Clark County commissioners approved the appointment of Nancy Lemcke, a 23-year veteran public defender, to lead the office.
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A hearing in the Family Court case between Dylan Houston and Ashley Prince is scheduled for Wednesday afternoon. A judge may determine if media can access proceedings.
Attorneys for Nevada’s six Republican electors who submitted fake electoral documents in the aftermath of the 2020 election say the state withheld exonerating evidence from the grand jury.
A group representing sexual assault survivors are challenging a proposal back by Uber to cap the percentage of fees an attorney can collect in civil cases.
A man armed with a knife was in the midst of a mental health crisis and wrongly believed his family was dead when he was fatally shot by Las Vegas police earlier this month.
U.S. Attorney Jason Frierson became the first African-American man to serve as Nevada’s top federal law enforcement officer in April 2022.
Bob Conrad with This Is Reno has been embroiled in public records lawsuits, including one seeking answers on how a former Washoe County sheriff’s sergeant was able to alter documents to hide that he was married to two people.
The former president spoke a day before six Republicans were scheduled to be arraigned for signing certificates claiming Donald Trump won the 2020 Nevada election.
James Leavitt, 61, has alleged NSHE officials did not hire him for position he was qualified for.
The city of Las Vegas could vote Wednesday on a proposed “order out corridor” that could keep people convicted of any misdemeanor in the downtown area away from the tourist district.
Two recent lawsuits filed against the Nevada Department of Corrections allege a pattern of corrections officers allowing prisoners to be attacked by incarcerated gang members at High Desert State Prison.
In overturning a District Court ruling, justices held that shield law protections did not die with Jeff German when he was murdered in 2022.
The law increases the sentences for reckless driving resulting in substantial bodily harm or death while going more than 50 mph over the speed limit.
The Summerlin resident who proved infomercial pillow salesman Mike Lindell wrong about election fraud filed a lawsuit Friday after Lindell failed to pay him the $5 million award that a panel of arbitrators had ordered.
The FBI released 600 pages of documents related to its Las Vegas mass shooting investigation, but the names of nearly everyone involved were redacted.
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Residents throughout the Las Vegas Valley were reacting to the news that Donald Trump had become the first former president to be convicted of felony crimes.
Imprisoned for a Las Vegas fatal DUI, former NFL player Henry Ruggs is in a prison work program that placed him at the Governor’s Mansion.
Las Vegas’ budget has already taken a hit from one of the cases won by developer Yohan Lowie, whose stymied housing plans for a shuttered golf course led to extensive litigation.
The Board of School Trustees decided on an Illinois-based search firm to recommend candidates for the office.