According to police, the shooting occurred around 11 p.m. Saturday while a woman was being held hostage at knife-point inside an apartment near East Craig Road and North Nellis Boulevard near Nellis Air Force Base.
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The Metropolitan Police Department is warning the public of a phone scam that they say involves the use of LVMPD officials’ names.
Diaja Smith and Jacoby Robinson face murder and child abuse charges. They were arrested after their son’s body was found in a dumpster near downtown Las Vegas.
The officers involved in a shooting Saturday night in the northeast Las Vegas Valley have been identified by the Metropolitan Police Deparatment.
The Metropolitan Police Department is investigating a homicide Monday in the east Las Vegas Valley.
Three Canadians will be banned from federal lands for five years after pleading guilty to walking on a sensitive hot spring in Yellowstone National Park and other crimes at parks across the Western U.S., park officials said.
The lawyer for the family of slain child beauty queen JonBenet Ramsey denounced a CBS documentary theorizing she was killed by her brother, Burke, as a “false and unprofessional television attack” and threatened to sue the network for libel.
A former Oklahoma City police officer convicted of raping four women and sexually assaulting several others while he was on duty was sentenced on Thursday to 263 consecutive years in prison, the maximum allowable sentence.
A woman accused of killing four people and injuring dozens more at Oklahoma State University’s Oct. 24 homecoming parade had a blood alcohol content below the minimum level to be considered legally intoxicated, court papers showed.
The U.S. Justice Department has released cell phone video of a so-called “knockout game” attack that resulted in a federal hate crime conviction.
A Texas lawmaker who met with the family of a black woman found dead in her jail cell after her arrest following a routine traffic stop said on Tuesday she should never have been in police custody in the first place.
The suspect in the killing of a Washington businessman and three others found in a torched mansion last week has been taken into custody, police said late on Thursday.
Posters appeared around Columbus University Tuesday night accusing actress and author Lena Dunham and student Emma Sulkowicz of lying about being sexually assaulted.
The hunt for suspects continues in the death of a 19-year-old woman who was burned alive in Panola County.
Police were investigating whether three teenagers suspected of beating two homeless men to death with cinderblocks, bricks and a metal fence pole were responsible for dozens of other attacks on transients in recent months.
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According to police, the shooting occurred around 11 p.m. Saturday while a woman was being held hostage at knife-point inside an apartment near East Craig Road and North Nellis Boulevard near Nellis Air Force Base.
Diaja Smith and Jacoby Robinson are being held in custody without bail in connection with the death of a 2-year-old whose body was found in a dumpster last week.
A woman was being held hostage at knife-point by a man when two Metropolitan Police Department officers fired their weapons late Saturday night.
A bill co-sponsored by U.S. Rep. Susie Lee would put the weight of the federal government behind efforts to prosecute criminals taking part in organized retail theft.