Bail has been set at $2 million for a 73-year-old former school teacher accused of murder in the shooting of two unarmed trespassers in Sparks that is bringing attention to Nevada’s “stand your ground” law.
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U.S. Rep. Joe Heck of Nevada is preparing a bill to cut red tape that hinders doctors at Nellis Air Force Base from treating veterans needing specialized care not available from the VA hospital in North Las Vegas.
A public land advocacy group sued the Bureau of Land Management on Thursday to make public documents on the agency’s handling of the armed standoff with Soouthern Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy.
Clark County election officials scrambled late Tuesday night to retrieve the electronic ballots of 127 voters that were left behind when polls closed at the Las Vegas Academy.
U.S. House lawmakers this week again launched an energy spending bill containing $205 million for the Nevada program that President Barack Obama ended four years ago.
After 9/11 and anthrax attacks, Las Vegas was the only major metropolitan area in the country without a public health laboratory within 100 miles. Officials completed the Southern Nevada lab in 2004, and finally showed reporters around Wednesday.
All of Republican Gov. Brian Sandoval’s endorsed candidates won their primary elections Tuesday over an array of tea party contenders, outsiders and uber-conservatives challenging the establishment.
Tuesday’s primary election had the second-lowest voter turnout in Clark County history, 15.79 percent.
Iqbal Singh-Sidhu, a 34-year-old Reno man, was sentenced to nine years in prison on Monday after being convicted of distributing synthetic drugs out of his convenience store.
In what appeared to be a protest vote over the lack of a strong challenger to GOP Gov. Brian Sandoval, more Democrats opted for “None Of These Candidates” over the eight actual individuals running for the party nomination.
The outcome of the three critical seats which decide which party controls the Nevada Senate won’t be decided until November, but early primary results Tuesday night showed that the Republican efforts to handpick primary candidates in two swing seats succeeded.
Meager voter turnout totals for the primary election might have broken Clark County’s 2008 all-time low turnout record of 14.76 percent, but it was too soon to tell late Tuesday night because of an incomplete report from one polling site.
State Sen. Mark Hutchison won a hard-fought GOP primary against Sue Lowden on Tuesday to advance as the Republican candidate for lieutenant governor in November.
Republican Assemblyman Cresent Hardy won Tuesday’s hottest congressional primary, beating his tea party opponent Niger Innis by about 10 percentage points.
All three incumbent Clark County commissioners enjoyed wide leads over their opponents in the Democratic primary Tuesday, easily advancing to the general election.