The Department of Justice announced Thursday that nearly $11.6 million in coronavirus relief funds would be delivered to cities and police departments across Nevada.
David Ferrara
Reporter: Federal Court
Email: dferrara@reviewjournal.com
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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.
Six Las Vegas high school students were named this week as winners in the 2020 9th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals civics contest.
An Arizona man was sentenced Tuesday in Las Vegas to 13 months in prison for selling illegally manufactured ammunition to the Route 91 Harvest festival gunman.
A 22-year-old man has been indicted in the slaying of another man who was shot while walking down a street in Henderson this year.
A 33-year-old Russian man pleaded guilty in Las Vegas on Friday for his role in a global cybercrime ring that allegedly defrauded people around the world of more than $530 million.
A Las Vegas pastor accused of sexually abusing young girls is facing new felony counts in connection with alleged acts that date back almost 13 years.
A 159-count racketeering indictment handed down this week charges 18 people with alleged ties to a criminal syndicate known as the United Samoan Organization with crimes including attempted murder and forgery.
Lawyers for a suspended Las Vegas detective and a former high-ranking director of the police union asked a judge on Wednesday to throw out felony charges against them.
The Nevada Supreme Court reversed the sexual assault conviction of an former Las Vegas police explorer, saying in a decision handed down Thursday that a trial judge’s jury instructions were given in error.
Legal observers and their attorneys gathered Thursday to dispute allegations from Sheriff Joe Lombardo that the observers provoked their own arrests at a weekend protest.
A Las Vegas dentist has been indicted on charges that he failed to pay payroll taxes, file a tax return and pay income taxes, the Department of Justice said Wednesday.
Sheriff Joe Lombardo said his officers made “several” dispersal orders over the weekend as protesters moved toward Interstate 15 before a group of legal observers were arrested on the Strip.
At least seven legal observers were cited for standing in a roadway during an otherwise peaceful protest Saturday along Las Vegas Boulevard.
The heavily armed man who tried to march with Las Vegas police at a Black Lives Matter protest is facing a felony charge of impersonating a U.S. officer.
A 48-year-old man who remains hospitalized from injuries he suffered in a deadly fire at the Alpine Motel Apartments has sued the building’s owner and others.
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