A Las Vegas man convicted of killing a 1-year-old child was sentenced Wednesday to 14 years to life in prison.
Briana Erickson
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Briana Erickson covers homeless and veterans’ issues for the Review-Journal. A proud “Florida Woman” living in the desert, she centers her reporting around people living in the shadows.
Before joining the Review-Journal in 2017, the University of Florida graduate wrote for the North Central Florida NPR affiliate and the South Florida Sun Sentinel. She was named College Journalist of the Year by the Society of Professional Journalists.
Eight former employees of the Las Vegas Rescue Mission say they were suspended and then fired after raising concerns about “God being taken out of everything” by the new CEO of the Christian nonprofit.
Mental health therapist Sheldon Jacobs spent two days on the streets of downtown Las Vegas to better connect with issues facing his patients. “I want to know what some of my clients have gone through or felt,” he said.
Justice of the Peace Kent Jasperson ruled Thursday that prosecutors have enough evidence to present the case to a jury.
Donna Liebig testified in front of Justice of the Peace Kent Jasperson during a preliminary hearing Thursday for Michael Wilson and Dakota Saldivar. The 17-year-olds are accused of fatally stabbing and beating Dawn Liebig, her daughter and their mother, in July.
The two were the sole Nevada representatives this past weekend at the Championships of the USA gymnastics meet at TD Garden in Boston. Twenty-five athletes nationwide qualified for the meet, with spots on the women’s USA Gymnastics Junior Team on the line.
A witness in the murder trial of 32-year-old Kurtis Richards testified Thursday in Clark County District Court.
The accident was reported around 9:15, at the intersection of Sixth Street and Sahara Avenue, Clark County School District police Capt. Roberto Morales said.
A week after a body was found in a vacant northeast valley home last year, a witness to the killing was kidnapped, shot in the head with a pellet gun and sexually assaulted, a prosecutor said Wednesday.
A federal grand jury indicted a Henderson woman on 10 counts related to opioid drug trafficking, including distributing a substance resulting in a person’s death, the Department of Justice announced Tuesday.
The firefighters unanimously agreed that the job of cooking during their shifts, usually left to the responsibility of the truck company, had recently been made easier, thanks to a donation from BBQ Concepts. The 10 grills cost a total of $9,820.
Deon Derrico, the father of Las Vegas quintuplets, is officially free of all real estate fraud charges. The two charges hanging over his head after his April acquittal of various real estate fraud charges were dropped Tuesday by the Nevada attorney general’s office.
The brothel license for Love Ranch Vegas was revoked after Nye County commissioners said the owner and Republican Assembly candidate, Dennis Hof, failed to renew the license on time.
Two teenage brothers are accused of fatally stabbing and beating their mother nearly two weeks before their Aug. 1 arrest, records show.
North Las Vegas orthodontist Victoria Chen has donated more than $120,000 worth of her services through Smiles Change Lives — a national nonprofit aimed at helping children from struggling families afford necessary orthodontic treatment.
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