gross domestic product to […]
Adolfo Orozco-Garcia, the former owner of the Alpine Motel Apartments, has reached a plea deal with prosecutors in the deadliest residential fire in Las Vegas history.
A Metropolitan Police Department officer arrested Wednesday pointed a gun at his wife and a man she had developed a relationship with amid her separation from her husband, according to an arrest report.
The Henderson Police Department released body camera footage depicting the moments before a sergeant shot a man who police said struck the sergeant with his vehicle.
Gina Lopez was indicted on burglary and drug charges in connection with the death of a 68-year-old woman whose body was found in a mobile home freezer last year.
