Las Vegas police said an officer “used an appropriate amount of force” in August when he took a Los Angeles woman into custody outside a Strip nightclub.
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A woman claims a Las Vegas police officer choked her and smashed her face into a glass table top in August at a Strip nightclub.
Cassandra Cassidy, 24, of Las Vegas, was gunned down in the 1300 block of Westwind Avenue, near Jones Road and Charleston Boulevard Friday night by people in a white two-door car, Las Vegas police said.
A former Metro police officer was given four years probation Monday on a child pornography charge.
The Clark County District Attorney’s office Friday announced that a pair of officer-involved shooting deaths were justified, including the February 2014 killing of a man at Red Rock Canyon.
A 28-year-old Cashman Middle School teacher appeared in court on Wednesday, less than a week after being arrested on charges of kidnapping and luring a mentally ill child younger than 14 years old for a sexual act.
In an angry final message to Review-Journal, the man who shot himself at an M Resort buffet on Easter Sunday blamed his suicide on depression after he won free meals for life but was banned for harassing women who work there.
A 20-year-old man appeared in court Thursday to face charges in a hit-and-run car crash at a bus stop that left a woman and her 6-year-old granddaughter dead.
After only a few months in Las Vegas, Karen Furlough stole at least $230,000 from Delores Hale, and possibly upward of $145,000 more, in what prosecutor J.P. Raman called a swift and extreme case of elderly exploitation.