North Las Vegas police shot and killed a man who reportedly raised a firearm towards several officers on Saturday night, according to authorities.
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A male was injured in an apparent shooting in Henderson on Friday night.
Operation Summer Shield 2024, a multi-jurisdictional sex offender verification operation, took place June 3-7, according to the Metropolitan Police Department.
Las Vegas police say the suspects admit they were at the scene of the crime in the southeast valley, but they deny killing a man and a woman found dead there.
Bump stocks, which allow semi-automatic weapons to fire like machine guns, were used in mass shootings like the one that killed 60 people in Las Vegas.
Former Nevada Assemblyman Wendell Williams, who sought to ban the use of chokeholds by police more than 25 years ago, is calling for a public reexamination of the Metropolitan Police Department’s neck restraint policy after a man died while in custody last week.
The officer was chasing after a person about 6:20 p.m. on the 1100 block of East Evans Avenue when he was bitten, Metropolitan Police Department Lt. C.J. Jenkins said.
One person was injured and at least 10 people were displaced Wednesday after an apartment building fire near Stewart Avenue and 13th Street in downtown Las Vegas.
Las Vegas police took a man into custody after he forced his wife and son into a car at gunpoint Wednesday afternoon.
A man is wanted after attempting to steal a car but fled because he appeared to not be able to drive a manual transmission, police said.
A North Las Vegas man was sentenced Wednesday to life in prison without the possibility of parole for his role in a February 2012 murder.
A judge set bail at $2.5 million on Wednesday for Ross Strauss, 64, who faces a murder charge in the death of his special-needs son.
People who work in Nevada’s public schools are supposed to have clean records. They’re fingerprinted and screened at the local, state and national levels for criminal histories — but the process is far from foolproof.
A woman in her 20s was hospitalized, but expected to survive after being shot by an ex-boyfriend Tuesday night.
A man shot in the head in central Las Vegas earlier this month has died, Las Vegas police said.
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A fatal shooting at a Walmart parking lot is being investigated as a possible case of self-defense, according to the Henderson Police Department.
A suspect accused in a hit-and-run crash that killed a pedestrian told investigators that she had struck construction equipment, according to her arrest report.
The bodies were discovered June 5 in the 4900 block of South Droubay Drive, near Tropicana Avenue.
Henderson police and fire crews responded to reports of a shooting at about 1:30 p.m. in the 500 block of Marks Street.