Prosecutors intend to seek the death penalty for a man accused of a random shooting at a convenience store in November, court records show.
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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.
A 22-year-old man was sentenced Friday to 11 to 28 years in prison for shooting two people in October, killing one.
In the past two years, Clark County prosecutors have charged eight people with murder in connection with fatal overdoses. They are part of a national trend.
State officials said its likely Nevada’s supply of ketamine will expire this month before prosecutors can obtain an execution warrant for death row inmate Zane Floyd.
The Mob Museum kicked off Black History Month with a panel discussion celebrating the state’s “Black legal trailblazers.”
A 26-year-old man was sentenced Tuesday to nine to 25 years in prison for a 2019 fatal DUI crash that left two people dead.
The family of a 37-year-old man who died in police custody two years ago has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the Metropolitan Police Department.
Clark County on Monday reported 6,245 new coronavirus cases and 27 additional deaths over the weekend.
Justin Weniger, the head of the Life is Beautiful music festival, has withdrawn his creditor’s claim against Tony Hsieh’s estate.
A Las Vegas man was sentenced to prison Thursday after pleading guilty to an involuntary manslaughter charge in his girlfriend’s overdose death in 2020.
The father of an inmate who was killed in May at the Clark County Detention Center has filed a federal lawsuit that accuses the jail of failing to protect his son.
German Santanilla worked for decades as a court interpreter in Las Vegas. “Throughout his career he remained one of the best,” a colleague said.
Following a Nevada Supreme Court ruling overturning the sentence for a man who pleaded guilty in a fatal DUI crash, a new judge on Tuesday imposed the same prison term.
A man was sentenced on Friday to two to seven years in prison for the July death of his girlfriend’s 15-year-old son at a shooting range near Laughlin.
A man was sentenced to at least 28 years in prison on Friday for fatally shooting a 20-year-old woman in 2018 at a Las Vegas resort.