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Las Vegas police report uptick in gun thefts

The Las Vegas Valley has seen an uptick in gun thefts this year, many of which could have been prevented by proper storage, police said Wednesday.

 
Metro officer expected to recover after east valley shooting

A Las Vegas police officer thought a vehicle had hit his patrol car Sunday afternoon, but it was a man firing a shot shooting at him with a semiautomatic handgun.

 
Ambush that killed two Metro cops in 2014 lasted 4 seconds, testimony shows

Jerad and Amanda Miller were defiant until the very end. Cornered after slaying three people and expecting their own deaths, the couple kept up the police-hating rhetoric investigators would later find immortalized in a self-glorifying shrine.

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Inmate’s survivors sue police over fatal struggle in jail

A second civil rights lawsuit has been filed by survivors of an inmate who died after a 2013 struggle with officers at the Clark County Detention Center.

 
Metro officer shot near Rainbow and Alta; 2 people in custody

A Las Vegas police officer shot before daylight Friday came through surgery fine, Sheriff Joseph Lombardo said, but one man’s wound leaves a mark on the whole department.