Local police departments are citing a new 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruling to deny access to mugshots of people arrested and accused of committing crimes.
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U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland addressed reporters on Monday before meeting with law enforcement officials in Las Vegas.
Pahrump Justice of the Peace and former Las Vegas City Councilwoman Michele Fiore appeared in federal court, following her indictment on wire fraud and conspiracy charges.
A Las Vegas man was acquitted of charges that the Bureau of Land Management officers used to justify a questionable fatal police shooting last year in the desert northwest of Las Vegas.
Jurors heard closing arguments in the murder trial for a man accused of helping to torture and kill a man in Pahrump in 2021.
A 44-year-old nurse at the Never Give Up Youth Healing Center was arrested on suspicion of child abuse, according to an arrest report.
Las Vegas police violated the Nevada Public Records Act when they failed to provide investigative files to the Review-Journal.
The Nevada Department of Corrections prison owes more than $460,000 in attorney fees and about $7,500 to a prisoner who was denied cataract surgery.
The opinion from the Nevada Supreme Court stems from a lawsuit filed by a woman who claimed she was subject to a “demeaning and humiliating” strip search while visiting a Nevada prison.
Motorcycle groups in Nevada had a long history of violent clashes before last month’s shooting on a Henderson highway.
Mesquite’s chief of police filed a defamation lawsuit against a former reporter, but the two have reached an undisclosed settlement.
A federal judge on Tuesday sentenced a member of the Fort McDermitt Paiute and Shoshone Tribe to life in prison for the murders of two women on tribal land.
“My thing is really that nobody should go through this alone,” said Julia Lazareck, president of Prison Families Alliance.
In Nevada, 31 game wardens are responsible for patrolling about 110,000 square miles of land. Almost everyone they encounter is armed.
Day two of a three-day evidentiary hearing regarding Nevada’s plan to execute death row inmate Zane Floyd began Wednesday morning in federal court.