It took more than two hours for police negotiators to coax a homicide suspect barricaded in his North Las Vegas apartment to surrender Friday night, an ordeal that unfolded as SWAT teams kept their automatic weapons trained on the residence.
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Under a new policy intended to foster greater transparency in officer-involved shootings, the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department on Friday gave more details behind a June 4 incident in which a 49-year-old man was shot at twice after police say he pointed a black cellphone at a responding officer.
A family court hearing master is no longer an employee of the Clark County District Court System, a court official confirmed Friday.
A former assistant property manager for the U.S. General Services Administration in Las Vegas pleaded guilty Friday to lying to federal agents and tampering with a witness in a criminal investigation.
A Las Vegas man was charged with murder in the death of a 16-month-old girl, according to a police arrest report.
A man accused of hoarding 58 live pets and just as many dead ones at his Sparks home is facing four counts of animal cruelty.
One person was arrested after an overnight blaze damaged the entrance of a Las Vegas-area Baptist church, fire officials said Friday.
A Clark County jury acquitted a 56-year-old man of murder charges for the stabbing death of another man in January.
Justin Hoey wasn’t going back to prison. He planned to die.
The leader of a counterfeit credit card ring was sentenced Thursday to 81 months in prison.
Shortly after he was elected, Las Vegas Constable John Bonaventura asked a female deputy to wear a miniskirt and garters to work, and to perform a sex act, according to the latest round of allegations to hit his office.
