The mother of a 31-year-old man killed by Las Vegas police in a hospital emergency room has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against Metropolitan Police Department.
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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.
Federal prosecutors filed opening briefs Wednesday in their appeal of a judge’s dismissal of felony conspiracy and weapons charges against Bunkerville rancher Cliven Bundy and others.
Christopher Sena leveled sexual torture on his children and other family members for a decade, prosecutors said during opening statements of his trial on Friday.
Emilio Arenas, who tortured and killed a man in an east Las Vegas apartment, was sentenced Friday to life in prison without the possibility of parole.
Long before Emilio Arenas tortured and killed a man in an east Las Vegas apartment, he inflicted violence, humiliation and degradation upon those he encountered, prosecutors said Thursday.
A 33-year-old man pleaded guilty Thursday to voluntary manslaughter in a fatal shooting at a strip club near downtown Las Vegas.
The woman charged with murder in the death of a nail salon manager made a brief court appearance Thursday in Las Vegas.
Prosecutors on Thursday filed several new charges against Antwon Perkins, a former state corrections officer accused in at least two abduction and sexual assault cases involving minors.
An anonymous donor has given $62,500 to ensure that all of Stephen Paddock’s weapons are destroyed, according to the attorney for the special administrator of the gunman’s estate.
Prominent sports bettor David Oancea, known in gambling circles as “Vegas Dave,” pleaded guilty Monday to a misdemeanor in federal court.
Two men were convicted Friday in the slaying of a 50-year-old Las Vegas man whose body was bound with electrical tape and stuffed in a suitcase.
Henderson officials have responded to a lawsuit against the Police Department that alleges officers punched, kicked and jolted a sporting goods store manager with a stun gun, mistaking him for a shoplifting suspect.
Federal prosecutors are moving forward with their appeal of a judge’s dismissal of felony conspiracy and weapons charges against Bunkerville rancher Cliven Bundy, his sons Ammon and Ryan and independent militia member Ryan Payne.
Special prosecutors have been assigned to review a misdemeanor charge of domestic battery against Clark County District Judge Stefany Miley, officials said Tuesday.
A store worker alleges that a group of Henderson police officers pummeled him with fists, kicked him and jolted him with a stun gun last year as he tried to stop a shoplifting suspect.