A federal appeals court on Thursday reversed a district judge and granted a man involved in a 1999 robbery and shootout with Las Vegas police a new hearing on a juror misconduct claim.
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The former head of Boulder City’s shelter has been indicted by Clark County grand jury on charges of animal cruelty, prosecutors said Thursday.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrested 89 “deportable” people last week in Nevada, according to a news release.
Seven-hundred inmates are being relocated from a privately operated state prison in northwest Arizona after two nights of unrest that injured eight corrections staff members and caused major damage to the campus.
The stepfather of the victim in a high-profile child murder case in Bullhead City is going to the Arizona Department of Corrections for unrelated convictions.
Police in Nye County are asking for the public’s help in locating a man they say helped rob an elderly Pahrump couple and their disabled daughter early Saturday morning.
Pfizer will pay Nevada $9.5 million to resolve the state’s claims that Pfizer and Wyeth Pharmaceuticals unlawfully promoted certain postmenopausal hormone therapy medications and misled Nevada consumers and doctors about the safety and effectiveness of those drugs, Attorney General Catherine Cortez Masto said Monday.
Police are asking for tips in their investigation of the death of Domingo Alva-Gonzalez, whose body was found floating in Lake Mohave on Wednesday.
The father of a Southern California woman found dead on the far south end of the valley said Thursday that his daughter traveled to Pahrump to visit two friends.
More than 100 personnel are searching Wednesday for an 8-year-old girl who is missing from her home in Bullhead City, Ariz. Police said the investigation of Isabella Grogan-Cannella’s disappearance is now considered a criminal matter.
A man accused of a string of five robberies in the northeast valley was indicted Wednesday by a Clark County grand jury.
A ruling from the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals finding Nevada’s ban on same-sex marriage unconstitutional could almost immediately open the floodgates to gay unions across the state, a legal analyst involved in the challenge said Wednesday.
A semi-truck driver who admitted he was speeding when he slammed into a car and tow truck on the side of a rural Northern Nevada highway apologized to the families of three victims before he was sentenced to up to four years in prison.
A man diagnosed as being paranoid schizophrenic who stabbed his mother 48 times and buried her body on her remote property in northwest Arizona pleaded guilty to second-degree murder Tuesday.
Retrieving Global Positioning System coordinates from a person’s cell phone so an arrest can be made is not an illegal search if a valid arrest warrant is obtained first, the Nevada Supreme Court said in an opinion issued Thursday.
Federal prosecutors filed court papers late Thursday asking a judge to order former power broker Harvey Whittemore to begin serving his two-year prison term for unlawfully funneling campaign contributions to U.S. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid.
Nevada federal judge nominee Richard Boulware advanced in the U.S. Senate on Thursday despite surprise opposition from Republicans who questioned his experience and his ability to become impartial.