A 19-year-old Las Vegas woman faced a judge on a murder charge in connection with the disappearance of a woman whose remains were found in Henderson.
Katelyn Newberg
Katelyn joined the Las Vegas Review-Journal’s metro desk in June after graduating from the University of Florida. She previously worked with the paper in the summer of 2017 as an intern on the business desk. Before graduating college she was the editor in chief of the Independent Florida Alligator. She was born and raised in Orlando, Florida.
A change in Nevada law has allowed the Las Vegas Justice Court to establish it’s own mental health court, replicating an existing program in District Court.
The Nevada Supreme Court issued an order declining to rule on the merits of the petition filed by Nathan Chasing Horse’s public defenders.
Prosecutors are seeking a $250,000 bail and electronic monitoring for three of the four teenagers being tried as adults.
Defense attorneys for two of the teenagers arrested in connection with the death of 17-year-old Jonathan Lewis have filed paperwork asking for their clients to be released from custody while they await trial.
Marvin Patterson had been arrested last year on charges of child sexual assault and lewdness against a child, Clark County District Attorney Steve Wolfson said.
Records of dozens of 911 calls show the frantic moments after a gunman opened fire on UNLV’s campus.
Slain UNLV professors Naoko Takemaru, Patricia Navarro Velez and Cha-Jan “Jerry” Chang were each remembered fondly by their grief-stricken colleagues.
A veteran professor of operations management and supply is the suspect in the fatal shooting on the UNLV campus.
Court hearings were delayed Wednesday for four young teenagers arrested in connection with the fatal group beating of a Rancho High School student.
Ronnie Macias, who pleaded guilty to a DUI charge, was arrested last year after police said he rammed into a motorcyclist on a Henderson highway.
A man accused of a DUI crash that killed two Nevada Highway Patrol troopers appeared in court again on Tuesday morning.
Nancy Allf announced Monday that she will retire in January after serving nearly 13 years on the bench in Clark County District Court.
A man and woman indicted on murder charges are accused of a string of robberies, including one in which they allegedly gave a man a fatal dose of fentanyl.
Chief Deputy District Attorney Shanon Clowers said the driver, Jemarcus Williams, was “heavily intoxicated” at the Palms casino shortly before the crash.