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.
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Nevada Assemblyman Ira Hansen — who recently gave up his designation as speaker for the 2015 Legislature in an uproar over his comments about women, gays and minorities — has been cleared of charges accusing him of illegal wildlife trapping.
A Washoe County judge on Tuesday approved a preliminary injunction to prohibit the ride-sharing company Uber from operating in Nevada, including Las Vegas.
A plea agreement is resolving the case against a Las Vegas man accused of foolishly driving a tour bus through raging floodwater in northwest Arizona in 2013.
A lane restriction on southbound Interstate 15 near Primm while authorities investigated a body brought heavy traffic delays for most of Sunday, according to the Nevada Highway Patrol.
An 18-year-old California man has been returned to Nevada to face charges in the July killing of a Reno teenager.
A Bullhead City police sergeant charged with sex assaults on both sides of the Colorado River sported a bloodied and swollen lip when he showed up for his arraignment Thursday in Mohave County Superior Court.
Police have arrested a 78-year-old Reno man on suspicion of murder in the stabbing death of his wife.
Lawyers on both sides of a case that has brought attention to Nevada’s stand-your-ground law told a judge Wednesday they are ready for a January trial for a man charged with murder in the shooting of an unarmed trespasser.
A Nevada prison inmate serving time for a Las Vegas murder he committed as a 14-year-old in 1998 won a pardon Tuesday that will make him eligible for mandatory parole in January.
It took 42 years and five trips to the ballot box before Nevada voters agreed to establish an intermediate appellate court. Now state officials are on a fast track to get the court up and running to begin hearing cases as early as January.
A marijuana bust in a remote mountain range in northeast Nye County netted $34 million worth of plants, according to estimates from sheriff’s deputies there.
A state panel voted unanimously Wednesday to approve $782,500 to fund the new state appeals court that is expected to begin operations early next year. Approval came as 36 applicants filed for one of the three new court positions by a 5 p.m. deadline.
A Nevada inmate died over the weekend in what prison officials called a “medical episode.” Kirt Robinson, 57, died at the medical center in the Northern Nevada Correctional Center. Prison officials released no details about his death.
A Gardnerville woman has been sentenced to six to 20 years in prison for the December 2013 shooting death of her male roommate.
Las Vegas is largely defined by its ability to defy expectations, and recent forecasts predicting a decline in its appeal to younger travelers are no exception. Contrary to these gloomy predictions, which suggest that an aging core visitor base might render the city’s 150,000 hotel rooms less appealing to new generations, the reality is strikingly […]
Researchers are looking for people in the Las Vegas Valley with loved ones who have the disease also known as juvenile diabetes.
A Las Vegas woman faces a murder charge after police allege she intentionally struck her boyfriend with her car, according to court records.
The study looks at rental cost burdens and finds the Las Vegas metro and the entire state have some of the highest costs in the entire country
A fire that has been burning through Red Rock Canyon since Monday has been fully contained, according to the Bureau of Land Management.