Judge Gloria Navarro has ordered Cole Puffinburger brought to the courthouse Wednesday in case defense lawyers call him as a witness in the trial stemming from the boy’s 2008 kidnapping. Prosecutors have rested their case against Jose “Miguel” Lopez-Buelna and Luis Vega-Rubio, who are being tried on kidnapping and drug charges in connection with Cole’s disappearance.
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A Pahrump judge released the mother of three children killed in last week?s house fire saying that the woman belonged with her family, not in jail.
For the hundreds of people who might have contracted hepatitis C during colonoscopies and other procedures at Las Vegas clinics owned by Dr. Dipak Desai, precisely how the deadly virus was transmitted to them is probably not so much a concern as how their lives have been or will be dramatically altered.
Mike Madland was in and out of consciousness and losing blood at an alarming rate. The last thing he remembers of the night of March 23 is lying on a gurney in the back of an ambulance. He doesn’t remember dying twice.
Sharon Broadhead, whose three children and a friend died in a mobile home fire in Pahrump last week, was arrested Saturday on manslaughter and child abuse charges, the Nye County Sheriff’s Office announced.
ALEXANDRIA, La. — A Las Vegas man who was declared dead about 17 years ago has pleaded not guilty to charges of kidnapping and killing a 12-year-old girl whose body was found in October in Louisiana.
“This photo is absolutely horrific,” said District Judge Linda Bell before she slapped a $500,000 bail on a Las Vegas man charged with domestic violence.
A 35-year-old man in the United States illegally was indicted for murder with use of a deadly weapon, armed robbery and other felony charges for the December slaying of a jewelry salesman.