A man charged with murder in the death of a 3-year-old boy refused to appear in court Friday.
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 former Boulder City police officer has been sentenced to five years of probation for taking money that was intended for his disabled son.
Prosecutors said Wednesday that they plan to file murder charges against a 20-year-old woman and her boyfriend in connection with the death of her 3-year-old son.
A judge ruled Tuesday that the Department of Corrections must reveal the name of the attending physician in the planned execution of Scott Dozier, but the name may be revealed only to the attorneys who represent the makers of drugs in the state’s lethal injection protocol.
Longtime Las Vegas businessman Ramon DeSage pleaded guilty to a federal tax conspiracy charge Friday after prosecutors slashed nearly all of a 52-count indictment related to a scheme to defraud investors out of millions of dollars.
A woman accused of stealing more than $1 million from one of the poker industry’s leading publications was indicted Thursday on two dozen felony counts.
A woman pleaded no contest to vehicular manslaughter charges Thursday in connection with a crash that killed North Las Vegas Police Detective Chad Parque.
Prosecutors threw out domestic battery charges against UFC fighter Nick Diaz on Thursday, hours before a judge was set to hear evidence in the case.
A 32-year-old Las Vegas man was convicted of first-degree murder Friday for fatally shooting a man inside a vacant northeast valley home.
The Nevada Supreme Court has rescheduled oral arguments in the state prison system’s appeal of a decision that halted condemned killer Scott Dozier’s execution.
The indictment of Las Vegas attorney and former College of Southern Nevada professor Mark Peplowski came two weeks after a judge dismissed gross lewdness charges against him.
Rancher Cliven Bundy, cleared of federal charges this year, refiled a lawsuit against Nevada and Clark County governments.
“Thank you very much,” the man told officer Tyler Hebb at his sentencing hearing Tuesday. “I appreciate that, and I’m sorry for putting you and your family through this.”
Prosecutors said Tuesday that they have decided not to seek the death penalty for a man accused of killing a Venetian executive during a company picnic at Sunset Park.
Lawyers involved in the dispute over the drugs in Nevada’s lethal injection cocktail are scheduled to argue before two separate courts in the same week.
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