A 22-year-old man was sentenced Friday to 20 to 50 years in prison for his part in the 2018 fatal shooting of a 60-year-old woman outside her northwest Las Vegas home.
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 woman who pushed a 74-year-old man off a Las Vegas bus, causing his death, was sentenced Friday to between eight and 20 years in prison.
Prosecutors have dropped a murder charge against Wattsel Rembert, the target of a Las Vegas police search warrant during which officers shot and killed a different man.
Kansas City Chiefs cornerback Chris Lammons turned himself in for a “walk through” booking at CCDC on Thursday morning, his lawyer said.
Wealthy real estate broker Scott Gragson has reached a confidential settlement with a passenger injured in the May 2019 DUI crash.
The family of a UNLV student who died following a fraternity-sponsored boxing match in November has filed a lawsuit against the university and the Kappa Sigma Fraternity.
A Las Vegas man accused of killing a woman, storing her body in a suitcase and raping another woman was sentenced Tuesday to between 16 and 40 years in prison.
Las Vegas Justice of the Peace Rebecca Kern, who was up for re-election this year, abruptly resigned last month.
Officials have missed their deadline to secure an execution warrant for death row prisoner Zane Floyd before Nevada’s supply of ketamine expires.
A teenager was sentenced last week to 10 years to life in prison for shooting and killing a man when he was 14, court records show.
A Las Vegas man accused of shooting his grandmother in the head and burying her body in two storage containers in the desert has pleaded guilty but mentally ill to a murder charge.
Mesquite’s chief of police filed a defamation lawsuit against a former reporter, but the two have reached an undisclosed settlement.
The family of a man who was injured and killed while working at a Henderson rock quarry last year filed a lawsuit against the makers of a rock-crushing machine.
Luther Childers, who initially faced a murder charge, pleaded guilty in October to a felony count of child abuse, neglect or endangerment.
A 32-year-old man pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter Tuesday in the overdose death of a 13-year-old Las Vegas girl.