Experts said District Judge Jessica Peterson’s initial restrictions amounted to an unconstitutional gag order.
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Video footage from J.E. Manch Elementary School showed the aide dragging a student 30 feet down a hallway after refusing to leave a classroom, police said.
Tyler Johns, 22, is charged with murder in the Nov. 14 death of Brandon Dominguez-Chavarria.
Christian Moniz Rabino was sentenced to no more than five years’ probation after he pleaded to involuntary manslaughter in the death of Kai Tesoro.
The fourth grade teacher told police that he had a crush on his student and gave into his urges to touch the boy by grabbing his genitals, according to his arrest report.
A man who was arrested for killing a police officer in Northern Nevada in 2001 was found dead in his prison cell on Friday.
The State Bar of Nevada on Friday began the process of disciplining convicted former lobbyist Harvey Whittemore. It filed a petition formally notifying the Nevada Supreme Court of Whittemore’s conviction and judgment.
A 2010 rape conviction against Kenneth Simmons of Las Vegas has been tossed out by the Nevada Supreme Court because the jury panel included only two African-American members.
Erin Brockovich-Ellis has quietly ended her drunken boating case, pleading no contest to boating while intoxicated charges on Aug. 28, court records show. She was fined $750 and ordered her to complete an online boater safety course and 25 hours of community service.
Lyon County prosecutors say they will seek the death penalty for the 25-year-old man accused of killing five people in Fernley and Mustang in May.
A state board next week will consider a six-figure financial settlement with a former inmate whose ankles were shackled while she was in labor in 2011.
Two years before police said Juanita Carr had her 11-year-old son set fire to her van because it wasn’t working properly, she encouraged two of her daughters to get into fistfights.
On the eve of his capital murder trial, pimp Marshall Greene pleaded guilty to first-degree murder Thursday allowing him to avoid a potential death sentence.
Sheri Weiss said she filed the civil case as part of her longstanding effort to hold chiropractor Stephen Shaw accountable for her husband’s 2005 death, which occurred after Shaw shoved the older man and caused him to fall.
A woman who bore a child from a fertilized egg donated by her female companion will get the chance to make her case for parental rights, the state Supreme Court ruled Thursday in a case unprecedented in Nevada.
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Antwone Washington was a coach and campus security officer before he was accused of having a sexual relationship with a student.
The defendant, accused of wielding a machete, was shot by a constable and appeared in court with his face bloody and bandaged.
Nathan Chasing Horse is accused of sexually assaulting multiple alleged victims. He appeared in “Dances With Wolves” as Smiles a Lot.
The Metropolitan Police Department provided more details about a pair of January police shootings.
