Miranda Contreras, a full-time member of the U. S. Air Force Reserve and pre-athletic training student at UNLV, was crowned Miss El Tiempo 2019 on Saturday at Sam’s Town Hotel.
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.
A recent appellate court ruling could result in the release of a death row inmate who fatally shot an FBI agent in 1990 in a Las Vegas bank.
Nathanael Martinez was sentenced to life in prison Wednesday in the 2015 strangling of 25-year-old Marissa Gonzales in his apartment. The 24-year-old Las Vegas man will be eligible for parole after 10 years.
Former Air Force technical sergeant Jarom Boyes, 46, was formally sentenced to a maximum of four years in prison for involuntary manslaughter, but walked free Tuesday because he had already served nearly five years in jail while awaiting trial.
A grand jury chose not to indict UFC fighter Nick Diaz, but prosecutors still intend to move forward with the domestic violence case.
A second pharmaceutical company has joined the suit to stop Nevada from using its synthetic opiate, fentanyl, in the state’s execution of two-time murderer Scott Dozier.
International tourists got what they came for Thursday at Death Valley National Park as the official temperature soared to 127 degrees at 4:42 p.m., tying a record for the date set in 1993, according to the National Weather Service.
An excessive heat warning went into effect early Tuesday and will remain in place at least through Thursday as high temperatures are expected to reach 111 degrees and above, according to the National Weather Service.
Families of victims and survivors of the mass shooting on the Las Vegas Strip appeared for a press conference Monday morning in California.
In all three robberies, which took place Friday and Saturday, the suspect pointed a firearm at an employee and demanded money, according to a Metropolitan Police Department news release.
It was the first such congressional tour of the site since 2015, when Rep. John Shimkus, R-Ill., chairman of the House Energy and Commerce subcommittee on the environment, led a half dozen lawmakers underground to review the proposed nuclear waste repository.
A civil rights lawsuit filed this week alleges that a man’s constitutional rights were violated when he was shot and killed by a Las Vegas police officer last year.
Heavy rains temporarily closed part of U.S. Highway 95, delayed flights at McCarran International Airport and prompted the National Weather Service to issue three flood alerts for Southern Nevada.
Kimarie Miller and her husband, David, testified in September 2007 at the trial of Scott Dozier, the man convicting of murdering and dismembering their son, 22-year-old Jeremiah Miller
A jury sentenced Dozier to death in October 2007 for killing 22-year-old Jeremiah Miller. It was his second murder conviction.
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