A 35-year-old man was sentenced to prison for pushing and fatally injuring an El Cortez security guard in 2021.
Katelyn Newberg
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.
A North Las Vegas judge on Wednesday lowered bail for a woman accused of a DUI crash that killed her two nieces last month.
A former police officer who pleaded guilty in a 1997 shooting death was sentenced Tuesday to between six and 15 years in prison.
Las Vegas celebrated the start of 2023 with explosions of fireworks on the Strip and downtown, despite a slight drizzle just before midnight.
The opinion from the Nevada Supreme Court stems from a lawsuit filed by a woman who claimed she was subject to a “demeaning and humiliating” strip search while visiting a Nevada prison.
The Supreme Court has affirmed a lower court’s decision to hold an investigator in contempt of court for refusing to testify in a preliminary hearing more than two years ago about the Alpine Motel Apartments fire.
Two New Mexico tourists were killed in the crash on Wednesday evening near the Fremont Street Experience.
A former human resources employee filed a federal lawsuit this week accusing the Raiders of discriminating and retaliating against her.
Prosecutors on Wednesday dismissed charges against a woman arrested in 2019 in connection with her 2-month-old son’s death.
A woman accused of a crash that killed her two nieces appeared in North Las Vegas Justice Court. The mother of the girls remains hospitalized.
Judge James Wilson said that the board did not give the proper amount of notice to victims’ families prior to the meeting, although he allowed that the board did have the power to commute death sentences.
Nearly three years after the deadliest residential fire in Las Vegas history, a complex lawsuit involving dozens of plaintiffs could be nearing a resolution.
The Washoe County district attorney’s office moved Friday to stop the Nevada Board of Pardons from commuting the death sentences of all 57 prisoners on death row.
A change in the court calendar approved by the Clark County Commission takes effect in January.
Officials said a member of an international criminal enterprise was sentenced in Las Vegas to more than three years in prison for his role in a bank fraud scheme.