5 February 2012, 3:18 am
While our Collar of the Week column is traditionally about good police work in Northeast Pennsylvania, we couldn't pass on this one.It's not too often we find folks who grew up in the area doing police work seemingly ripped from a Hollywood screenplay and under the hot Nevada sun in America&... Read More »
4 February 2012, 9:50 am
On Feb. 5, the Washoe County Sheriff’s Office patrol division will have a DUI checkpoint in the Spanish Springs area of Sparks. This DUI checkpoint will be a multi-agency partnership with the Reno Police Department, Nevada Highway Patrol, Sparks Police Department, Washoe County School Police, Univ... Read More »
4 February 2012, 6:55 am
Before the nation turns its surely undivided attention to the Super Bowl on Sunday, it has the Nevada Republican caucuses to follow. On the eve of the state's contest, Yahoo News talked to Las Vegas Sun political reporter Anjeanette Damon to find out how this year's race compares to years... Read More »
3 February 2012, 6:52 pm
Nevada police are urging football fans to arrange a designated driver before cracking open beers at their Super Bowl parties.... Read More »
2 February 2012, 2:26 pm
Having already been awarded the maximum judgment allowed under state law, the family of a man killed in a crash with a Las Vegas police vehicle has filed a federal civil rights lawsuit seeking millions from the department. Attorney Marc Saggese, who represents... Read More »
2 February 2012, 9:53 am
The Nevada Police Department is reminding businesses and citizens to be proactive in safeguarding your property and possessions. Business owners/managers, check the status of your alarms to be sure that - Continue reading...... Read More »
1 February 2012, 10:01 pm
Nevada police announced Wednesday that two men believed to be members of a theft ring responsible for numerous stealing cases from unlocked vehicles and burglaries committed in and around the city of Nevada are facing charges.... Read More »
30 January 2012, 10:14 pm
Fall and spring are fund-raising times for many schools, so residents are often not surprised to find two teenagers at their door selling magazines. "We are in a contest," declares one of the youngsters, "and if we get enough bonus points we can earn a trip to Europe this summer."... Read More »
23 January 2012, 4:15 pm
A serial-murder defendant who was ordered Monday to stand trial for four killings in Northern California in the 1970s and '90s is under new scrutiny for unsolved slayings in San Francisco, police said. Cold-case...... Read More »
20 January 2012, 10:13 pm
Katherine Kerbs didn't really know what she was getting into when she agreed to research and write a history of the Nevada Police Department as a directed study course at Cottey College. But she agreed to take on the semester-long project in spite of having hardly any information to start with.... Read More »