An attorney for a High Desert State Prison inmate has filed a use-of force lawsuit alleging the inmate was “sadistically and maliciously shot” by a guard in November.
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A half dozen corrections officers were hurt in a disturbance at the Arizona State Prison in northwest Arizona on Wednesday night.
Divers on Saturday recovered the body of a man who disappeared after jumping into Lake Havasu late Friday afternoon.
State and local authorities have made more than 55,000 seizures of cash and property worth $3 billion under the equitable sharing program since 2008.
A divided Nevada Supreme Court on Thursday upheld the murder conviction and death sentence of Timothy “Stone” Burnside in the 2006 fatal shooting of a former professional basketball player as he waited at the drive-thru of a Jack in the Box in Henderson.
Landry’s Inc. and Dotty’s Gaming and Spirits, among others, filed a federal lawsuit Friday in Las Vegas against Nevada Gov. Brian Sandoval and the state’s labor commissioner, Shannon Chambers.
Nevada’s specialty courts are set to expand significantly with the infusion of $3 million a year in new funding provided by the 2015 Legislature, court officials said Monday.
The Nye County Sheriff’s Office is investigating the death of a Pahrump man whose body was found behind a casino and who had recently been released from jail.
A 52-year-old man incarcerated at Northern Nevada Correctional Center died Sunday, according to the Nevada Department of Corrections.
A man was found dead behind the Pahrump Nugget Hotel and Casino Monday morning, according to sheriff’s deputies.
The lawyer for B.B. King’s longtime manager denies that his client embezzled more than $1 million from the musician during his dying days. Las Vegas attorney Brent Bryson said King’s manager, LaVerne Toney, transferred the money into King’s trust account after his death.
A 54-year-old Northern Nevada inmate serving a life sentence for first degree murder died Friday, the Nevada Department of Corrections announced.
The Nevada Supreme Court said Thursday that the state’s wiretap law permits the interception of cellphone calls and text messages even though it has not been updated since 1973.
A Kingman, Ariz., police officer was justified when he shot and killed a man holding a BB gun that looked real, the Mohave County attorney has determined.
The chairman of the Nye County Republicans who is facing a charge of impersonating a police officer actually was a Las Vegas cop for a little over a year.