A former Henderson CPA pleaded guilty Tuesday for his role in a bribery scheme involving a federal contract.
David Ferrara
David Ferrara covers courts and legal affairs. He joined the newspaper in 2014 after more than six years reporting in the Deep South, where he wrote extensively about the BP oil spill. Prior to that, he worked for newspapers, magazines and a wire service in Chicago. He is a graduate of Southern Illinois University in Carbondale.
Along with his prison sentence, handed down in Wisconsin, he must serve 25 years of supervision once he is released.
Three men who prosecutors said used stolen vehicles to ram police cars and committed nightly felonies for years were sentenced Monday to at least eight years behind bars.
Prosecutors agreed to drop felony charges Thursday against four Utah sisters accused of storming into a penthouse suite at the Cosmopolitan and attacking one woman’s estranged husband and his girlfriend with fists and high heel shoes.
Man with neo-Nazi tattoos on his face who pleaded guilty to killing a 75-year-old woman in her Las Vegas home in 2013 was sentenced Thursday to at least 44 years behind bars.
Devon Cervin was indicted Wednesday on two counts of sexual assault, one count of first-degree kidnapping and one count of battery with intent to commit sexual assault.
A recent legal agreement in Nevada could help protect a rare desert flower thought to be found nowhere else in the world.
A man accused of beating and kidnapping his girlfriend in an act caught on a home surveillance video was back in court Wednesday.
Dozens of judicial candidates arrived early Monday at the Clark County Government Center to place their names on the 2020 ballot.
The incident occurred when the dentist was placing crowns on a 5-year-old Las Vegas girl’s teeth and a spark from a drill ignited packing in her mouth, the complaint says.
A judge set bail at $50,000 on Friday for a man accused of beating and kidnapping his girlfriend in an act caught on a home surveillance video.
Marwan Porter, an attorney for the family of Cynthia Mikell, 61 told reporters that The Cochran Firm has launched its own investigation into the fire.
In the same year the Nevada Legislature decided not to act on a bill to end capital punishment, three men were removed Nevada’s death row — two by legal means and one by suicide.
The Nevada Commission on Judicial Discipline decided Tuesday that it would not suspend a pair of Las Vegas judges over questions about profanity off the bench and administrative complaints involving court clerks.
A woman charged in a drug robbery that left a Las Vegas man dead a year ago was ordered released from jail Monday on her own recognizance.