Crime
As head of the federal public defender’s office in Nevada, Franny Forsman has spent her career passionately opposing capital punishment and advocating for those on death row.
Lady Justice is not only blind — she’s busy, too.
Justice Department prosecutors from Washington have taken over the investigation into allegations of massive fraud within Las Vegas-area homeowners associations. Attorneys with the Criminal Division’s Fraud and Public Integrity Sections have been in Las Vegas for about a month, sources said.
Michelle Paet wanted her husband out of the picture. She had met another man and no longer cared for Nathan Paet, 28, an Air Force staff sergeant with whom she was raising four children.
The State Bar of Nevada continues to monitor a Las Vegas police investigation into attorney Stacey Roundtree, who resigned as a deputy public defender following allegations she engaged in a sex act with an inmate client inside the Clark County Detention Center.
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 […]
Yoni Barrios pleaded not guilty Thursday to charges including murder and terrorism in connection with a barrage of stabbings on the Strip in October 2022.
Snowden, whom officers called “too drunk to stand,” thought he was in Florida when he was arrested for impaired driving last month, according to police body camera videos.
Hina Hin, the father of 17-year-old Jennaleah Hin, who was found dead in the desert Sunday, shared police reports from the night Jennaleah disappeared.
Las Vegas police are asking for the public’s help in locating a man who they say broke into the bedroom of a juvenile.
