Ex-politician tells a Nevada jury he didn’t kill a Las Vegas investigative reporter

LAS VEGAS (AP) — A former Las Vegas-area politician standing trial for the killing of an investigative reporter who wrote articles critical of him spent a rambling final hour speaking for himself on the witness stand Thursday before abruptly ending his testimony with a declaration that he never killed anyone.

“I am not the kind of person who would stab someone. I would never beat anybody up,” Robert Telles told the jury on his second day of testimony in his trial in the death of Las Vegas Review-Journal reporter Jeff German.