A panel of the Nevada Supreme Court on Wednesday reversed a lower district court and ordered it to compel the state’s chief medical officer to examine and report on the nutritional adequacy of the diet of prison inmates as required by state law.
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The Nevada Supreme Court on Wednesday gave a victory to the city of Reno in its decision in May to lay off 32 firefighters after federal funding that supported their positions ran out.
Rusty gates that used to clang shut behind inmates sentenced to serve time at what was one of the West’s oldest territorial prisons might one day swing open for visitors and history buffs at the Nevada State Prison.
The Arizona Supreme Court on Thursday overturned the death sentence of a Kingman man who was convicted of first-degree murder.
Three Lake Havasu City police officers were justified when they opened fire Nov. 23, killing a Lake Havasu City man who pointed his firearm at them, the Kingman Police Department determined after an independent review of the incident.
A police report provides new details in one of the cases against former Bullhead City, Ariz., police Sgt. Jesse Hoag who is accused of forcing himself upon two women he met at the same Laughlin bar during separate October incidents.
Southern Nevadans who say they lost thousands of dollars to a pyramid scheme run by Herbalife called on Nevada’s attorney general Thursday to investigate the company, which sells nutritional and weight-loss products.
A 90-day jail sentence was imposed Thursday for a police officer’s wife and former dispatcher who looted funds while serving as treasurer of the Bullhead City Police Officer’s Association in Arizona.
A Bullhead City, Ariz., police sergeant facing prosecution for sex offenses on both sides of the Colorado River has resigned his position.
A mentally troubled Lake Havasu City, Ariz., man who pleaded no contest in the beating death of his wife was sentenced to 20 years in prison Tuesday.
An Alaska man has been ordered to pay almost $2,500 for a fine and court cost associated with federal prosecution for dumping refuse into the Colorado River and illegally collecting firewood in violation of his non-commercial private rafting trip permit.
An autopsy report in the September death of 8-year-old Isabella “Bella” Grogan-Cannella in Bullhead City made no conclusion as to sexual assault, but noted that there was a hemorrhage within the victim’s vaginal wall.
The cost to incarcerate a juvenile in Nevada’s most expensive correctional facility for youth was about $195, 406 in fiscal year 2014, according to a report released Tuesday.
All 78 state courts are now reporting dispositions to the state criminal information repository, but it will take until mid-2018 to erase a backlog of nearly 900,000 old records, state lawmakers were told Monday.
Nine finalists for three judgeships on the new Nevada Court of Appeals were named Thursday.
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