Surrounded by a crush of news cameras, Antioco Carrillo and Theo Small grinned and posed with the single-page document they'd fought two years to obtain. "It's a dream ...
Gay couples hoping to marry in Las Vegas experience 'roller coaster ride'
Wednesday, Oct. 8, 2014
Anna Singson and Georgia Covey had planned a surprise wedding after same-sex marriage was suddenly legalized in Nevada late Tuesday. But a flurry of legal wrangling has since spread confusion and uncertainty over whether gay couples can wed, forcing them to ...
Gay-rights advocates and politicians scrambled to assemble in downtown Las Vegas Tuesday evening for a surprise celebration of the state's sudden legalization of ...
As an American landmark, the Strip is in the limelight. That’s true for tourists, but also for terrorists. The question for Metro Police is: When terror threats emerge, how should police share them without needlessly scaring tourists and residents? Two recent but vague ...
The campaign for Nevada attorney general is a relatively dynamic race in an otherwise lackluster election season. Secretary of State Ross Miller and lawyer Adam Laxalt ...
The cash-strapped North Las Vegas Police Department, which hasn't hired a new officer in five years, is getting a $1.6 million boost from the U.S. Justice Department to enlist 13 new recruits, the city announced today. Officials vowed to use the grant to hire ...
A Nevada Supreme Court Justice has assembled a panel of dignitaries to examine perceived deficiencies in Clark County’s child welfare system and courts. Justice Nancy Saitta created the committee to ...
Over the past 25 years, Las Vegas’ population has flipped from three-fourths white to one primarily made up of minorities. The city’s police force hasn’t ...
Clark County voters will decide this fall whether to keep District Attorney Steve Wolfson as their top prosecutor. Wolfson, a Democrat, doesn’t face much ...
Tesla Motors chose Northern Nevada as the location for its lithium-ion battery plant. In five minutes, we’ll make you an expert on what a lithium-ion battery is, how it’s made and the difference between it and your standard Duracell. Actually, this one’s pretty complex, so maybe 10 minutes. ...
Nevada ranks sixth in the nation in the rate of women killed by men, according to a new study published by a gun control advocacy group. A nationwide analysis of 2012 homicide data ...
Sporting rainbow tie-dye shirts, Paul Juhala and Larry Dominguez were all smiles Monday afternoon as they contemplated the three-hour hearing they'd just watched live from a federal courtroom ...
The program, dubbed the Collaborative Reform Initiative, will investigate operations at the St. Louis County Police Department. A separate civil rights probe, meanwhile, will examine allegations of ...
They sang hymns, lit candles and hoisted cardboard signs Thursday evening beneath a statue of Martin Luther King as the sun dipped into a fiery horizon. Reacting to the Aug. 9 shooting, the 200 people ...
A group of community activists plans to gather Thursday night in Las Vegas to commemorate Michael Brown, the unarmed black teenager shot and killed by a white police officer in Ferguson, Mo. The group has ...
A resolution is in sight in a two-year rent dispute between the owners of Radio City Pizzeria and the slowly developing Tivoli Village at Queensridge. Clark County District Court Judge Gloria Sturman this week is expected to ...
For decades, Michael Pescetta has sought to help dozens of defendants facing Nevada’s often imposed yet seldom used death penalty. And in a state with a per capita death penalty rate that ranks fourth in the country ...
A Las Vegas judge today set bail at $50,000 for a former prison guard facing felony charges for allegedly smuggling cellphones into the cell of an inmate awaiting trial in a deadly Strip shooting and crash. The judge also ordered ...
A woman accused of carrying out a crime spree in a southeast valley neighborhood that left two people dead pleaded not guilty today in Clark County District Court. Natasha Jackson, 35, faces charges that...
A cigarette sparked a fire this afternoon inside a hotel room at the Cosmopolitan. The blaze erupted inside a trash can at 1:12 p.m., causing an estimated ...
A former UFC fighter known as War Machine wanted in an attack on his former girlfriend and porn star Christy Mack was arrested today at an Extended Stay America hotel in ...
