Intelligence showed that militants connected with Islamic State were planning to behead a member of the public in Australia, Prime Minister Tony Abbott said on Thursday after hundreds of police raided homes in a sweeping counter-terrorism operation.
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One person was hospitalized after a shooting Wednesday afternoon in northeast valley, according to Las Vegas police.
A 15-year-old boy was arrested on attempted murder charges after he tried to kill the family of his former friend, police said.
A grand jury indicted a 19-year-old man on charges he caused an explosion that severely burned a girl and six of her Basic High School classmates at a bonfire in the desert south of Henderson, Clark County prosecutors said Wednesday.
Suspended Family Court Judge Steven Jones pleaded guilty in federal court Wednesday to one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud in a $2.6 million investment scheme. Jones agreed to surrender his law license to the State Bar of Nevada and resign from the bench.
In April, a car collided with one of rancher Cliven Bundy’s cows on Interstate 15 near his Bunkerville ranch, killing the animal and sending the vehicle careening down an embankment. A Las Vegas woman injured in the crash is suing Bundy.
A small Henderson casino has been robbed twice this summer, and investigators there note a man involved in each holdup was wearing a fedora. And it could have been the same guy, Henderson police said.
A juvenile faces a murder charge as an adult in a North Las Vegas shooting that happened two weeks ago, police say.
A Florida man was indicted Wednesday on sexual assault charges in connection with attacking another man in a Strip bathroom.
PHOENIX — A cold case homicide has been solved after a man, apparently racked with guilt, drove across the country to confess killing an Arizona woman in Bullhead City with a flashlight more than 15 years ago.
Nevada trucking company could be forced to pay more than $5.5 million if a judge formalizes a jury verdict that found one of its drivers caused a 2011 crash with an Amtrak train that killed six people and injured dozens.
The man who was shot and killed at a strip mall near UNLV on Monday morning has been identified.
A former Elko County jail inmate is seeking more than $50,000 in damages in a federal lawsuit accusing jail guards of idly standing by while three other inmates nearly beat him to death.
The woman found dead in her North Las Vegas apartment on Saturday night was shot and stabbed multiple times, according to the Clark County coroner’s office.
Las Vegas police are looking for someone who robbed an employee inside Palace Station on Sunday night.