A Las Vegas pain doctor says he stopped treating Henderson Municipal Judge Diana Hampton two months before she died and “had nothing to do with her untimely demise.”
David Ferrara
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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.
A man was indicted Wednesday on a terrorism charge after authorities accused him of making threats at a Las Vegas church.
The family of the late Henderson judge Diana Hampton has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against a doctor charged with illegally distributing fentanyl.
More than four months after agreeing to pay back nearly half a million dollars in connection with a “pure cash” promise of beating Las Vegas casino pit games, Mark Georgantas persuaded a judge to postpone his sentencing for theft.
A former marriage and family counselor was sentenced Monday to 25 years in federal prison for soliciting a child to have sex with him and for possessing child pornography.
Nearly 34 years after Nancy Menke was raped and murdered, Scotty Sloan admitted his guilt for the first time to the Nevada Parole Board, which granted his release. He is scheduled to walk free in less than a month.
Another massage therapist lodged a civil complaint against Steve Wynn and his former company’s board on Thursday, just one day after another massuese made similar allegations of sexual harassment.
A former massage therapist filed a civil lawsuit Wednesday against disgraced and departed casino mogul Steve Wynn, alleging that he frequently used “his immense power to coerce (her) to perform sexual favors.”
A judge on Tuesday threw out a Czech casino owner’s counterclaims against the Aria and an Australian poker player over a multi-million dollar poker game. Lawyers for Leon Tsoukernik had alleged that he lost $3 million to a professional poker player because the casino plied him with alcohol.
Lawyers for victims of the Oct. 1 mass shooting have filed a class-action lawsuit against Live Nation Entertainment, asking the concert promoter to refund the cost of 22,000 tickets to the Route 91 Harvest festival.
Former Las Vegas City Councilman Ricki Barlow pleaded guilty Monday to a felony wire fraud charge for misusing campaign funds in 2015.
Newly released transcripts from a four-month grand jury investigation reveal details about years of sexual abuse that led to criminal charges against a Las Vegas police detective.
The largest nationwide crackdown on elder fraud cases announced Thursday has links to Las Vegas and Henderson women accused of operating scams that pilfered millions of dollars from hundreds of people, the Department of Justice announced Thursday.
A suspended Las Vegas police lieutenant, a guardian and two other people pleaded not guilty Wednesday to various theft and elderly-exploitation charges.
Journalism groups have joined an effort to halt a judge’s order requiring the Las Vegas Review-Journal and The Associated Press to destroy copies of an Oct. 1 victim’s autopsy, which media lawyers argue is a public document.