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Drug bill hits funding wall in Senate

The U.S. Senate last week took up a bill to respond to what Democrats and Republicans are calling an epidemic of opioid and heroin overdoses in the country but once again ran into a major difference over funding.

Nevada Rep. Cresent Hardy faces Trump conundrum

As Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump continues to build momentum, he casts a shadow across the down-ballot races across the U.S., including congressional races in Nevada.

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Ex-Bullhead City police sergeant sentenced in rape of student

A former Bullhead City police sergeant convicted of raping a 21-year-old woman who was his criminal justice student at a local community college has been sentenced to the Arizona Department of Corrections.

Reno-area woman arrested for stabbing dog to death

Washoe County sheriff’s detectives have arrested a Reno-area woman suspected of stabbing and bludgeoning her dog to death to avoid having to pay veterinary fees to euthanize the animal.

Woman gets life in prison without parole in death of husband, a Nellis airman

Calling her crime “incredibly unfathomable,” a judge on Thursday sentenced Michelle Paet to life in prison without the possibility of parole for orchestrating a plot that left her husband, Nathan Paet, dying in his blood-soaked Air Force fatigues in front of their four children.

Nevada’s delegates launch bill to fast-track high-speed rail project

Members of Nevada’s congressional delegation introduced legislation Thursday that they hope will fast-track the XpressWest project to provide high-speed passenger rail service between Las Vegas and Southern California with stops in Victorville and Palmdale.

 
14 more Bundy Bunkerville suspects indicted

Fourteen more people have been indicted by a federal grand jury in Las Vegas in connection with the April 2014 armed standoff with law enforcement near the Bunkerville ranch of Cliven Bundy.

Judge cuts bond amount sought in ESA case

A state judge Thursday reduced by more than two-thirds the amount of a bond sought by the state treasurer and attorney general’s office from a group of parents challenging Nevada’s education savings account.

New hearing ordered in 1999 Las Vegas bar shootout conviction

A federal appeals court on Thursday reversed a district judge and granted a man involved in a 1999 robbery and shootout with Las Vegas police a new hearing on a juror misconduct claim.

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