Prosecutors are expected to seek the death penalty against a 42-year-old woman accused of torturing and killing a 4-year-old boy.
David Ferrara
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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 Las Vegas man who said he shot and killed his wife in the midst of a sex act was sentenced Wednesday to 20 to 50 years in prison.
Former Eighth Judicial District Court discovery commissioner Bonnie A. Bulla was appointed to serve on the Nevada Court of Appeals.
Nevada lawmakers introduced legislation Friday that would abolish the death penalty in the state.
A judge dismissed a lawsuit this week that accused the Nevada Donor Network of disfiguring a woman’s corpse.
A pair of Las Vegas men were charged Wednesday with stealing dozens of firearms from the Shooting, Hunting and Outdoor Trade Show in January.
Prosecutors on Wednesday filed drug trafficking charges against tech billionare Henry T. Nicholas III, who bankrolled a victim’s right’s law that voters approved in November.
A Las Vegas man who enticed an autistic girl to send him sexually explicit photographs was sentenced Tuesday to eight years in federal prison.
Prosecutors announced plans to add a first-degree kidnapping charge in the domestic violence case against a Las Vegas fire captain after his wife testified Monday that he rejected her screams for medical help.
In his application for a vacant judicial seat, Mark Bailus included a letter from his campaign manager that blamed the gender of his opponent, Mary Kay Holthus, for his failed election bid.
A conservative internet talk show host and figure in the 2014 Bunkerville standoff wants to interview President Donald Trump adviser Roger Stone while Stone is under federal indictment.
A Las Vegas man who uploaded child pornography to an instant messaging site has been ordered to serve 18 years and one month in federal prison.
Federal prosecutors filed opening briefs Wednesday in their appeal of a judge’s dismissal of felony conspiracy and weapons charges against Bunkerville rancher Cliven Bundy and others.
A Las Vegas man was sentenced Tuesday to 12 years in federal prison for receiving and distributing more than 400 images and 22 videos of child pornography.
Christopher Sena leveled sexual torture on his children and other family members for a decade, prosecutors said during opening statements of his trial on Friday.
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