A Romanian man was sentenced to eight years and one month in federal prison and a Russian woman got almost six years for scamming victims out of more than $4.4 million by selling non-existent cars over the Internet.
A federal magistrate declined to order a psychological evaluation for a teenager accused of proclaiming himself a militia leader, collecting guns and explosives and talking about staging a mass casualty attack in Las Vegas.
Officials have banned backpacks at a Henderson high school in a move district officials say is meant to calm families and students jittery after recent shootings.
The House Ethics Committee has concluded that congresswoman Shelley Berkley of Nevada violated House rules and laws by using her official position to benefit her husband's medical practice.
The parents of three children killed in a Las Vegas mobile home fire are accused of being too impaired by methamphetamine to rescue their sleeping children from the blaze.
A grand jury that heard evidence decided not to indict a Las Vegas police officer who opened fire and killed an unarmed and disabled Gulf War veteran in a car pinned with its tires spinning between two police cruisers a little more than a year ago.
The 20-year-old Rhode Islander who brought the Miss Universe crown back to the U.S. for the first time in 15 years is hoping that her quick rise through the beauty pageant ranks and onstage stumble will show women that anything is possible.
A 20-year-old Boston University sophomore and a self-described "cellist-nerd" brought the Miss Universe crown back to the United States for the first time in more than a decade when she won the televised contest Wednesday.
Nevada public safety officials say they think the state is better prepared for disasters and diseases than the low ranking it received in a national report.
A 48-year-old driver pleaded guilty to misdemeanor vehicular manslaughter and was sentenced to 60 days in jail in an NV Energy truck crash that killed the wife of a Nellis Air Force Base airman and injured two other women.
An Illinois man who fatally wounded a concierge clerk and killed himself at a Las Vegas Strip casino harbored anger about their breakup more than two years ago.
A veteran Las Vegas attorney and 2008 state judicial candidate is going to federal prison for almost three years for evading federal income taxes in 1994 and 1996.
Authorities have identified a 31-year-old gunman who fatally wounded a concierge desk worker and killed himself at a Las Vegas Strip casino hotel as Edward C. Brandt of Lake Forest, Ill.
