Public defenders are pleading for leniency for a 78-year-old, lifelong criminal who admitted robbing a Reno bank with a steak knife so he could return to prison instead of spending his last years homeless, cold and sick.
Authorities believe the body of a Hawaii man who went missing last year in Lake Tahoe while paddle boarding with football teammates from the University of Nevada at Reno has been found.
The Clark County coroner’s office on Tuesday released the identity of the man who died in a shooting in the Aliante master-planned community in North Las Vegas.
Take a look at the faces that have made headlines in Las Vegas in the last 90 days.
The family of a 12-year-old New Jersey girl who killed herself says it will sue her school district for not stepping in to address the problem of cyberbullying.
A California man pleaded guilty Tuesday to killing his 5-year-old son after a family trip to Disneyland, setting off a search for the boy that lasted more than two months before his body was found near a lake.
As the first day of school on Aug. 14 approaches, Clark County School District educators are getting ready to open six new schools across the valley, including Mathis Elementary School near Arville Street and Windmill Lane.
Raiders rookie cornerback Gareon Conley addressed the public Tuesday for the first time since a grand jury declined to indict him for rape following a months-long investigation.
An Ohio man is accused of stashing the remains of what police believe is his missing former girlfriend in a freezer that he bought with his new, live-in girlfriend, according to a criminal complaint filed in court Tuesday.
Sure, the Official Star Trek Convention offers fans of “Star Trek” in all its iterations panel discussions and presentations and autograph signings and meet-and-greets with the people who’ve spent the past half-century bringing the future’s favorite starship crews to life.
Las Vegas police say the man who allegedly struck and killed a pedestrian last week had drunk a beer and smoked marijuana prior to the crash.
The union representing a white police officer who fatally shot an unarmed black motorist during a traffic stop is seeking his reinstatement with University of Cincinnati police.
The Mirage casino-resort in Las Vegas has announced the birth of a bottlenose dolphin calf.
North Korea after decades of effort has a missile potentially capable of reaching the continental United States, but analysts say Pyongyang has yet to show the ICBM can inflict serious damage once it gets there.
The Las Vegas Valley can expect triple-digit temperatures and slight chances of thunderstorms this week, according to theNational Weather Service.
The political defiance that made Joe Arpaio popular and seemingly untouchable as metro Phoenix’s sheriff of 24 years ultimately led to his downfall as he was convicted of a crime for ignoring a U.S. court order to stop traffic patrols that targeted immigrants.
London-based IGT reported a second-quarter loss and a decline in revenue, but still beat Wall Street estimates, company officials said Tuesday.
Police said the robberies at three convenience stores and a taco shop — all within about an hour — appear related, Metropolitan Police Department said. In each robbery, at least two people walked in and either demanded money or took from the register.
Two of Venezuela’s leading opposition figures were taken from their homes in the middle of the night by state security agents on Tuesday, in President Nicolas Maduro’s first moves against his enemies since a widely denounced vote giving his government nearly unlimited powers.
A teenager was pulled from a pool Monday night in the central valley.
A man arrested in a southwest barricade situation, faces a battery with a deadly weapon charge.
Two men walked into a business about 2:30 a.m. Sunday on the 400 block of South Valley View Boulevard, near Alta Drive, and demanded money, Metropolitan Police Department said in a release. They took the money and left toward Alta.
Plutonium capable of being used in a nuclear weapon, conventional explosives, and highly toxic chemicals have been improperly packaged or shipped by nuclear weapons contractors at least 25 times in the past five years, according to government documents.
Coin experts say they have found the first silver piece minted by the United States — one likely held by the most en vogue of Founding Fathers, Alexander Hamilton.
