A woman who fatally stabbed her mother inside their Henderson home was sentenced Friday to 14 to 35 years in prison.
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.
The Nevada Supreme Court is expected to hear oral arguments in the state prison system’s appeal of a decision that halted condemned killer Scott Dozier’s execution.
A man who is accused of shooting at seven police officers in Mesquite was indicted Thursday on multiple charges.
A former Marine was found guilty but mentally ill late Wednesday for menacing his neighbors and attacking a pastor of a Las Vegas church.
A Las Vegas judge has thrown out a defamation lawsuit lodged by ousted casino mogul Steve Wynn against The Associated Press.
Mark Georgantas, an alleged Las Vegas casino scammer, knew that skipping court on Wednesday could expose him to five times as many years in prison. Now a warrant has been issued for his arrest.
The Nevada attorney general’s office this week renewed its push to have the state’s high court lift a ban on one of the drugs chosen for Scott Dozier’s lethal injection.
A pair of defendants cleared of federal charges in the Bunkerville standoff have filed a lawsuit against prosecutors who took him to trial, along with other government authorities.
A man who went to prison in 1985 for an ax handle attack on a Henderson couple has been linked to four Colorado killings that occurred the previous year, according to a news report.
Two of the last loose ends from the sprawling Bunkerville standoff case were tied in federal court Thursday.
A Massachusetts Institute of Technology graduate who prosecutors say stored a cache of explosives in his Las Vegas home was ordered to serve four to 10 years behind bars on Thursday.
The Nevada Supreme Court is expected to decide whether drug companies can stop the Department of Corrections from using their medications in the twice-postponed execution of the condemned killer.
Former Marine Walter Laak terrorized neighbors and attacked a pastor of a Las Vegas church, prosecutors said Wednesday.
Brandon Hanson, 34, was sentenced Tuesday in Las Vegas to life in prison with the possibility of parole for killing his ex-girlfriend last year.
Attorneys general from 15 states filed court papers Monday supporting Nevada’s opposition to a drug company’s lawsuit that halted the execution of death row inmate Scott Dozier.
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