Ask Nevada officials why prisoners who have been granted parole are still behind bars, and they’ll say prisoners are refusing to leave. But their numbers don’t match, and prisoners themselves have a different answer.
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A young woman was expected to survive after being wounded in a north valley shooting Sunday afternoon, Las Vegas police said.
Two men, including a former deputy attorney general, were arrested on drug-selling charges in Pahrump on Saturday, the Nye County Sheriff’s Office said Sunday.
Las Vegas police were looking for “a person of interest” after a late Friday night shooting death in the central valley.
A bill that would appropriate nearly $1.3 million to equip 481 Nevada Highway Patrol troopers with body cameras by 2017 was amended and approved Friday by the Senate Finance Committee. Senate Bill 111 will now go to the full Senate for consideration as a Monday deadline for the 2015 session to adjourn looms.
The Nevada Supreme Court ruled on Friday that the Clark County School District could not refuse to release teacher work email addresses to the public.
The arrest of a veteran Clark County School District special education bus driver on allegations of sex crimes against “very small children” prompted Las Vegas police on Friday to establish two phone lines to take calls from others who may be victims and their parents.
A 65-year-old Las Vegas man who grew medical pot in his backyard was acquitted of two felony marijuana charges Friday.
A tractor trailer driver facing DUI charges after a head-on crash with a taxi van hid Xanex in his socks and told police he drank two bottles of wine just hours before the crash, according to his arrest report.
Federal prosecutors won’t throw in the towel in their fight to keep alive an illegal gambling case against wealthy Malaysian businessman Paul Phua.
Defense attorneys for six police officers facing criminal charges in the Freddie Gray case are seeking to have the trial moved from Baltimore, saying their clients cannot get a fair trial there, the Baltimore Sun reported on Thursday.
A man already facing dozens of charges in connection with breaking into a woman’s home, taking her family hostage and trying to rape the woman has been indicted on a murder charge, prosecutors said Friday.
One person was hospitalized and another was taken into custody after a Thursday night stabbing in downtown Las Vegas, Metro said.
Las Vegas police are seeking the public’s help in identifying a woman who injured an employee during a robbery at a Siegel Suites, according to a news release.
A Mississippi woman said her daughter had been arrested in Las Vegas on a prostitution charge but that she planned to clear her name.
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