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An inmate in Northern Nevada serving a life sentence for sexual assault has died, the Nevada Corrections Department said.

They lost their bid for a new trial in the largest mortgage fraud case in Nevada. Now federal prosecutors want a judge to order former real estate broker Eve Mazzarella and her ex-husband, Steven Grimm, returned to prison to continue serving lengthy terms behind bars while they appeal their 2011 convictions.

Nevada’s appellate courts decreased their pending caseload by more than 12 percent in fiscal 2015, and the decline is expected to continue next year.

A Kingman, Arizona, judge questioned the logic of Arizona sentencing mandates Wednesday when he imposed two life prison terms plus 25 years more for a California man convicted of sex offenses involving his granddaughter.

Divers on Saturday recovered the body of a man who disappeared after jumping into Lake Havasu late Friday afternoon.

A unanimous Nevada Supreme Court on Thursday reversed the conviction of a pedestrian for being an ex-felon in possession of a firearm after determining he was illegally detained during a routine police stop in violation of his Fourth Amendment rights.

A former Nevada Transportation Department employee from Fallon has been sentenced to 18 to 48 months in state prison for his fraudulent use of a state credit card to support a gambling addiction.

Rusty gates that used to clang shut behind inmates sentenced to serve time at what was one of the West’s oldest territorial prisons might one day swing open for visitors and history buffs at the Nevada State Prison.

A Las Vegas man who police did not immediately identify was the driver involved in a fatal pedestrian-vehicle collision in northwest Arizona on Monday.