Three days after being convicted of involuntary manslaughter in the death of his wife, a former Air Force technical sergeant was ordered to be released.
Briana Erickson
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Briana Erickson covers homeless and veterans’ issues for the Review-Journal. A proud “Florida Woman” living in the desert, she centers her reporting around people living in the shadows.
Before joining the Review-Journal in 2017, the University of Florida graduate wrote for the North Central Florida NPR affiliate and the South Florida Sun Sentinel. She was named College Journalist of the Year by the Society of Professional Journalists.
A disbarred Las Vegas attorney was sentenced Tuesday to between two and five years in prison for scamming people into investing thousands of dollars in a fake medical marijuana company.
A decade ago, Snickers just might have been the world’s most famous cocker spaniel. In his first nine months, he had survived a shipwreck only to be left to fend for himself on an island. Enter then-Summerlin resident Jack Joslin, who gave Snickers his forever home.
After nearly eight hours of deliberations, a Clark County jury convicted a former Air Force technical sergeant Friday of involuntary manslaughter in the death of his wife.
Attorneys made their closing arguments Thursday in the trial of an ex-Air Force sergeant charged in the April 2013 shooting death of his wife — a death that North Las Vegas police initially ruled a suicide.
At 9 a.m. Monday, a constable informed the residents of Las Haciendas Apartments in North Las Vegas that they had to move out.
A motorcyclist critically injured after a crash in the west Las Vegas Valley on Friday has died.
Victor Manuel Rivas, Jr., 25, of North Las Vegas died east of Las Vegas Boulevard North on the 1400 block of Lake Mead Boulevard, near North Vista Hospital, police said.
A Las Vegas man killed Sunday after crashing his motorcycle into a block wall in the northwest valley has been identified.
Some viewers hoping to tune in Sunday night to the Academy Awards broadcast in the Las Vegas Valley were met with “technical difficulties” from ABC affiliate KTNV Channel 13. It tweeted at 10:42 p.m. that the signal had been restored.
Lee Canyon Road was closed in both directions between U.S. Highway 95 and Deer Creek Road for several hours Sunday after a man was ejected in a single vehicle rollover crash, the Nevada Highway Patrol said.
Long delays are expected in the southbound lanes of Interstate 15, according to a tweet from the Regional Transportation Commission of Southern Nevada.
British tourist Ellie Milward, 29, who was celebrating her honeymoon when the crash occurred on Feb. 10, died Sunday at University Medical Center in Las Vegas.
Andrew Arevalo made headlines last year for being the incarcerated boyfriend of defense attorney Alexis Plunkett, who was indicted in July on felony charges related to improperly providing a cellphone to two jail inmates, including him.
A Clark County District Court jury returned a $20 million verdict last week in a civil case filed by a teenager who suffered a traumatic brain injury in a playground accident.