Mark Georgantas, an alleged casino con man who authorities say hid out in rural Utah to avoid being sent to prison, made his first Las Vegas court appearance Monday since he skipped his sentencing.
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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.
Krystal Whipple, charged in the killing of a Las Vegas nail salon manager over a $35 manicure, is expected to return to Nevada to face a murder charge.
A judge on Thursday issued a stern lecture to Las Vegas attorney Alexis Plunkett, who sent text messages that claimed she put prison hits out on her former boyfriend, but refused to send her to jail.
Bullets from an Arizona man charged in connection with the Route 91 Harvest festival gunman were not used in the massacre, defense lawyers wrote this week in court papers.
In one of Scott Dozier’s final phone calls, he reached out to the office of Las Vegas attorney Tom Ericsson, who had represented the condemned prisoner for the last 2½ years of his life.
A Las Vegas man must serve up to 60 years in prison for causing a wreck that killed three pedestrians and injured three others, a judge ruled Monday.
A Las Vegas man pleaded guilty Friday to second-degree murder for his role in a shooting that left 16-year-old Aric Brill dead nearly a decade ago.
Former Nevada guardian April Parks, accused of stealing from the hundreds of vulnerable people in her care, was sentenced Friday to between 16 and 40 years in prison.
Circle K Stores Inc. has agreed to pay $8.25 million as part of a Las Vegas settlement for failure to pay overtime wages to store managers across the country.
The Nevada Supreme Court has upheld Ammar Harris’ triple murder conviction and death sentence for a fatal 2013 shooting that caused a collision and fiery explosion on the Las Vegas Strip.
A suspended Las Vegas bankruptcy attorney who spent two years in federal prison has had his law license reinstated.
The 18-year-old son of Clark County District Judge Stefany Miley refused medical attention and declined to give a written statement to police after his mother allegedly slapped him in the face, according to a police report.
Las Vegas defense attorney Alexis Plunkett threatened to have her former boyfriend killed behind bars, prosecutors said in court papers filed Friday urging a judge to revoke her bail.
The Nevada attorney general’s office has made its final argument of the year to the state’s high court in a drawn-out legal battle over prison execution drugs.
The court said James Marlin Cooper, charged in November 2016 with child abuse and battery, should be granted a new trial because the trial judge did not question prosecutors’ dismissal of two black potential jurors.
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