A judge on Monday set a preliminary hearing for a retired Las Vegas police officer charged with soliciting a child for prostitution.
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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 pair of high-profile Las Vegas attorneys settled a federal legal malpractice lawsuit against a former Pure nightclub cocktail waitress.
Prosecutors seeking the death penalty tried to show that the now-convicted 45-year-old killer had a history of abusing and threatening women in his life dating to the mid-1990s.
A Las Vegas man was convicted Monday of fatally shooting his girlfriend and her 17-year-old daughter, as well as critically wounding her 4-year-old daughter.
Clark County attorneys recommend retaining all but two of the 29 District Court judges rated in the Review-Journal’s 2019 Judicial Performance Evaluation.
If Manuel Mata III is convicted of first-degree murder, prosecutors are expected to ask the same panel to send him to death row.
The family of a boy who nearly drowned in a wave pool at Cowabunga Bay has been awarded $49 million in a settlement with the Henderson water park.
Manuel Mata III’s daughter testified Wednesday that she hid in the closet of her bedroom after hearing gunshots that left his girlfriend and her 17-year-old daughter dead.
A third defendant in the death of a 24-year-old model faced a Las Vegas judge Wednesday on murder and kidnapping charges.
Las Vegas attorney Alexis Plunkett, serving probation for allowing clients to use cellphones in jail, has been disbarred from practicing law in Nevada.
A pair of Las Vegas judges face possible suspension after a Nevada judicial panel found they posed “a substantial threat of serious harm to the public or administration of justice.”
A man facing the death penalty and accused in the rape and killing of UNLV student Paula Davis pleaded not guilty Thursday.
Maria Flores wanted out of her tumultuous three-year relationship with Manuel Mata III, prosecutors told jurors Wednesday during opening statements of his capital murder trial.
Prosecutors announced Tuesday that they intend to seek the death penalty against a 21-year-old man accused of raping and killing UNLV student Paula Davis.
A Las Vegas man pleaded not guilty Tuesday in the slaying of a 24-year-old model whose body authorities said was found inside a 250-gallon water tank that had been covered with concrete and wood.
