Las Vegas police violated the Nevada Public Records Act when they failed to provide investigative files to the Review-Journal.
Courts
The opinion from the Nevada Supreme Court stems from a lawsuit filed by a woman who claimed she was subject to a “demeaning and humiliating” strip search while visiting a Nevada prison.
Three years and two dozen motions later, a federal court in Las Vegas will hear a federal lawsuit Monday that seeks to block the Southern Nevada Water Authority from siphoning groundwater from a 300-mile swath of eastern Nevada.
Former water officials Robert Coache and Michael E. Johnson were found guilty in connection with a $1.3 million bribery scheme to help a wealthy Bunkerville landowner sell water rights to the Southern Nevada Water Authority.
A woman who is convinced that a distant relative killed her daughter 13 months ago said she is overwhelmed by the tragedy and community condemnation.
A Boulder City man thought he was hearing firecrackers Sunday night, but with shouts and more pops, he knew something much more serious was happening. Later, his neighbor was dead.
The Clark County district attorney’s office said Thursday it will not prosecute a former Bullhead City, Ariz. police sergeant for an alleged sexual assault in Laughlin last October. The announcement came at a Laughlin Justice Court arraignment hearing for Jesse Hoag, 37.
Darren Mack feared for his life when he turned himself in to authorities in Mexico after he killed his estranged wife and shot a judge in Reno in 2006, according to retiring Washoe County District Attorney Richard Gammick.
A Kingman, Ariz., schoolteacher vindicated at trial Wednesday expressed relief and was critical of the decision to prosecute him for sex crimes alleged by a Boulder City teenager.
A 58-year-old inmate with a chronic medical condition died Sunday at the High Desert State Prison, according to the Nevada Department of Corrections.
Journalists will not be allowed to use cameras to cover legal proceedings in the prosecution of a Bullhead City, Ariz., man charged in the strangulation of his friend’s young daughter.
A motorcyclist died after an an altercation with deputies during a traffic stop Friday night, according to the Mohave County Sheriff’s Department.
A man has pleaded guilty to first-degree murder in the April 2013 beating death of Nevada’s chief insurance examiner in Carson City.
The man who was killed by Henderson police on Tuesday was identified by the Clark County coroner’s office on Monday as Jesse Vigil, 51.
A judge has found a 73-year-old Sparks man competent to stand trial for murder in the fatal shooting of an unarmed trespasser the former schoolteacher insists was justified under Nevada’s “stand your ground” law.