A former department head with the Clark County School District pleaded not guilty today to 52 charges related to the theft of nearly $300,000 from her employer. Priscilla Rocha is accused of...
Jason Griffith was sentenced today to a maximum of life in a Nevada prison, the latest chapter in a headline-grabbing case involving two former Las Vegas Strip performers, one of whom ...
A suspenseful day awaits two mothers preparing to meet on opposite ends of a Clark County courtroom on Wednesday for the sentencing of Jason Griffith, a performer convicted of killing his ...
Priscilla Rocha, director of the district's Adult English Language Acquisition program, is one of five people named in the indictment issued today by a county grand jury. Rocha faces charges that include burglary, theft …
A man accused of firing a gun at the Excalibur during a scuffle with members of the Thunder From Down Under male revue will face trial for a second time in...
A man facing the death penalty in the robbery, pistol-whipping and fatal shooting of a 75-year-old woman will be tried next year in Clark County District Court. Bayzle Morgan, 22, is accused of...
The legal web in which Raul “Sparks” Gonzalez is entangled is a complicated one, bound together by his lengthy criminal history that includes a voluntary manslaughter conviction in 1999, alleged gang ties and his willingness to …
An internal investigation showed they improperly orchestrated the release of convicted killer Raul "Sparks" Gonzalez from jail weeks before he allegedly killed another man ...
Dabbing tears from her eyes, a former Las Vegas strip club dancer pleaded guilty today to driving under the influence of alcohol on her way home from work when her Hummer H2 collided with another vehicle last year, killing ...
Characterizing herself as a virtuous, doting mother who is routinely victimized by loved ones, Linda Cooney stood shackled in a Clark County courtroom this morning and pleaded for ...
The complaint comes less than three months after a pair of families sued the district for allegedly failing to protect their children from chronic taunting by other students. One of the families said their son considered …
A dancer in Excalibur's male strip revue “Thunder From Down Under” testified that he and at least five other performers struggled to subdue a man accused of breaking into ...
Opening statements in the trial of a man accused of sparking a scuffle and firing a gun as he tried to steal costumes and props from members of the "Thunder From Down Under" male revue are expected …
The greatest lesson Edward Bevilacqua has given his ex-felon students likely came when the instructor nearly lost his teaching job over his own criminal past. The lesson for Bevilacqua's students? Second chances …
The trial for a pair of men accused of posing as Moron missionaries and muscling their way into a Las Vegas house to carry out an armed robbery has been delayed for a second time. At the request of prosecutors...
Three Las Vegas families are entitled to a trial on their claims that Metro Police officers violated their constitutional rights by entering a home without a warrant, holding a group of teenagers inside at gunpoint and fatally shooting ...
A judge rejected efforts to halt a trio of newly passed liquor ordinances, dealing a blow to a lawsuit filed against Las Vegas by a souvenir and liquor shop at ...
A man sentenced to five years' probation for plotting to kidnap Metro Police officers in order to advance his anti-government ideologies was arrested last month for obstructing a sidewalk with ...
Among the more surprising ways Nevada's two-year statute of limitations protects defendants from excessive litigation is by actually dissuading potential plaintiffs by giving them …
A man who has been free on bail while awaiting trial in the beating of a limousine driver failed to show up for a court hearing today, prompting a judge to issue a warrant for his arrest. Emilio Ruvalcaba, who faces charges of...
The trial of a man accused of gunning down a Metro Police officer during a botched robbery at the officer’s home in North Las Vegas has been set for Nov. 10, nine days short of the fifth anniversary of...
A federal judge today ruled that a lawsuit against a Metro Police officer who shot a man in his garage four years ago may proceed, rejecting efforts from the police department's attorneys to ...
Processing each payment manually as the documents traveled from judges to attorneys to court staff was once a cumbersome, headache-inducing process that …
Clark County District Judge David Barker today set a new trial date for Gloria Lee and Kirk Bills, who are accused of setting the Prince and Princess Pet Boutique ablaze on …