A woman who wrongfully spent three decades behind bars for a murder she didn’t commit has filed a lawsuit against the state of Nevada asking for a certificate of innocence and $3.5 million in damages.

Cathy Woods was wrongfully accused and convicted of the murder of college student Michelle Mitchell A Nevada woman who spent 35 years in prison for a murder she didn’t commit will receive $3 million ...

RENO — A woman who spent more than 35 years in prison before she was exonerated for a 1976 Reno murder has filed a wrongful conviction lawsuit against the state and could receive up to $3.5 million ...

Update 6:15 p.m. Aug. 12: The Reno City Council on Wednesday unanimously approved the $3 million settlement payment to Cathy Woods, 41 years after the city's police department arrested her for a ...

CARSON CITY — A state spending panel Tuesday approved a $2.85 million settlement with a woman who spent more than three decades in jail before DNA evidence cleared her of a 1976 Reno murder. The three ...

RENO, Nev. — New DNA evidence in the killing of a University of Nevada, Reno student in 1976 implicates a habitual criminal and exonerates a woman imprisoned for more than 30 years, the defense argued ...

RENO, Nev. — A Nevada woman who spent 35 years in prison for a murder she didn't commit before she was exonerated by DNA evidence on a crime-scene cigarette butt, will get $3 million in a partial ...

A Nevada judge considering a new trial for a woman who's served more than 30 years in prison for a murder she says she didn't commit has postponed his decision after her lawyers said they have ...