Courts
An image of Jason Rimer is seen on a monitor Friday as his older brother Quaylyn Rimer testifies in District Court. Parents Stanley and Colleen Rimer are on trial on charges of murder and child neglect and abuse in the death of their 4-year-old son.
Las Vegas police have identified the man they shot and wounded off a freeway exit ramp Thursday as Jose Luis Castro, Jr. of Chandler, Ariz.
A $24 billion predatory lending lawsuit filed against the Credit Suisse Group by investors in Lake Las Vegas and other resort communities in Idaho, Montana and the Bahamas can go forward.
Heidi Jordan is facing prison time and the loss of her job as a special education teacher for failing to act on information that two of her students brought a semiautomatic handgun to Mojave High School.
When Judge Robert Lane announced the maximum sentence Tuesday of nearly 10 years for Joseph Patrick Lamoureux, he was implying that in the real world of today’s overcrowded prisons, minimum sentences turn out to be the maximums that many felons serve. That’s according to Nye County Chief Prosecutor Kirk Vitto. He was granted consecutive maximum terms for Lamoureux, who agreed to plead guilty to two felonies for a Sept. 19, 2008, shooting spree at Terrible’s Lakeside RV Park in Pahrump that wounded sheriff’s Deputy Eric Murphy.