Man guilty of 5 murders in 2013 killing-arson spree

A 27-year-old Nevada man has been convicted of five capital murders during a killing spree east of Reno two years ago. A state court jury in Yerington found Jeremiah Bean guilty Tuesday on five counts of first-degree murder. He also was convicted of arson, burglary, robbery and larceny charges. Bean faces the death penalty at his sentencing hearing beginning Aug. 4. The convicted felon initially agreed to a plea deal that would have spared him from possible execution. But he changed his mind an