LAS VEGAS – A Las Vegas man was sentenced this week by U.S. District Judge Richard F. Boulware II to 10 years in prison followed by 15 years of supervised release for distributing counterfeit pills laced with fentanyl that resulted in the death of another person.
A southern Utah community was struggling for answers on Thursday after police found eight people from one family, including five children, shot to death in the small town of Enoch. Police sent officers to check on them on Wednesday and found the family dead from gunshot wounds. Officials did…
The Nevada Pardons Board, which includes outgoing Democratic Gov. Steve Sisolak, will discuss commuting all death sentences at its next meeting on Tuesday. The sentences would be changed to life without parole.
A former Idaho attorney general and lieutenant governor who has been inside the house where four University of Idaho students were killed on Nov. 13 says the suspect likely entered the house through a back door.
Twin Falls Prosecuting Attorney Grant Loebs said Thursday he was reviewing whether the charge of aggravated battery should be amended.
Idaho has issued a death warrant to a terminally ill man facing execution for his role in the 1985 slayings of two gold prospectors near McCall
CARSON CITY – Thousands of pounds of marijuana being grown at a remote rural Nevada site have been confiscated, and authorities say the crop was worth more than $7.8 million.
CARSON CITY – Two inmates at Ely State Prison are under investigation for sending mail containing a powdery substance to a Las Vegas courthouse, the Nevada Department of Corrections reported Thursday morning.
LAS VEGAS – The U.S. Marshals Service announced a $5,000 reward as it began assisting the Nevada Department of Corrections and law enforcement agencies in locating and arresting Nevada escapee Porfirio Duarte-Herrera.
LAS VEGAS – A man sentenced to life in prison for murder is missing from a medium-security prison, according to the Nevada Department of Corrections.
WEST JORDAN — A jury found a Taylorsville man guilty of manslaughter after a four-day trial, deciding that he killed his girlfriend by putting methamphetamine in her drink over five years ago.
A Winnemucca man pleaded guilty Wednesday to assaulting law enforcement officers at the Jan. 6 Capitol riot.
"We have devoted many resources to this investigation. What happened today does not represent downtown or our great city," said Salt Lake City Police Chief Mike Brown.
Danny Smith distributed large quantities of fentanyl in Magic Valley in 2020 and 2021, including three occasions where he sold a person fentanyl pills at a store parking lot in Twin Falls.
A 16-year-old Truckee girl remains missing nearly two weeks after she was last seen at a school party in the Tahoe National Forest, despite search efforts that have included at least 16 local, state and federal agencies.
A Nevada man was arrested after police said he committed two brazen home invasion robberies, then stole an Amazon delivery truck and crashed into multiple cars as he led authorities on a chase throughout a Southern California city. The pursuit began Monday around 5 p.m. when officers respond…
Technological changes will be centralized through a platform called Overwatch that includes universal surveillance coupled with high-tech wristbands for inmates to detect criminal activity and track prisoners’ whereabouts.
SALT LAKE CITY — A Tooele man accused of setting a dog on fire, killing the animal in an effort to intimidate his ex-girlfriend and her family, is going to prison.
A 38-year-old Arkansas man has admitted that about 100 pounds of dynamite and ignition material found with him at a hotel in suburban Las Vegas was stolen from a mining district in northern Nevada. Court records and his attorney said Friday that Evan Ray Atkinson entered a written guilty plea July 7 in U.S. District Court in Reno to theft of explosives from a federal permit-holder. He faces a year and a day in federal prison at sentencing Sept. 28. The plea deal avoided trial on multiple charges. Defense attorney Richard Schonfeld says his client accepted responsibility and wanted closure to the case. Nothing in the court record said what Atkinson allegedly planned to do with the explosives.
Asman is 5 feet, 6 inches tall, weighs 195 pounds with blonde hair and blue eyes. He is believed to be driving a white 2005 Chevrolet pickup with Utah license plate T287M.
While the incident appeared to be unintentional, Stockton police want to let the public know that negligence doesn't release someone of responsibility.
“The operation’s focus was to identify and arrest individuals targeting minor children over the internet for purposes of sexual abuse.” Rupert Police Department Sgt. Sam Kuoha said.
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LUCIN, Box Elder County — A squatter who was living near 19-year-old Dylan Rounds when he went missing from the remote community of Lucin in northwest Utah in May faces new criminal charges in federal court.
EAGLE MOUNTAIN, Utah — Two young boys playing with toy trucks and front-end loaders in a corral at the Cedar Valley Stables died instantly when a man with a history of drug use, who was on parole after being previously convicted of stealing a police car, was traveling up to 100 mph and “drif…
A jury found Robert Erickson, owner of a Helena Valley quarter-horse breeding operation, guilty of aggravated animal cruelty Wednesday in District Court.
ELKO – An Elko woman has been sentenced to up to 40 months in prison after pulling a knife on an off-duty police officer in a downtown café.
CARSON CITY -- The Nevada Department of Taxation is advising the public about a scam in which people are sent a notice called a “Distraint Warrant” and ordered to pay off a tax liability.
A teenager was shot near Harmon Park on Wednesday night, police said.
A former Montana Tech football player who admitted raping two women in Butte will do no prison time and could get the crime expunged from his record if he stays out of trouble and meets other requirements for six years.
A suspect in the kidnapping of a Fernley woman has been taken into custody by the Lyon County Sheriff’s Office and assisting agencies.
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