Nevada

Southern Nevada has emerged as the state with the highest number of cases of a potentially lethal fungus that is resistant to common antibiotics, and a major risk for hospital and nursing home patients.

Five years after HIV tore through a rural Indiana town as a result of widespread drug use, a syringe and needle exchange program was set up in rural Nevada to prevent a similar event.

A Nevada jury put the state and a former mental hospital administrator on the hook Thursday for class-action damages that could range from about $9…