The Nevada Department of Corrections said Pedro Mejia, 58, died Saturday at 5:42 a.m. at the Hospice Unit at the Northern Nevada Correctional Center in Carson City.
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Looking back, retired U.S. senator Harry Reid says defending Russell Payne of Las Vegas was “the most challenging and bizarre case of my lawyer life.”
A Pahrump Valley High School employee was arrested Thursday after allegedly selling methamphetamine to a 16-year-old student and another juvenile.
Nine women, including eight strippers, are seeking $15 million in a class-action lawsuit filed this week against the city of Reno.
The 12-year-old girl died after her 17-year-old brother sat on her face and throat for 45 minutes, according to authorities in New Mexico.
Nevada’s two public universities experienced spikes in reports of sexual, domestic and dating violence incidents from 2017 to 2018, according to a report to be presented this week to the Board of Regents.
Charles Gary Sullivan, the 73-year-old man charged with the 1979 killing, was extradited Friday to the Washoe County Sheriff’s jail.
A man arrested in connection with a four-decade-old slaying near Reno is suspected by authorities in two other, similar killings that took place around the same time.
Forty years after the murder of a woman whose body was found in the remote hills north of Reno, DNA evidence led Washoe County sheriff’s deputies to arrest a man in connection with the case, which is eerily similar to another unsolved murder that took place the same year.
Authorities say Juan Hernandez, 25, was dressed as the Joker and identified himself to police as the main character in the film, Arthur Fleck, when he was arrested on Oct. 27.