Legislature’s Interim Finance Committee authorizes use of the funding to continue the effort to test some 7,800 untested kits — some decade old — collected after sexual assaults.
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Nevada’s chief federal judge has upheld a protective order that keeps key evidence under wraps in the Bunkerville standoff case involving the Bundy family.
A prominent organization of defense lawyers in Las Vegas this week formed a committee to explore ways of challenging local law enforcement’s methods for gaining drug convictions.
A defense lawyer in the Bunkerville standoff case has filed court papers seeking to toss out evidence obtained against his client by undercover “law enforcement agents” posing as a video production crew.
Rep. Dina Titus, D-Nev., on Thursday said the Justice Department awarded the Nevada attorney general’s office a $1,962,414 grant to continue the state’s participation in theNational Sexual Assault Kit Initiative.
The U.S. Justice Department and other agencies said on Thursday they have moved to shut down a series of mail-fraud schemes — including one out of Las Vegas — that have stolen hundreds of millions of dollars from victims in the United States.
The Henderson resident thought justice had been guaranteed after the madman behind her brother’s killing, Charles Manson, and four of his followers were sentenced to the death penalty. Then the unthinkable happened.
Thomas John Kummer became Jay Sebring about 1958 because he liked the name of the racetrack in Florida and his hair styling business was taking off.
An amended lawsuit has been filed challenging a 2007 Nevada law governing registration and community notification of sex offenders and seeking to block its implementation next month.
A key defendant in armed standoffs with law enforcement in Oregon and Nevada pleaded not guilty Wednesday to federal charges in the Nevada case.
An inmate committed suicide at High Desert State Prison on March 23, according to a release from the Nevada Department of Corrections.
An inmate was found dead in his cell early Tuesday afternoon in Lovelock Correctional Center, the Nevada Department of Corrections said in a statement.
Following a five-day retrial, a former Las Vegas mortgage agent was acquitted late Monday in what federal prosecutors alleged was a $1.2 million mortgage fraud scheme.
Federal prosecutors are pushing to keep Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy behind bars Thursday as he faces arraignment on a string of felony charges stemming from the April 2014 armed standoff with lawmen near Bunkerville.
Las Vegas police will have a presence Thursday when Cliven Bundy supporters rally outside the federal courthouse, according to Undersheriff Kevin McMahill.
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