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An inmate who killed two men in the early 1980s and spent three decades on and off Nevada’s death row died at a Las Vegas hospital after suffering from an unidentified medical condition, the Department of Corrections said Wednesday.
Jerry Pough Sr., 55, has been indicted by a grand jury in the fatally shooting on his son in 2009 after they had watched a boxing match between Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Juan Manuel Marquez, according to court records.
Agreements have been reached to suspend legal proceedings in three federal lawsuits against casino billionaire Sheldon Adelson and his companies. Both sides plan to resolve the disputes through binding arbitration.
A man who was indicted in connection with Operation Stolen Dreams, a nationwide initiative aimed at combating mortgage fraud, was sentenced Wednesday to 27 months in prison.
Former Boulder City Constable Larry Markotay, 44, shot and killed himself at Sunset Station on the second day of his District Court trial on burglary and other charges.
Danielle Slaughter’s lawyers says the 27-year-old will plead not guilty by reason of insanity when she is arraigned May 3 on charges she killed her 6-year-old daughter with a pair of scissors.
Two Henderson bank robbery suspects caught after leading police on a swim across the Colorado River are headed to prison.
KINGMAN, Ariz. – A teenage driver and a 3-year-old child were killed Sunday in a fiery two-vehicle collision in northwest Arizona.
The Metropolitan Police Committee on Fiscal Affairs on Monday approved the agency’s $502 million budget for the next fiscal year.