When Las Vegas resident Santiago Cruz was pulled over in his car for speeding on Interstate 80 in Washoe County, a Nevada Highway Patrol officer searched the car for marijuana, but instead found $102,836 in cash.
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CARSON CITY — Yohan Lowie had a vision when he set out to design a new courthouse in Las Vegas to house the southern offices of the Nevada Supreme Court and Nevada Court of Appeals.
Elko and Eureka counties and two mining companies have filed the first lawsuit in Nevada challenging new federal land management plans intended to protect sage grouse, arguing that the rules are overbroad and were imposed in violation of existing law.
An Arizona woman whose daughter was killed almost 13 months ago has been sentenced to prison for her drug-dealing involvement following the homicide.
A 67-year-old inmate at the Northern Nevada Correctional Center in Carson City died Thursday, the Nevada Department of Corrections said.
A federal judge Tuesday ordered the government to pay $146,938 in legal fees to the driver of a motor home who fought the seizure of cash from the home on a Nevada highway.
Four inmates suffered nonfatal injures when they and six other inmates fought during dinner at High Desert State Prison near Indian Springs on Friday night, prompting guards to skip bird shot rounds at them.
A Pahrump man has been charged with murder after police said he admitted killing his stepmother and hiding her body.
A divided Nevada Supreme Court on Thursday upheld the murder conviction and death sentence of Timothy “Stone” Burnside in the 2006 fatal shooting of a former professional basketball player as he waited at the drive-thru of a Jack in the Box in Henderson.
A shooting that left one inmate dead at a Southern Nevada prison last fall involved two handcuffed inmates and at least one prison guard, a lawyer for a surviving inmate said Wednesday.
Charges have been dropped against a Pahrump man who was wanted by the Nye County sheriff’s office.
A fugitive the FBI says is behind as many as 10 Nevada bank robberies has been arrested in Mississippi.
The man who was fatally stabbed at a McDonald’s in Primm on Sunday morning has been identified.
A Washoe County judge on Tuesday approved a preliminary injunction to prohibit the ride-sharing company Uber from operating in Nevada, including Las Vegas.
A plea agreement is resolving the case against a Las Vegas man accused of foolishly driving a tour bus through raging floodwater in northwest Arizona in 2013.
