Prosecutors believe three former McCarran International Airport technicians charged with theft are behind a bizarre website that surfaced briefly in April to intimidate witnesses in the criminal case.
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A longtime Nevada lawmaker-turned-lobbyist faces potential prison time over allegations he failed to report more than $120,000 in campaign contributions and instead put the money in a personal checking account.
Jose Lopez-Buelna, who once was suspected of helping kidnap 6-year-old Cole Puffinburger in a case that attracted national headlines, and his lawyer, Robert Draskovich, each filed motions this week asking to end their attorney-client relationship.
LOS ANGELES — Sony Pictures Entertainment has agreed to provide a private screening for Dr. Conrad Murray and his defense attorneys to view some 100 hours of raw footage of Michael Jackson’s rehearsals for his “This Is It” concert.
Brandon Hill wondered aloud Wednesday why he was spending his 23rd birthday in jail accused of killing Michael Alano Portaro, 22, outside a brew pub March 30. Speaking over a video link at the Clark County Detention Center, Hill, who has been in and out of jail the past few years, said he’s not the shooter.
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.
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 […]
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.
A judge ordered a woman to complete probation and ordered her to remain in custody until she is accepted into an in-patient treatment program to address her drug addiction.
Duane “Keffe D” Davis has previously asked a judge to dismiss a murder charge that he faces in connection with the 1996 killing of Tupac Shakur.
