California police are investigating Storey County Sheriff Gerald Antinoro for his possible involvement in the 2015 rape of a woman in a Lodi hotel. Nevada Attorney General Adam Laxalt informed California police and the FBI of the accusation centering around a deposition made as part of an ongoing lawsuit against Antinoro by a former deputy, according to emails obtained in a public records request by The Nevada Independent.

Ruby Flores González was scheduled to give birth on Saturday, but the baby’s father was expected to miss the big moment — Jorge Franco is in the Henderson Detention Center and is at risk of being deported for unpaid traffic tickets.

Only a month into the new academic year, police have investigated seven gun-related incidents at Clark County School District campuses — prompting a deeper look into the burgeoning problem.

A former deputy to an embattled rural Nevada sheriff has filed a lawsuit in federal court against her former boss, accusing him of discrimination and violating equal employment laws. Melanie Keener, a former deputy to Storey County Sheriff Gerald Antinoro, filed the civil lawsuit in federal court on Wednesday against the county and Antinoro after receiving a “right to sue” letter from the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission in June.

Leslie Turner’s son was four months old when she was jailed for a week and a half over unpaid traffic tickets and a broken taillight. She’d been breastfeeding, and the time apart caused her breast milk to go dry. She’s now an activist for the Mass Liberation Project at the Progressive Leadership Alliance of Nevada, where she — among other things — teaches people how to fix their own taillights so they don’t end up in her position.

The Republican Attorneys General Association has filed a lawsuit against Las Vegas police over thwarted attempts to obtain body camera footage that involves Democratic candidate for attorney general, Aaron Ford. The lawsuit, which was filed against the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department on Thursday, alleges that Metro repeatedly—and improperly—refused to turn over body camera footage of Ford, the Democratic state Senate majority leader, related to an incident with a Metro officer and a minor child on Nov. 13, 2017.

Nevada officials have filed an emergency request with the state Supreme Court seeking to block a lower court’s decision to release the identity of the attending physician scheduled to oversee the delayed execution of Scott Raymond Dozier. In an emergency motion filed Wednesday, the attorney general’s office, representing the Nevada Department of Corrections, is seeking to block a Tuesday decision by District Court Judge Elizabeth Gonzalez.

Gubernatorial candidate Adam Laxalt, lieutenant governor candidate Michael Roberson and attorney general candidate Wes Duncan all threw their support behind the ballot measure during a forum hosted by the Southern Hills Republican Women’s Club in Henderson on Tuesday.

Despite often-touted improving jobs numbers and a sinking unemployment rate, many Nevada residents are still suffering from the financial crash of 2008. Case in point: a survey conducted last year by a Nevada Supreme Court commission found that households with income less than 125 percent of the federal poverty level have a total of about 147,000 legal “needs” every year.

The prisoners also allege that there’s an inappropriate use of “segregation” (inmates separated from the general population), that staff is retaliating against inmates for submitting complaints, and that they’re being restricted from or denied access to the commissary, religious services, educational programming, medical care and visitation.

At the roundtable, Ryan also put in a plug for Hardy, who’s in a tough race against Democrat Steven Horsford in Nevada’s 4th Congressional District.

Get ready to hear more about Education Savings Accounts, marijuana, conjugal visits and antler dealers when lawmakers head back to Carson City early next year. Those are just a few of the topics surfacing in proposed legislation ahead of the upcoming lawmaking session.

Hand-in-hand with the Department of Justice, Las Vegas police worked in 2012 to review their policies and implement 75 recommendations for preventing the use of force. While other cities have followed suit, and a national researcher who reviewed the process praised it, it hasn’t been a panacea for officer-involved shootings. This month alone, Metro experienced five officer-involved shootings in eight days.

The Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department participated in a "collaborative reform" process with the Department of Justice in 2012 after experiencing a high number of officer-involved shootings. Here is a statistical portrait of what has changed since.

The Nevada Board of Examiners voted unanimously on Tuesday to approve $158,000 so the Nevada Department of Corrections could buy DMV equipment valued at several million dollars. The equipment will help prisons create “redundancy” so they’re not crippled if there’s a network outage.

Clearer answers on why there’s an uptick in the prison population could be on the way now that the state has partnered with the Crime and Justice Institute. The organization’s staff will be spending about a year making large-scale data requests from courts, prisons and other agencies, interviewing people who work in the criminal justice system and helping Nevada leaders develop policy recommendations that could become law through the 2019 legislative session.

The uncertainty about the fiscal effects of Marsy’s Law comes as the measure has faced scrutiny in other jurisdictions where it’s passed. In South Dakota, defense lawyers complained that the victim notification requirements were forcing courts to push back hearing dates and keeping defendants behind bars longer. In Montana, the entire measure was voided by the Montana Supreme Court after a statewide vote when justices said the “bill of rights” contained too many changes and voters should rule on them separately.

These types of second and third chances are standard at the parole division, which has shifted direction in recent years to focus more on rehabilitating the people it supervises instead of just checking compliance and sending them back to jail for violations. The Legislature supported those changes with investments last year in new types of programming.