Nevada’s two public universities experienced spikes in reports of sexual, domestic and dating violence incidents from 2017 to 2018, according to a report to be presented this week to the Board of Regents.
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Charles Gary Sullivan, the 73-year-old man charged with the 1979 killing, was extradited Friday to the Washoe County Sheriff’s jail.
The team, which is made up of five Metro police officers, three Nevada Highway Patrol troopers and one Metro sergeant, made its 1,000th arrest on Oct. 3.
All six shots fired by SWAT officers at an attempted robbery suspect who pointed a weapon at police following an hourslong standoff struck the suspect, police said Thursday.
After 33 years on Nevada’s death row, Paul Browning was released Wednesday morning from Ely State Prison.
Air Force Staff Sgt. Kenneth DeLongchamp received the Airman’s Medal on Friday, one of just a few to receive the award for nonservice-related action.
On the eve of Independence Day, a Las Vegas judge ordered 200,000 pounds of fireworks returned to the owner, who must haul the explosives out of Clark County.
Two Las Vegas residents are facing charges after leading officers on a chase and violently resisting arrest in Nye County.
A former security guard for the Nevada National Security Site filed a federal civil rights lawsuit against a government security contractor Monday.
Nevada law enforcement officials on Thursday issued search warrants to five medical professionals suspected of illegally prescribing and dispensing pharmaceuticals such as opioids.
Tanner Reynolds remembers the stinging pain of the gravel, cold from the winter air, rubbing against his face that day in December. “This isn’t right,” he recalled thinking to himself.
Pahrump mother Nicole Bayer recalled her son’s experience at Northwest Academy during an interview Saturday, two days after news broke that the Armagosa Valley private boarding school is now the subject of an ongoing child abuse investigation.
A teacher at a private boarding school in Amargosa Valley has been arrested on a child abuse charge, and an investigation has revealed that the school’s water is contaminated with arsenic.
A man was fatally shot by a security guard and a Nye County deputy on Monday after driving through the Nevada National Security Site’s main gate, but there’s no body-worn camera footage of the shooting because of federal regulations, the sheriff’s office said Wednesday.
Michael Russell had completed three stints in California and Nevada prisons before he was 35, unaware that later in life, he’d one day make history as the first convicted felon to be employed with the Nevada Department of Corrections.