RENO — A Reno man who pleaded no contest to torturing and mutilating dogs in a motel room was sentenced Thursday to 28 years in prison.
Jason Brown, 25, had earlier pleaded no contest to seven counts of willfully torturing animals, The Associated Press reported.
Brown was arrested in July 2014 when an employee at the motel he was staying at found body parts and remains of dogs in his room.
Rep. Dina Titus filed an amendment to the reconciliation bill that would remove Rep. Mark Amodei’s amendment to sell public land in Clark County.
Gusty winds closed multiple stages at the Electric Daisy Carnival at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway on Saturday night.
A proposal to give some terminally ill patients in Nevada access to life-ending medications failed to meet a key Nevada Legislature deadline on Friday.
The state paid over $9 million to bring internet access to Lovelock. The funds went missing, and the project was never finished.
A judge has struck down federal prosecutors’ plan to pursue the death penalty in a Reno case after they said they would not seek capital punishment, then reversed course last month.
The body of a female was found at the bottom of a cliff in the Beaver Dam area on May 9.
Robert E. Allen, 79, who was convicted in the 2003 murder of his wife at their Henderson home, died Sunday, according to the Nevada Department of Corrections.
The move comes after a public defender said the judge suggested her representation of a client was tied to a non-existent sexual relationship.
A motorcyclist died after a crash on Interstate 15 south of Las Vegas in early May.
The report from Three Square Food Bank said more than 377,000 people in Southern Nevada may not know where their next meal is coming from.
