Justices of the peace have authority to suppress illegally obtained evidence during preliminary hearings, the Nevada Supreme Court said Thursday.
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The last holdout during the occupation of a wildlife refuge in Oregon continues to try to get out of jail before trial.
Leo Drozdoff, director of the Nevada Department of Conservation and Natural Resources, will retire in September after a long stint with the state agency, Gov. Brian Sandoval announced Thursday.
Authorities haven’t said why Glenn Jones killed himself during a bomb attack in the small Nevada town of Panaca on July 13, but the increasingly isolated 59-year-old seemed to have no shortage of reasons to be down on life.
Sue Ellen Hogan Hogan said she was shocked when she learned that her ex-husband Glenn Jones had set off two bombs last week in the small Nevada town of Panaca before fatally shooting himself.
Nevada’s prison boss assured the U.S. Justice Department on Wednesday that the state is taking immediate steps to end discriminatory housing and work assignments of inmates who have HIV or other disabilities.
Gov. Brian Sandoval led a memorial service Tuesday that honored two federal firefighters from Winnemucca who were killed when their fire truck crashed on July 10.
The National Speleological Society is holding its annual convention in Nevada for the first time, drawing almost 1,000 cave enthusiasts to Ely.
Clark County officials expanded their new program that allows people who commit certain minor offenses to go the civil route and receive a fine rather than being booked in the detention center.
PORTLAND, Ore. — A military veteran accused of taking leadership roles in two armed standoffs involving federal authorities pleaded guilty Tuesday in Oregon to a conspiracy charge and is expected to do the same involving charges in Nevada, prosecutors said.
The FBI has taken the lead in the investigation into last week’s deadly bombing in the Lincoln County town of Panaca.
The upcoming trial for Ammon Bundy and others charged in the occupation of an Oregon bird sanctuary will remain in Portland.
The Clark County coroner has determined that the man who set off several homemade explosives in front of a Lincoln County home on Wednesday died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head.
In 2005, Albert Okura paid $425,000 cash for Amboy, California — a clutch of orphaned buildings in the middle of the Mojave Desert, a long-forgotten, pit stop somewhere out there between Las Vegas and Los Angeles. The soul of the town is Roy’s Motel and Cafe.
It’s been a vision of UNLV leaders for years: A widely supported medical school educating the region’s future doctors and bearing the university’s name.