A federal judge has refused to throw out a key charge against two men accused of storming the U.S. Capitol to obstruct the Electoral College vote certification proceedings.
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Federal authorities say Josiah Kenyon, 34, of Winnemucca attacked police and broke into the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 as lawmakers were certifying the presidential election.
The former owner of the Alpine Motel Apartments, the site of the deadliest residential fire in Las Vegas city history, filed a lawsuit Tuesday against people he claimed “are more directly responsible.”
A federal judge heard testimony Thursday regarding firing squad methods during an evidentiary hearing on Nevada’s proposed plan to execute death row inmate Zane Floyd.
Day two of a three-day evidentiary hearing regarding Nevada’s plan to execute death row inmate Zane Floyd began Wednesday morning in federal court.
A Las Vegas business executive facing a voting fraud charge related to the 2020 election is expected to enter a guilty plea during a court hearing Tuesday.
Nevada’s death row houses 64 inmates. Some of them have killed multiple people, including children. Others ended the lives of elderly victims. Some shot police officers or strangers, while others stabbed someone they knew.
Nevada’s death row houses 64 convicted killers, all men, most of whom have been awaiting execution for more than two decades.
An Idaho man who served prison time for his role in the 2014 Bunkerville standoff before charges against him were thrown out has sued the federal government for $100 million.
A Nevada federal court ruling that held a deportation law unconstitutional is likely headed for appellate scrutiny because of the broad implications it would have on immigration cases, legal experts said.
District Attorney Steve Wolfson announced Thursday that he will seek re-election in 2022.
District Judge Elizabeth Gonzalez, who served on the bench for 17 years, has submitted her resignation effective later this year.
Within days, Nevada prison officials could finalize their execution protocol and disclose the lethal injection cocktail planned for the capital punishment of Zane Floyd.
Recently retired District Judge Valerie Adair, a Las Vegas native who spent nearly two decades on the bench, died this weekend at the age of 56.
At the root of the issue is the state’s consumer protection statutes that limit title loans to 210 days and prohibit a loan to exceed the fair market value of the vehicle.