Crime

America locked up almost a quarter-million children in 2019, according to a new report called “Too Many Closed Doors” from the Sentencing Project.

Gov. Steve Sisolak this week said he has asked prosecutors not to pursue charges against the men who accosted him and his family at a Las Vegas restaurant in late February.

A Winnemucca man was arrested Wednesday, Dec. 1 in Reno on several federal charges related to the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol in Washington D.C. 

Officials from Nevada’s Department of Safety this week said they’d helped to shut down two illegal marijuana grow sites with nearly 28,000 plants worth an estimated $2.8 million.

A rural northern Nevada school and its Future Farmers of America students suffered the violent theft of livestock that killed turkeys and thousands of bees on school property.

An employee of the Ely State Prison was arrested this week after a multi-agency investigation found her to be smuggling methamphetamine into the prison for an inmate.

Timothy Moore, 19, of Douglas County, was sentenced to 90 days in jail for driving into a group of Black Lives Matter protesters in 2020.

Robert Coache has applied to receive an official exoneration by the State of Nevada after serving time in prison for crimes the Nevada Supreme Court later dismissed for lack of evidence.

Authorities on Monday arrested a suspected serial arsonist and then found more than $50,000 in firefighting equipment on his property.

Post-conviction claims of innocence in Nevada can now be handled in-state with the formation of the Innocence Center of Nevada.