A Laughlin judge won’t remove himself from a lewdness case against a police officer, even though lawyers on both sides of the case say the two men are longtime friends.
David Ferrara
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 charged in the slaying of a defrocked priest in Henderson remained hospitalized Thursday from injuries he suffered when a van carrying inmates crashed.
The victim shuffled to the witness stand in shackles, forced to testify about the day he was shot in a Las Vegas attack that left two others dead.
The lone surviving victim of a January 2017 shooting must testify in handcuffs this week against a suspect in the double murder case, a judge decided Tuesday.
Johnny Brooks, the only surviving victim in a double homicide, is locked up in a Las Vegas jail because he didn’t show up to testify in a death penalty trial for the man who shot him.
A man pleaded guilty Monday to a federal weapons charge for planning violent attacks against the Anti-Defamation League, a Las Vegas synagogue and a Fremont Street bar.
A Las Vegas man must spend the rest of his life in prison for fatally shooting a 24-year-old liquor store clerk during a robbery, jurors decided Friday.
Jurors who convicted a 26-year-old man in the fatal shooting of a liquor store clerk heard evidence Thursday to decide whether he should be sentenced to death.
A man with ties to the Las Vegas sports betting world pleaded guilty Wednesday to a $9.6 million fraud scheme.
For nearly four years after Matthew Christensen was killed in the back room of a Lee’s Discount Liquor store, his coworker has been haunted by the memory of that night.
A 26-year-old man was convicted of all counts Wednesday for fatally shooting a Las Vegas liquor store clerk during an April 2016 robbery.
A man charged in the slaying of a 24-year-old Las Vegas model, whose body was found last year encased in concrete, is due back in court Wednesday.
A man facing the death penalty could be freed from jail as soon as Tuesday, despite concerns about the defendant’s safety on the streets.
Closing arguments wrapped up Monday in the death penalty trial for a 26-year-old man accused of fatally shooting a Las Vegas liquor store clerk during a robbery.
Metropolitan Police Department homicide detective Dolphis Boucher was the final prosecution witness in the initial phase of the death penalty trial for Ray Charles Brown.