Updated: 10:22 PM A 45-year-old Reno woman pleaded guilty to a charge of hiring an undercover detective to cut off her husband's genitals.

Updated: 10:21 PM Petitions to repeal a record $833 million Nevada tax increase and bar government workers from serving in the Legislature have failed to qualify for the November ballot, Secretary of State Dean Heller said Tuesday.

Updated: 10:00 PM Nevada coach Chris Ault admitted to a bit of apprehension Monday when a local broadcaster who also works as a sheriff's deputy showed up at the annual football media day in his deputy's uniform.

Updated: 9:57 PM A year after the Sept. 11 attacks, the Justice Department obtained video surveillance tapes suggesting terrorists were targeting Las Vegas casinos but authorities never alerted the public.

Updated: 9:54 PM Oklahoma City bombing conspirator Terry Nichols, addressing a court for the first time, proclaimed his faith in God and asked victims of the blast for forgiveness Monday as a judge sentenced him to 161 consecutive life sentences.

Updated: 9:51 PM A lawyer trying to stop the 9 p.m. Thursday execution of convicted Nevada murderer Terry Jess Dennis petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday following failed efforts to win a stay from the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.

Updated: 9:21 PM The Nevada attorney general's office has filed a motion asking the U.S. District Court in Las Vegas to dismiss a lawsuit that seeks to get a marijuana initiative petition on the November ballot.

Updated: 9:32 PM One of the Reno area's largest special events has ended a week-long run after drawing another record crowd.

Updated: 9:28 PM Protected by about 100 guards, Iraq's interim Prime Minister Ayad Allawi visited the war-shattered city of Najaf on Sunday, calling on Shiite militants to lay down their weapons after days of fierce clashes with U.S. forces.

Updated: 9:25 PM An investigation continued Sunday into the suspicious death of a 44-year-old man found face down in a water-filled drainage ditch in Carson City.

Updated: 9:23 PM Ten days after confirming the first human case of the West Nile virus in Nevada, Clark County officials have announced two other probable human cases.

Updated: 8:46 PM A fire destroyed a mobile home north of Reno and seriously injured two children, authorities said.

Updated: 8:43 PM The heightened state of alert in New York, Newark, N.J. and Washington is "a grim reminder" of terrorist threats that still face the United States, President Bush said Saturday.

Updated: 8:41 PM As President Bush and John Kerry prepare to visit Nevada again, the Sierra Club is stepping up its political involvement in the battleground state.

Updated: 8:35 PM Old friends and family say Terry Jess Dennis, facing execution for strangling a woman in Reno, was a nice boy who sang in the school choir but got hooked on drugs and alcohol.

Updated: 10:39 PM A committee that oversees the health insurance plan for Nevada's state employees wants to restore some of the benefits that were cut when the system was in financial trouble.

Updated: 10:36 PM The U.S. Forest Service suspended wood cutting and gathering in Nevada's Carson Ranger District on Friday because of extreme fire danger.

Updated: 1:27 PM Another football player has been cut from the University of Reno, Reno team following his arrest on felony robbery charges.

Updated: 1:26 PM America's payrolls grew by an anemic 32,000 new jobs in July, suggesting the economy is stuck in summer lethargy three months before voters elect a president.

Updated: 1:22 PM When it comes to gasoline, Wayne Mancebo's bright blue 1972 Chevrolet Chevelle SuperSport has expensive taste.

Updated: 10:14 AM It's not the University of Nevada, nor is it simply Nevada. It's the University of Nevada, Reno.

Updated: 10:35 PM Magma moving deep below Lake Tahoe apparently triggered an unprecedented swarm of 1,600 tiny earthquakes during a seven-month period but they stopped in February and there's no cause for alarm, experts said Thursday.

Updated: 10:32 PM The state Supreme Court agreed Thursday to speed up its review of an appeal by Nevada's secretary of state of a lower court order that qualified two more proposals for the November ballot.

Updated: 10:30 PM Militant Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr's militia battled U.S. and Iraqi troops Thursday in the holy city of Najaf, sparking clashes in other Shiite areas that killed at least 20 Iraqis and a U.S. soldier.

Updated: 10:24 PM Nevada won't budge from plans to sue the Energy Department if the agency signals plans to ship radioactive waste to the state from a former uranium processing plant in Ohio.