A judge sentenced Iraq War veteran Joseph Patrick “Pat” Lamoureux on Tuesday to up to 10 years in prison for a shooting spree that left him and a Nye County sheriff’s deputy wounded. Judge Robert Lane said a public defender’s claim that the spree was sparked by Lamoureux’s bout with post-traumatic stress disorder “lacks credibility.”
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Judge Gloria Navarro has ordered Cole Puffinburger brought to the courthouse Wednesday in case defense lawyers call him as a witness in the trial stemming from the boy’s 2008 kidnapping. Prosecutors have rested their case against Jose “Miguel” Lopez-Buelna and Luis Vega-Rubio, who are being tried on kidnapping and drug charges in connection with Cole’s disappearance.
A Pahrump judge released the mother of three children killed in last week?s house fire saying that the woman belonged with her family, not in jail.
For the hundreds of people who might have contracted hepatitis C during colonoscopies and other procedures at Las Vegas clinics owned by Dr. Dipak Desai, precisely how the deadly virus was transmitted to them is probably not so much a concern as how their lives have been or will be dramatically altered.
Mike Madland was in and out of consciousness and losing blood at an alarming rate. The last thing he remembers of the night of March 23 is lying on a gurney in the back of an ambulance. He doesn’t remember dying twice.
Sharon Broadhead, whose three children and a friend died in a mobile home fire in Pahrump last week, was arrested Saturday on manslaughter and child abuse charges, the Nye County Sheriff’s Office announced.
ALEXANDRIA, La. — A Las Vegas man who was declared dead about 17 years ago has pleaded not guilty to charges of kidnapping and killing a 12-year-old girl whose body was found in October in Louisiana.
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 […]
Police say two Southern Nevada women kidnapped a man and stole over $275,000 of cryptocurrency from him after a night of partying on the Las Vegas Strip.
Sean Lucero, a retired Metropolitan Police Department vice squad sergeant, pleaded guilty to counts of attempted theft and oppression under the color of office.
Jason Roscow, a father of two and longtime North Las Vegas police officer, was mourned in a memorial service at Central Church in Henderson.
Embattled criminal defense attorney and former prosecutor Gary Guymon has filed a petition to transfer his law license to disability status, court records show.