An Israeli mob figure who has a violent criminal history pleaded guilty in federal court Friday to spearheading a Las Vegas extortion scheme.
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A nine-count federal indictment that was unsealed Friday shut down three of the world’s largest Internet poker websites and could also end efforts by Nevada lawmakers to legalize the activity within the state.
Two nonprofit medical marijuana co-ops run by Completely Legal were among five locations raided late Wednesday by the Metropolitan Police Department.
Clark County prosecutors in a contentious Family Court hearing Wednesday argued Victor Fakoya doesn’t have the right to a court-appointed attorney and asked a hearing master to close the courtroom to the public as the Nigerian immigrant fights to regain unfettered access to his own children.
SAN RAFAEL, Calif. — A Nevada man’s arrest in four cold-case deaths in California has authorities scrambling to determine whether he is connected to killings in other states, including the notorious “Double Initial Murders” of three girls in upstate New York in the early 1970s.
