A Las Vegas man who sexually tortured children for a decade was sentenced Tuesday to 54 life prison sentences. A judge called him “highly selfish” with “a very perverted mind.”
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 Las Vegas judge tasked with deciding whether to halt Nevada’s latest round of marijuana business licenses heard arguments from lawyers Friday.
A 20-year-old man is accused of driving over his estranged girlfriend and critically injuring her after she attended the Electric Daisy Carnival against his wishes.
Two new charges were added Friday against a woman accused of killing a 74-year-old man by pushing him off a bus.
Slobodan Miljus, 37, is charged with murder in the slaying of his wife of 17 years and mother of their two boys, 31-year-old Zvjezdana Bencun.
Edwin Fujinaga, 72, former owner of the medical-billing-collections company MRI, defrauded thousands of investors in one of the biggest financial crimes in U.S. history.
Cadesha Bishop, 25, accused of shoving a 74-year-old man to his death off a bus in Las Vegas, appeared briefly before a judge Thursday on a murder charge.
A Las Vegas judge on Wednesday found that prosecutors had enough evidence to take murder and child abuse charges against a former NFL player to trial.
A judge in Las Vegas rejected arguments on Tuesday from lawyers for a man facing three murder charges who asked to throw out the death penalty.
A former NFL player is expected to face 10 new charges in connection with the death of a 5-year-old Las Vegas girl, prosecutors said Tuesday.
A private lawyer, Elayna Youchah, has been selected to fill a soon-to-be vacant U.S. magistrate seat in Las Vegas, replacing Magistrate George Foley.
Prominent sports bettor David Oancea, known in gambling circles as “Vegas Dave,” must stay out of Las Vegas sportsbooks for three years, a judge ruled Monday.
A 40-year-old woman prosecutors say took an 11-year-old girl to the Las Vegas Strip to work as a prostitute is charged with sex trafficking and child abuse.
A retired Metropolitan Police Department detective was indicted Friday on a first-degree murder charge in what prosecutors described as the execution-style killing of her former son-in-law.
A Las Vegas lawyer was indicted in what authorities described as a scheme to sell nearly two billion shares of a worthless penny stock for profit.