Steven Lawayne Nelson, 37, was convicted for the 2011 killing of Rev. Clint Dobson and put to death on Wednesday.

Death Row inmate Steven Lawayne Nelson was convicted of murder after suffocating a pastor in his own church during a robbery, ...

Steven Lawayne Nelson, 37, was killed via lethal injection on Wednesday evening - the second execution in the country this ...

Sentenced to death for killing two children in 1963, Leon Tice's sentence was commuted a month before Iowa abolished capital punishment in 1965.

Officer Jason Roscow, 46, was responding to reports of a person with a handgun near the intersection of Lone Mountain Road and Camino Al Norte, 11 miles north of the Las Vegas Strip.

At least 526 deaths in the county can be attributed to last year’s record summer, according to the coroner’s office.

He was the kind of defiant, well-schooled, experienced attorney that Nevada needed at that time,” a historian said.

Dairy cattle in Nevada have been infected with a new type of bird flu that’s different from the version that has spread in U.S. herds since last year, Agriculture Department officials said ...