A judge ordered Christopher McDonnell, 29, to be sent to a maximum-security psychiatric facility until doctors deem him fit to stand trial, records show.
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The Southern Nevada Health District has linked at least six additional cases of severe liver disease to the Las Vegas-based Real Water brand alkaline water.
A judge on Monday denied bail for a 25-year-old man charged with shooting two people on the Strip, killing one.
Wealthy Las Vegas businessman Stephen Cloobeck and his ex-girlfriend have been embroiled in litigation for months. He claims she conned him. She claims he’s harassing her.
Lawyers for the Las Vegas basketball standout have asked a judge to throw out his DUI and reckless driving charges in connection with a crash that killed a man.
Jordan Barson, 45, pleaded guilty to two counts of DUI resulting in death and is scheduled to be sentenced in June.
Zane Floyd, now 45, received a death sentence for fatally shooting four people and gravely wounding another inside a Las Vegas supermarket in 1999.
Lawyers representing death row inmate Zane Floyd, who is facing imminent lethal injection, want the Clark County district attorney’s office removed from his case.
Prosecutors formally requested an execution warrant on Wednesday for Zane Floyd, who killed four people inside a Las Vegas Albertsons nearly 22 years ago.
A 43-year-old man was sentenced to prison Tuesday for shooting at Las Vegas police officers.
A man charged in what Las Vegas police called a “prostitution-related” killing was ordered held without bail Tuesday.
Nevada’s attorney general and lieutenant governor want to end the death penalty, but Clark County’s district attorney is pushing for the state’s first execution since 2006.
A 29-year-old man was convicted of first-degree murder and other charges Thursday for his role in a fatal shooting in the southeast Las Vegas Valley in 2019.
A California attorney wants an appeals court to reconsider her request to throw out a Steve Wynn defamation lawsuit.
An appellate court has sided with Steve Wynn in his defamation lawsuit against attorney Lisa Bloom and her law firm in a legal battle over a press release about allegations against the former casino mogul.