A graduation ceremony celebrated 22 people who completed a diversion program for those who need help with mental health or substance abuse.
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Katelyn joined the Las Vegas Review-Journal’s metro desk in June after graduating from the University of Florida. She previously worked with the paper in the summer of 2017 as an intern on the business desk. Before graduating college she was the editor in chief of the Independent Florida Alligator. She was born and raised in Orlando, Florida.
Victor Villanueva was sentenced to jail time and three years’ probation for shooting a McDonald’s employee on the Strip after he was fired from the fast-food restaurant.
Lahela Kaiwi-Brewer pleaded guilty in June to voluntary manslaughter for fatally shooting a woman who confronted her last year about giving the other woman’s children a ride to school.
The former Bishop Gorman basketball standout is on probation for a fatal crash that killed a 52-year-old man.
A local race car driver who was the victim in a robbery and murder-for-hire case is now accused of fraudulently obtaining more than $900,000 in COVID-19 relief loans.
When Dr. James McMillan became the first black dentist in Las Vegas in 1953, he wasn’t allowed to stay at a Strip hotel. Seven years later, McMillan, one of the first presidents of Las Vegas’ chapter of the NAACP, would lead the effort to end such segregation in the city.
Prosecutors also filed a Marcum notice on Thursday, meaning a grand jury could still indict Williams in the future.
George Bone is facing a murder charge after he was accused of killing his roommate and living with her body for more than two months.
The lawsuit was filed by No Kill Las Vegas, an advocacy organization formed 10 years ago to speak out against the shelter.
James Gina, 50, appeared in court briefly after he was arrested and accused of killing his 27-year-old girlfriend and hiding her body.
Stephen Parshall, a member of the boogaloo movement, had pleaded guilty to conspiring to commit violence during a Black Lives Matter protest.
A jury awarded a Nevada prisoner more than $200,000 in damages, but the attorney general’s office is now trying to avoid paying, the prisoner’s attorneys allege.
A 13-year-old boy drowned in floodwater during the weekend storms in Las Vegas, Clark County officials announced.
Clark County District Attorney Steve Wolfson said prosecutors are prepared to go to trial in November against Robert Telles, accused of killing investigative reporter Jeff German.
Clark County School District employees previously could mark emails as confidential, which would cause them to be erased from the system.