Kim Wanker has a serious case of lead foot. Trained as a professional race car driver, she thrives on the exhilaration that comes with going fast, pedal to the metal, the high-desert scenery hurtling past her car window. For the 54-year-old Wanker, speed takes her mind off her stressful work — dealing with alleged wife-beaters, child molesters and drug abusers across central Nevada.
A 57-year-old Elko woman who is accused of killing her husband with a carving knife 12 years ago said in court last week that she and another man tried to encase his body in concrete when they buried him in a shallow grave.
Several thousand mourners, many in uniform from law enforcement agencies from around the country, gathered here on Thursday to pay respects to Carson City Sheriff’s Deputy Carl Howell, killed while responding to a domestic violence incident Saturday.
A former Nevada correctional officer who pleaded guilty to supplying inmates with marijuana has received a suspended prison sentence and placed on probation, the attorney general’s office said Thursday.
What Las Vegas police initially thought was gunfire Monday in the east valley turned out to be a pop from a piece of machinery, the agency said.
A 26-year-old Pahrump woman was arrested after Nye County sheriff’s deputies said she used a stolen debit card at several businesses there.
A 20-year prison term was imposed Friday for Robert Adkins, 53, of Kingman, Ariz., who was convicted in the beating death of his disabled roommate.
A Kingman, Ariz., man was convicted Friday in the beating death of his roommate.
An 18-year-old California man has been returned to Nevada to face charges in the July killing of a Reno teenager.
A Bullhead City police sergeant charged with sex assaults on both sides of the Colorado River sported a bloodied and swollen lip when he showed up for his arraignment Thursday in Mohave County Superior Court.
