A U.S. district judge has ordered a new delay in federal executions, hours before the first lethal injection was scheduled to be carried out at a federal prison in Indiana.

A local woman will spend the next year in jail after being found guilty of helping hide her fugitive brother.

A district judge has put Nevada's sweeping school choice program on hold just weeks before money was expected to flow to parents for private school tuition.

The Washoe County District Attorney says a Reno man has been sentenced after pleading guilty to lewdness with a child under 14.

The Department of Justice says a Reno man has been sentenced for drug possession.

A Washoe County district judge plans to begin a murder trial Monday for a 74-year-old Sparks man who claims he was acting in self-defense when he fatally shot a trespasser in a vacant duplex.

A second judicial district court judge has sentenced a habitual criminal to two 20-year prison sentences on gun-related charges.

Nevada Supreme Court Justice James Hardesty will assume an expanded role beginning Monday. He will take over as chief justice, a position he also held in 2009.

A man accused of killing six members of his ex-wife's family, including four children, collapsed in court Friday as a prosecutor recited the charges against him.