A 34-year-old convicted of first-degree murder for his part in a deadly 2016 shooting in Las Vegas was sentenced Tuesday to 32 years to life in prison.
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 report released Tuesday shows that a woman accused of attempting to mow down children with her minivan last week was angry her son was being bullied.
“This prosecution is the first in the District of Columbia involving the creation of scam political action committees,” U.S. Attorney Matthew Graves said in a statement.
A Las Vegas man was sentenced on Monday to 11 years in prison for distributing child pornography through the Kik Messenger app, the Justice Department announced.
Las Vegas tech mogul Tony Hsieh had assets worth more than $500 million, according to court documents filed this week.
A Las Vegas man was sentenced on Friday to eight to 20 years in prison for the fatal beating of a woman in July.
Two brothers were sentenced to probation on Friday in connection with a February fatal shooting outside a Las Vegas hookah lounge.
The Nevada Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that gun manufacturers cannot be held responsible under state law for the deaths in the Route 91 Harvest festival massacre.
A Las Vegas man convicted of killing a moped rider in June was sentenced on Thursday to spend four to 10 years in prison.
A man who was injured jumping from a window to escape the deadly Alpine Motel Apartments fire in 2019 has filed a lawsuit against the building’s former owner.
The former owner of the Alpine Motel Apartments, the site of the deadliest residential fire in Las Vegas city history, filed a lawsuit Tuesday against people he claimed “are more directly responsible.”
A Utah company on Monday filed a $19 million creditor’s claim against Tony Hsieh’s estate regarding a film studio Hsieh rented in Park City just before his death.
A judge denied bail on Tuesday for a 26-year-old man accused of fatally stabbing a homeless man in what officials said was an unprovoked attack.
A Las Vegas OB-GYN who died last week was a leader in the medical community and helped form UNLV’s medical school, his colleagues said.
In Nevada, 31 game wardens are responsible for patrolling about 110,000 square miles of land. Almost everyone they encounter is armed.