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Lovelock Correctional Center inmate found dead in cell

An inmate was found dead in his cell early Tuesday afternoon in Lovelock Correctional Center, the Nevada Department of Corrections said in a statement.

Prosecutors want Bundy’s detention hearing canceled

Federal prosecutors want to call off Thursday’s detention hearing for rancher Cliven Bundy on charges stemming from the April 2014 armed standoff with law enforcement near Bunkerville.

Nevada’s most-reversed federal judge should call it quits

It’s time for Senior U.S. District Judge Robert Clive Jones to retire. He’s the most-appealed and most-reversed federal judge in Nevada, according to the legal research service Westlaw.

 
Obama nominates federal judge Merrick Garland to Supreme Court

President Barack Obama nominated appeals court judge Merrick Garland to the Supreme Court on Wednesday, thrusting a respected moderate jurist and former prosecutor into the center of an election-year clash over the future of the nation’s highest court.

New Corrections Department director named

Gov. Brian Sandoval on Wednesday picked a veteran corrections administrator from out of state to take the helm of Nevada’s beleagured prison system.

Police seek man in fatal shooting Monday night

The Metropolitan Police Department is searching for a person of interest in connection with a fatal shooting Monday night.