A motorist accused of killing a pedestrian in central Las Vegas fled the scene and intentionally charred and ditched his car in a deserted area, according to police.
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Imprisoned for a fatal Las Vegas fatal DUI, former NFL player Henry Ruggs has been transferred to Northern Nevada, where he’s in a prison work program that placed him at the Governor’s Mansion.
A Las Vegas judge sentenced a 24-year-old woman to between 10 and 25 years in prison Thursday for killing her 3-month-old son.
Senior U.S. District Judge Larry Hicks died after he was hit by a vehicle near the district courthouse in downtown Reno, the Reno Police Department said. He was 80.
Las Vegas police arrested three suspects they allege kidnapped a child at gunpoint and held him against his will while they demanded a ransom from his parents.
Darryl Smith, 36, has been charged with DUI, reckless driving in connection with a Jan. 7 crash that killed a woman and her two young sons.
Brian Laugeson was arrested in July after police found him with his children in a hot car in a desert area near Henderson.
Henderson City Council approved an agreement in July to allow a third-party private contractor to process some of the city’s hundreds of backlogged DUI blood tests.
A fiery Fourth of July with dozens of suspected impaired drivers and thousands of pounds of illegal fireworks kept Las Vegas valley law enforcement busy.
No video was captured of the moment a man allegedly pointed a handgun at police officers and was fatally shot on his balcony.
Gary Hargis, the outgoing Henderson police union president who was suspended as the department investigated whether he struck a motorcyclist in a hit-and-run, is now facing criminal charges.
Hundreds of mourners gathered in a Henderson church Friday to honor Nevada Highway Patrol trooper Micah May after his death last week. Following the memorial, another procession took May’s body to a public graveside service.
The Clark County coroner’s office has identified two people that police said were shot and killed by the same man last week during a string of violent crimes.
A Review-Journal investigation found Henderson officers with years of misconduct kept their jobs. Confidential police records revealed why.
“I would compare the crime spree to a Bonnie and Clyde situation,” Clark County’s district attorney told the Las Vegas Review-Journal. “It’s incredible how many people they shot at.”
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Senior U.S. District Judge Larry Hicks died after he was hit by a vehicle near the district courthouse in downtown Reno, the Reno Police Department said. He was 80.
Las Vegas police arrested three suspects they allege kidnapped a child at gunpoint and held him against his will while they demanded a ransom from his parents.
A Las Vegas woman faces a murder charge after police allege she intentionally struck her boyfriend with her car, according to court records.
The student’s lawyers claim he was threatened, discriminated against at UNLV, amid taunts from pro-Palestinian protesters and inaction by the administration and Board of Regents.