The Nevada Highway Patrol exceeded its legal authority when it seized nearly $90,000 in cash from Stephen Lara in 2023 and then handed the case to the DEA.
Most of these weren't close calls at all.
Blame bad laws, not fraud, for delays in vote counting in some swing states.
Drew Johnson wants to help define the post-Trump GOP.
There are any number of reasons to support or oppose a switch to ranked choice voting, but most of the opposition comes from the majority parties.
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For sex workers and their clients, Super Bowl season can mean a higher chance of getting nabbed by cops.
But it didn't matter, as Nevada lawmakers approved a $600 million handout to the team.
It'll be another five years before it's operational.
Carbon-free power isn’t free of hard choices.
Republican Joe Lombardo ousts incumbent Steve Sisolak over pandemic closures.
People with money on the line try harder than pundits to be right, and they adjust quickly when they've made a mistake.
A minimum wage increase passed in Nebraska and appears to have done the same in Nevada. In D.C., tipped workers will get a possibly unwelcome increase as well.
Abolishing party-specific primary elections makes a lot of sense, and might help steer American democracy back towards the center.
It would be far easier to prosecute sex trafficking if voluntary sex work were legal.
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The officers admit there's nothing illegal about carrying large amounts of cash, then take almost $90,000 from him anyway.
Carrying this archaeologists' accessory in the city's downtown without government permission is now a misdemeanor.
So many people are leaving the state that it will soon lose a congressional seat.
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The former New York Times SCOTUS reporter does not seem to understand the arguments she is criticizing.
The Bureau of Land Management threatens to impose new restrictions on the famous desert festival.
But the Nevada State Athletic Commission is considering restricting speech after taunts spark a brawl
He's not the first dead person to win an election.
Hof had a huge impact on legal sex work in Nevada and his death has spurred a heady mix of reactions.
The feds insist it's just a coincidence that an opioid task force targeted the one road to Burning Man as the event ramped up.
Love Ranch, a brothel owned by Nevada Assembly candidate Dennis Hof, loses their brothel license.
Convicted murderer Scott Dozier has already had his execution postponed twice. He says the state should "just get it done."
Citing a post-9/11 terror law, MGM Resorts International argues that it isn't liable for the deadliest mass shooting in modern American history.
"Of course the voices of actual sex workers are nowhere to be found," says brothel worker and PhD student Christina Parreira.
Judge cites "flagrant prosecutorial misconduct" on the government's part.
Alaska has the lowest taxes on recreational marijuana.
John Stossel confronts a prostitute, a pimp and an anti-prostitution crusader.
Rural Nevada counties use overworked contract attorneys as public defenders, leaving poor defendants at a huge disadvantage, the ACLU says.
The governor, who worries that pot-friendly businesses could provoke a federal crackdown, disagrees.
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