A Las Vegas area man tied to the sports betting operation ACME Group Trading has been indicted on charges of violating federal currency transaction laws. Robert Walker, 43, was charged with four counts of causing a financial institution, the Golden Nugget Race & Sports Book, to fail to file an accurate currency transaction report.
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A 47-year-old man who said he killed another man in self-defense in January 2010 was sentenced to eight to 20 years in prison after pleading guilty to voluntary manslaughter.
An early-morning shooting outside of a strip club left one person dead and a second wounded on Sunday, Las Vegas police said.
Vistana homeowners are mounting a letter-writing campaign in federal court seeking restitution for the millions of dollars they say they lost in a massive scheme to take over homeowners associations around the Las Vegas Valley.
A man was found dead Saturday morning after a botched robbery ended in gunfire near Nellis and Lake Mead boulevards, Las Vegas police said.
A five-part special report begins Sunday in the Las Vegas Review-Journal and online at lvrj.com. The culmination of a yearlong investigation covering more than two decades of officer-involved shootings in Clark County, the series will analyze the systemic issues that help determine when, where, how and why police shootings happen — and what can be done to limit them. The Review-Journal investigation includes staff-produced online documentaries, a searchable database of all police shootings since 1990, an archive of original documents, videotaped re-enactments by police and other interactive features.
A homeless man was hospitalized with life-threatening injuries after he caught fire Thursday night.