A 25-year-old man was convicted of murder this week after prosecutors said a recovered Snapchat message helped authorities track him down.
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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.
Las Vegas prosecutors on Thursday named three more people in a sweeping indictment of a long-running “psychic reading” scam that bilked a California lawyer.
Scott Gragson, a prominent real estate broker charged in a fatal DUI crash in The Ridges community in Summerlin, had a blood alcohol level nearly twice the legal limit several hours after the wreck, the county’s top prosecutor said.
A 31-year-old woman with ties to the death of a California doctor has worked out a deal with Las Vegas prosecutors.
A Las Vegas con man tried yet again on Monday to avoid being sent to prison, but a judge ordered him to serve up to 20 years behind bars.
Scott Gragson started drinking alcohol at a charity golf event hours before he crashed his SUV, killing a woman and injuring three others, according to a police report.
Katherine Maddox, the wife of Wynn Resorts CEO Matt Maddox, must undergo domestic violence counseling and complete community service for striking him at Red Rock Resort on April 27.
Extended surveillance video made public this week shows a woman shoving a 74-year-old man off a Las Vegas bus, then stepping over him as he lay bleeding on concrete.
A judge set bail at $25,000 on Friday for a 24-year-old man charged after a gunshot was fired inside the Fashion Show mall in Las Vegas on Memorial Day.
Prosecutors lodged seven new felony charges Thursday against Matthew Terry, who is accused of committing sex acts with several children.
A woman caught on video shoving a 74-year-old man off of a Las Vegas bus pleaded not guilty Thursday to murder and other charges related to his death.
Prosecutors leveled several new charges Wednesday against a man and woman accused of bilking more than $1 million from a lawyer.
A judge on Wednedsay set a preliminary hearing for a 20-year-old man accused of driving over his estranged girlfriend after she attended the Electric Daisy Carnival.
Lawyers for Todd Pomeroy, a former Catholic school physical education teacher accused of making threats, said Tuesday that they would seek probation for the 57-year-old.
A Las Vegas man who sexually tortured children for a decade was sentenced Tuesday to 54 life prison sentences. A judge called him “highly selfish” with “a very perverted mind.”