Las Vegas police officers are sent out on the street with scattershot training and cumbersome policies, and the shootings they get into are often preceded by poor radio communication and other tactical errors, according to a wide-ranging study by the U.S. Department of Justice.
State officials are warning Nevadans about insurance telemarketers pretending to be DMV employees.
The U.S. Justice Department’s approach in reforming the Las Vegas police is being praised as a national model for better law enforcement by one of the nation’s top police accountability experts.
Mario Taylor was just a kid when he killed Christopher Beaver 16 years ago. Now Taylor works as a welder and fiberglass technician for Shelby Performance Parts. He is a client of HOPE for Prisoners Inc.
The Hernandez sisters climbed the tree outside their Las Vegas apartment every day. It made a perfect jungle gym for twins Diana and Adriana, 7, and Estela, 8. Today the tree is gone. So is Diana.