A federal appeals court said Friday the nation’s largest private prison corporation can be held liable for negligence by a man who spent almost a year in solitary confinement at a southern Nevada facility without ever seeing a judge on marijuana-related charges.
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The man accused of killing 2-year-old Amari Nicholson was indicted by a grand jury Friday.
Federal prosecutors said the woman’s home-based business, Top One Zone LLC, exported electronic and computer components.
A three-time convicted killer on Nevada’s death row for nearly four decades had his sentence overturned for the second time.
Prosecutors in Las Vegas plan to decide soon whether to seek the death penalty for a teen accused of killing his girlfriend’s father.
The leader of a drug trafficking ring received a 15-year federal prison sentence Tuesday for selling nearly 36 pounds of methamphetamine.
The Nevada Supreme Court has reversed a lower court judge’s decision to throw out attempted murder and battery charges at the start of a trial.
The family of a 60-year-old man who was killed by a Pershing County sheriff’s deputy has filed a wrongful death lawsuit in federal court.
A Massachusetts man pleaded guilty Monday to attempting to steal trade secrets from a Nevada-based defense contractor.
A federal jury has convicted two men in a series of Las Vegas armed robberies at two banks and the same Starbucks coffeehouse twice.
A Las Vegas attorney charged with writing $400,000 worth of bad checks has been suspended from practicing law in Nevada for five years, according to a court ruling issued Friday.
A Boulder City man was convicted in a federal trial of assaulting his wife at a campground in the Lake Mead National Recreation Area.
A 16-year-old girl and her boyfriend were indicted Friday on murder charges in connection with the slaying of her father.
A Las Vegas woman who pleaded guilty to bilking North Carolina Medicaid was sentenced to more than 14 years in prison on Tuesday.
A judge outside Las Vegas rejected a bid for a new trial Wednesday from a convicted felon who alleged widespread corruption within Clark County’s justice system.