The judge found that the dual roles of Sens. Nicole Cannizzaro and Melanie Scheible, who work as prosecutors when not acting as legislators, did not amount to a constitutional violation of separation of powers.
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Dominique Bosa-Edwards, 38, spent more than three years taking law school classes at night while working as a marshal during the day.
Attorneys have linked a Nevada woman’s death to an outbreak of liver illness that health officials tied to a local bottled water company, according to a new lawsuit.
Prosecutors indicted a father and son on charges of beating a man to death at a Las Vegas bus stop while the father was free on house arrest after being charged with sexual assault of a child.
Police on Wednesday located the body of missing Las Vegas toddler Amari Nicholson, hours after the man charged in his death was ordered held without bail. That evening, community members gathered to honor Amari at a vigil.
One of six people accused of defacing federal buildings during a Black Lives Matter protest has pleaded guilty to a federal charge, prosecutors said Monday.
Prosecutors on Monday pushed back the date they want to execute Zane Floyd for killing four people inside a Las Vegas grocery store.
Nevada’s prison director testified Thursday that he would prefer to have up to four months to prepare for the execution of death row inmate Zane Floyd.
As prosecutors push to execute Zane Floyd, prison officials hope to keep secret their discussions about what drugs could be mixed in the lethal injection cocktail.
A Las Vegas woman has been convicted of mailing threatening letters to her mother’s former supervisor and to attorneys representing Caesars Entertainment Corp.
Nevada prison officials have yet to establish how they plan to kill condemned prisoner Zane Floyd.
When the pandemic struck, Casey Aiken lost his job as a strip club promoter and was forced to look for new work. In June, he landed a job at Real Water’s since-closed plant on Desert Inn Road.
Las Vegas Justice of the Peace Melanie Tobiasson has agreed to resign, rather than face ethics charges from a state disciplinary board.
“It wasn’t his nature that created the Pat McKenna that spent all that time in prison,” said brother Ken, a former Nevada lawyer. “It was the nurture part of his life.”
Prosecutors deny they have a conflict of interest in their efforts to execute Zane Floyd for killing four people inside a Las Vegas grocery store.