That’s a pot of money the federal government collects from criminal fines then divvies up among the states. The states then get money or services to residents, generally where the crimes occurred.
Deputy District Attorney Christopher Laurent found himself at a loss for words Monday, as the Nevada Supreme Court sharply questioned him about Nevada’s ridiculous medical marijuana law.
Eldorado senior Eddie Esquivel’s hopes for this cross country season are pretty straightforward.
Police are looking for two suspects who robbed and shot a person near Craig Road and Nellis Boulevard in late August.
A Las Vegas police gang unit was investigating the cause of a weekend stabbing on a walkway between two Las Vegas Strip casino-hotels that left two people injured, authorities said Monday.
Like every fighter from 140 to 154 pounds, Lucas Matthysse wants a shot at Floyd Mayweather Jr. and the big payday that comes with it.
Usually when a football team faces a third-team quarterback, that’s a good thing. That isn’t necessarily the case for UNLV, which struggled last season in going 1-4 against reserve QBs.
A newlywed wife was charged on Monday with killing her husband by pushing him off a cliff in Glacier National Park during an argument just a week after they got married.
The first day of work at the new Zappos headquarters downtown feels a lot like the start of a semester at school.
WASHINGTON – The chairman of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission said Monday she intends to take part in decision-making on the Yucca Mountain project, rejecting a call that she recuse herself.
Faced with threatened legal action from San Francisco City Attorney Dennis Herrera who accuses Nevada of busing mental patients to California, Silver State officials on Monday said evidence to support his claims is insufficient.
The sobbing wife of George Zimmerman called 911 Monday to report that her estranged husband was threatening her with a gun and had punched her father in the nose, but hours later decided not to press charges against the man acquitted of all charges for fatally shooting Trayvon Martin.
A 27-year-old accused of shooting four people on the Strip was released from house arrest and is free on bail, following a judge’s ruling Monday.
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Losing or dropping some charter contracts has slowed the growth of Allegiant Travel Co.
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Ryan Newman is replacing Martin Truex Jr. in the Chase for the Sprint Cup championship as part of NASCAR’S penalties against Michael Waltrip Racing for manipulating the outcome of last weekend’s race at Richmond.
Nevada has a new medical marijuana law on the books that next year will allow patients to legally buy the drug from a dispensary, but there are a number of people in Clark County who face the potential of life sentences for distributing cannabis under the old law.
In a rapid and remarkable chain of events, Syria welcomed the idea of turning over all of its chemical weapons for destruction on Monday, and President Barack Obama, though expressing deep skepticism, declared it a “potentially positive development” that could head off the threats of U.S. air strikes that have set the world on edge.
A Mesquite woman police say falsely claimed her 7-year-old son had cancer to collect donations was also the mother of a 12-year-old Las Vegas boy who died last year when police say his stepmother ignored his appendicitis, the Review-Journal has learned.
An Ohio driver who made an online video confessing that he caused a fatal wrong-way crash after a night of heavy drinking was charged Monday with aggravated vehicular homicide.
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