A 28-year-old man pleaded guilty Wednesday to voluntary manslaughter for a punch-and-fall death outside a downtown Las Vegas lounge.
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 police officer pleaded not guilty Wednesday to dozens of sexual assault and kidnapping charges involving a child.
James Melton, a veteran Metropolitan Police Department officer, faces 14 felony counts, including theft, grand larceny auto, perjury and exploitation of an older person.
A Las Vegas pain management doctor was arrested Tuesday on dozens of federal charges of health care fraud and illegal distribution of the opiod fentanyl, according to the Department of Justice.
Lawyers for Elaine Wynn on Tuesday told a judge that claims that she sought to destroy her ex-husband’s business are “outrageous” and “false.”
A California man must serve more than 12 years in federal prison for committing extortion and conspiring to burn down a Henderson business owned by his estranged common-law wife.
A teen and his mother must spend time behind bars for their roles in the fatal shooting of former Chaparral High School football player Richard Nelson, a judge ruled Thursday.
A veteran Las Vegas police officer was indicted Wednesday on more than two dozen kidnapping and sexual assault charges involving a child.
Federal prosecutors asked a judge to reconsider her decision to dismiss charges against rancher Cliven Bundy and others, while dropping an indictment against four defendants who have yet to face a jury, according to court papers filed Wednesday.
Federal authorities on Wednesday announced dozens of arrests in connection with a Henderson-based investigation into a global cybercrime ring that allegedly defrauded people around the world of more than $530 million.
The investor filed a shareholder derivative lawsuit against Steve Wynn and the company’s board of directors for allegedly “disregarding a sustained pattern of sexual harassment and egregious misconduct” by the ex-CEO.
“Instead of carving penises into rocks and public roads,” Hof created a yellow and black, diamond-shaped “Lovers at Play” street sign directing traffic toward his Nye County brothels so customers would not get lost on their pursuit of satisfying lust, the complaint states.
The widow of a Las Vegas police officer killed in the Oct. 1 massacre has filed suit against the Las Vegas Review-Journal and others, asking a judge to block media from publishing “private and confidential” information in autopsy reports of those slain.
A May disciplinary hearing has been set for Family Court Judge Rena Hughes to address allegations that she improperly held a mother in contempt of court during a custody battle.
A 16-year-old accused of sexually assaulting four classmates and blackmailing others with lewd images and threats pleaded not guilty Thursday to charges that could send him to prison for life.
