On Sunday, police released a “digitally enhanced picture” of the boy. Police said due to the location of the body, the boy may have lived in Las Vegas, Pahrump, Baker, Calif., or other nearby cities.
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A federal appeals court said Friday the nation’s largest private prison corporation can be held liable for negligence by a man who spent almost a year in solitary confinement at a southern Nevada facility without ever seeing a judge on marijuana-related charges.
The body of a young boy was found off the highway between Las Vegas and Pahrump on Friday morning. Police are asking anyone with information to contact detectives.
Data from Las Vegas police shows there were 57 percent fewer recruits last year compared with 2019, and many other local police departments showed a similar trend.
A Russian man was sentenced Monday to what amounted to time already served and will be deported after pleading guilty to trying to pay a Tesla employee $500,000 to install computer malware at the company’s Nevada electric battery plant in a bid to steal company secrets for ransom.
The family of a 60-year-old man who was killed by a Pershing County sheriff’s deputy has filed a wrongful death lawsuit in federal court.
Authorities say a motorist who argued with a motorcycle rider about reckless driving was shot to death in a Walmart parking lot in Mohave County, Arizona, Wednesday evening.
The Innocence Center of Nevada, which announced its launch this week, is expected to start examining claims of innocence in criminal cases next month.
A recently published report shows that a primary caregiver’s partner — typically a mother’s boyfriend — was identified as the suspect in more than half of child abuse and neglect cases in Clark County in fiscal 2016.
Nevada law requires police to have specific information about an abductor or a vehicle used in the abduction before an alert can be issued. Police didn’t have either during their search for 2-year-old Amari Nicholson.
The Nevada Legislature is considering a bill that would require any police officer who interacts with the public to be equipped with a body camera.
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.
A 62-year-old man on death row for the 1985 torture-killing of his 4-year-old stepdaughter died in a Clark County prison on Monday.
Nevada prison officials have yet to establish how they plan to kill condemned prisoner Zane Floyd.
It took decades to find a break in the case. But after 27 years on the lam, a tip from the victim’s family led to the extradition of a Nevada fugitive.
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The early June heat wave may set a record for the earliest 110-degree reading at the Las Vegas airport. Area cooling centers will be open Wednesday through Friday.
Two victims killed after a wrong-way driver struck their vehicle Saturday near Boulder City were identified as Arizona residents.
The popular Las Vegas restaurant, led by a James Beard Award nominee, celebrates the cooking of Shanghai and is famous for its xiaolongbao dumplings.
Five people were treated for minor injuries after a six-car accident Sunday on U.S. 95 and South Decatur Boulevard, including one car that rolled over.
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