Carson City Sheriff Ken Furlong confirmed Cortney Ronald Staley was the father of the infant he was threatening during a five-hour standoff.
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The man died after a five-hour standoff with deputies, who sent in SWAT officers after he fired at least five shots and authorities became concerned the infant was in imminent danger.
Ryan Dashiell, speaking to Mesquite police after a plane crash last week, admitted that he “took a pull on a jug of vodka,” according to the commercial jet pilot’s arrest report.
Ryan Dashiell of Spokane, Washington, was treated at a hospital before being arrested on suspicion of operating an aircraft while under the influence of alcohol.
An unidentified inmate in a Pahrump private detention center died Friday after an “incident” in a secured cell, prompting a lockdown in part of the facility.
On the eve of Independence Day, a Las Vegas judge ordered 200,000 pounds of fireworks returned to the owner, who must haul the explosives out of Clark County.
Jerry Jay, a New Mexico man, was arrested in Nevada days after his 59-year-old girlfriend’s disappearance. She has not been found, and police want answers.
A judge in Reno has denied a motion to dismiss two murder charges against a Salvadoran immigrant accused of killing four people in Nevada in January.
A lawsuit in New Jersey accuses New Frontier Armory of illegally selling and shipping high-capacity magazines online to undercover state investigators.
After the ambush that killed two Las Vegas officers, Nevada’s attorney general considers the movement that the shooters supported the state’s “largest terroristic threat.”
A father who mistook his son for an intruder shot and wounded him in his Pahrump home on Thursday, according to the Nye County sheriff’s office.