A preliminary hearing for a 19-year-old basketball standout, charged with driving while high on marijuana and killing another man, was postponed Wednesday.
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David Ferrara covers courts and legal affairs. He joined the newspaper in 2014 after more than six years reporting in the Deep South, where he wrote extensively about the BP oil spill. Prior to that, he worked for newspapers, magazines and a wire service in Chicago. He is a graduate of Southern Illinois University in Carbondale.
A man was sentenced Tuesday to 2½ years in federal prison for attempting to strangle and suffocate a woman on the Pyramid Lake reservation northeast of Reno.
A Las Vegas attorney for the late tech entrepreneur Tony Hsieh is seeking more than $360,000 in legal fees, court records show.
Felon and former 311 Boyz gang member Steven Gazlay and his girlfriend, charged with swindling a lender, were arrested in Idaho this weekend.
A man who spent a year and a half behind bars before federal prosecutors in Las Vegas dropped money laundering charges against him has sued the government.
A man wanted in the death of a 22-year-old woman whose body was found outside Las Vegas and his father were indicted Friday.
A judge set bail at $750,000 for a box truck driver accused of killing five Las Vegas bicyclists, court records show.
Felon and former 311 Boyz gang member Steven Gazlay and his girlfriend skipped court Wednesday while facing charges of swindling a lender out of more than $700,000.
A drug manufacturer in India has agreed to pay $50 million in Nevada for hiding and destroying records, the Department of Justice announced on Tuesday.
Nevada U.S. Attorney Nicholas Trutanich announced Tuesday that he would leave the Department of Justice at the end of the month.
Shane Loyd, 43, pleaded guilty Tuesday to three felonies for shooting at Las Vegas police officers in October.
A woman who drove over and killed a Las Vegas nail salon manager was sentenced Friday to 10 to 25 years in prison.
Authorities have said Jordan Barson, 45, was high on methamphetamine when he plowed into a group of bicyclists on Dec. 10 near Searchlight, killing five of them.
U.S. Magistrate Judge William Cobb of Nevada announced on Tuesday that he plans to retire from the bench in January 2022. He has held the position since 2011.
Federal prosecutors argued that the two men, arrested last week in Las Vegas, pose a “serious risk to obstruct justice” and should remain behind bars while awaiting trial.
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