U.S. 93 was closed in Caliente during the Friday investigation, according to a LCSO post on its Facebook page.
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No officers were injured, but few details were available.
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.
A 22-year-old man was arrested and charged with murder after he allegedly shot and killed a 37-year-old man at a North Las Vegas residence in February.
Las Vegas police officers found the body Sunday while performing a welfare check at apartment after a man with a gunshot wound to his head was dropped off at a hospital.
Motorcycle groups in Nevada had a long history of violent clashes before last month’s shooting on a Henderson highway.
Las Vegas resident and philanthropist Justin Woo said the Las Vegas Justice League has donated $5,000, which Othram Inc. will use to test the remains.
A Southern California shoe store owner opened fire at two shoplifters, police said, but mistakenly shot and wounded a 9-year-old girl. The store owner was later arrested in Clark County, authorities said.
Nye County Sheriff’s Office deputies were involved in a vehicle pursuit that culminated with an an officer-involved shooting early Monday.
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.
Wilber Ernesto Martinez Guzman, 22, agreed Thursday to plead guilty to the killings of four Nevadans as part of a deal that will put him in prison for the rest of his life
John Dabritz, 67, was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole on Tuesday for the ambush shooting last year of Jenkins near Ely.
The courtroom was packed on Thursday when three people charged in connection with the killing of 27-year-old Roy Jaggers made their first court appearance.
The man fatally shot by law enforcement south of Tonopah on Friday night told deputies they would have to kill him before pointing a gun at them, the Nye County Sheriff’s Office said.
A man suspected of shooting at Nye County deputies Thursday has died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound following the lengthy standoff, authorities said.