A second pharmaceutical company has joined the suit to stop Nevada from using its synthetic opiate, fentanyl, in the state’s execution of two-time murderer Scott Dozier.
Briana Erickson
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Briana Erickson covers homeless and veterans’ issues for the Review-Journal. A proud “Florida Woman” living in the desert, she centers her reporting around people living in the shadows.
Before joining the Review-Journal in 2017, the University of Florida graduate wrote for the North Central Florida NPR affiliate and the South Florida Sun Sentinel. She was named College Journalist of the Year by the Society of Professional Journalists.
International tourists got what they came for Thursday at Death Valley National Park as the official temperature soared to 127 degrees at 4:42 p.m., tying a record for the date set in 1993, according to the National Weather Service.
An excessive heat warning went into effect early Tuesday and will remain in place at least through Thursday as high temperatures are expected to reach 111 degrees and above, according to the National Weather Service.
Families of victims and survivors of the mass shooting on the Las Vegas Strip appeared for a press conference Monday morning in California.
In all three robberies, which took place Friday and Saturday, the suspect pointed a firearm at an employee and demanded money, according to a Metropolitan Police Department news release.
It was the first such congressional tour of the site since 2015, when Rep. John Shimkus, R-Ill., chairman of the House Energy and Commerce subcommittee on the environment, led a half dozen lawmakers underground to review the proposed nuclear waste repository.
A civil rights lawsuit filed this week alleges that a man’s constitutional rights were violated when he was shot and killed by a Las Vegas police officer last year.
Heavy rains temporarily closed part of U.S. Highway 95, delayed flights at McCarran International Airport and prompted the National Weather Service to issue three flood alerts for Southern Nevada.
Kimarie Miller and her husband, David, testified in September 2007 at the trial of Scott Dozier, the man convicting of murdering and dismembering their son, 22-year-old Jeremiah Miller
A jury sentenced Dozier to death in October 2007 for killing 22-year-old Jeremiah Miller. It was his second murder conviction.
It took a Las Vegas jury a little over an hour Friday to sentence Keith Barlow to death for the 2013 killing of his ex-girlfriend, Danielle Woods, and her new boyfriend, Donnie Cobb.
Las Vegas resident Mark Blackburn died mysteriously next to his car parked in the Arizona desert more than 20 years ago. Police retrieved his body, but left the Datsun.
Newly released body camera footage captured the moment on Oct. 1 when officer Brady Cook was shot on the Strip. It was his second night on the job.
A renewed agreement between the city of Henderson and the Las Vegas Paiute Tribe will provide alternative inmate housing for the tribe.
Nevada’s first primary election using a new statewide system included some hiccups but largely went smoothly.
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