Wed Nov 11, 2009 3:46 PM EST
Six Hells Angels motorcycle club locations were raided Wednesday in an investigation of a brawl that left two people with stab wounds at a Las Vegas wedding chapel nearly a year ago, police said.
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Tue Oct 27, 2009 3:39 PM EDT
Lawyers for the political advocacy group ACORN and a former voter registration supervisor pleaded not guilty Tuesday to illegally paying canvassers to register Nevada voters during last year's presidential campaign.
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Tue Oct 20, 2009 4:11 PM EDT
The doctor being investigated in Michael Jackson's death told a court he can't afford to pay $13,000 in child support and other debts because he was forced to close his medical practice after physical threats against him and his staff, according to court documents obtained Friday.
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Mon Oct 19, 2009 1:21 PM EDT
A 53-year-old unemployed house painter apologized to his victims before he was sentenced Monday to 26 to 90 years in prison for opening fire with a handgun and wounding four people in a Las Vegas Strip casino more than two years ago.
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Fri Oct 16, 2009 8:06 PM EDT
O.J. Simpson's convicted co-defendant got a fair trial and wasn't a victim of "spillover prejudice" as he alleges in his appeal, a prosecutor told the Nevada Supreme Court on Friday.
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Sun Sep 27, 2009 1:00 PM EDT
Daniel Bogden never really got a good answer why President George W. Bush fired him from his post as U.S. attorney for Nevada in 2006. But it doesn't matter to Bogden anymore. He's got his old job back.
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Tue Sep 15, 2009 4:47 PM EDT
Former "Hollywood Madam" Heidi Fleiss' Las Vegas dog grooming business has been shut down by a judge as part of a civil lawsuit, two days after she was sentenced to three years probation on felony drug charges.
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Tue Sep 15, 2009 1:57 PM EDT
Zakes Mokae, the Tony-winning South African actor best known for his work with playwright Athol Fugard in such apartheid dramas as "The Blood Knot" and "Master Harold ... and the boys," has died at the age of 75.
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Fri Sep 4, 2009 4:57 PM EDT
The Nevada Supreme Court denied O.J. Simpson's request Friday to be let out of prison pending a decision on the appeal of his conviction in a gunpoint heist in a Las Vegas hotel room.
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Thu Sep 3, 2009 2:53 PM EDT
A Nevada woman who was abducted and raped in 1976 by California kidnapping suspect Phillip Garrido said Thursday she believes he deserves the death penalty, although his crimes wouldn't qualify him.
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Tue Aug 18, 2009 7:01 PM EDT
A prosecutor opened his case Friday against two men accused in a deadly bombing by showing jurors video of the casino parking structure blast and a replica of the small pipe bomb that caused it.
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Wed Jul 29, 2009 12:12 PM EDT
Dr. Conrad Murray was in dire financial shape when he signed on as Michael Jackson's personal physician earlier this year at $150,000 a month.
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Sun Jul 19, 2009 4:13 PM EDT
Few in Nevada legal circles believe O.J. Simpson has any real chance at freedom when the state's Supreme Court justices consider letting him trade a prison cell in rural northern Nevada for a golf course in Miami while he appeals his conviction in a gunpoint hotel room heist.
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Tue Jul 7, 2009 2:28 PM EDT
A Nevada jury found an unemployed house painter guilty of 51 of 52 felony charges against him in a shooting inside a Las Vegas Strip casino two years ago.
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Wed Jul 1, 2009 3:34 PM EDT
Two more defendants have been named in a federal cocaine trafficking case stemming from the kidnapping of a 6-year-old boy from his Las Vegas home last October.
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Mon Jun 29, 2009 8:09 PM EDT
A state Supreme Court panel will hear oral arguments on O.J. Simpson's bid to get out of a Nevada prison pending his appeal to overturn a conviction in an armed hotel room heist, officials said Monday.
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Mon Jun 29, 2009 4:08 PM EDT
The federal government's top land steward said Monday that the United States will fast-track efforts to build solar power generating facilities on public space in six Western states.
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Thu Jun 18, 2009 8:20 PM EDT
The owner of a Canada-based dating Web site says he was jilted when he tried to place an advertisement in Nevada's largest newspaper to capitalize on U.S. Sen. John Ensign's extramarital affair.
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Tue Jun 9, 2009 4:24 PM EDT
A doctor who treated Danny Gans said Friday the Las Vegas Strip headliner had a prescription five years ago for the potent painkiller blamed in his death but declined a similar prescription just a few months ago.
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Mon Jun 8, 2009 5:25 PM EDT
A federal judge in Las Vegas has ordered a man be transferred to Utah to face a charge of threatening President Barack Obama, even as the man's defense attorney and family pleaded that the suspect get mental health treatment.
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Fri Jun 5, 2009 4:42 PM EDT
O.J. Simpson poses a flight risk and shouldn't be allowed out of prison while the Nevada Supreme Court decides whether to overturn his conviction in an armed hotel room heist, a prosecutor said Friday.
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Thu May 28, 2009 12:58 PM EDT
A former golfing buddy of O.J. Simpson on Thursday appealed to overturn his conviction in an armed hotel room heist, saying he suffered "spillover prejudice" from being tried with the former NFL football star.
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Tue May 26, 2009 2:27 PM EDT
O.J. Simpson has appealed to the Nevada Supreme Court to overturn his convictions for armed robbery and kidnapping during a a Las Vegas hotel room confrontation with two sports memorabilia dealers.
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Fri May 22, 2009 4:38 PM EDT
O.J. Simpson has switched lawyers on the eve of his appeal to the Nevada Supreme Court to reverse his conviction in an armed hotel room heist, his former attorney said Friday.
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Tue May 19, 2009 10:40 PM EDT
A prominent Nebraska philanthropist accused of failing to repay $14.75 million to Las Vegas casinos is claiming he was plied with drinks and drugs while he ran up big gambling debts.
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