Las Vegas police arrested three suspects they allege kidnapped a child at gunpoint Saturday and held him against his will for about six hours while they demanded a ransom from his parents.
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Henderson and North Las Vegas filed a petition in March challenging a policy change that affected nonvoting school board members’ power during meetings.
A Las Vegas woman faces a murder charge after police allege she intentionally struck her boyfriend with her car, according to court records.
The shooting occurred about 8:30 p.m. near East Lake Mead Boulevard near North Pecos Road, according to the police department.
Suspect Emmanuel Almonor faces the possibility of multiple phone spoofing fraud charges after he was arrested by the Henderson Police Department’s financial crimes unit.
A defrocked priest put out a Craigslist ad seeking “young and good looking men” to wrestle. A 25-year-old man who responded would ultimately become a murder suspect in his death.
A murder suspect has been named in the deadly shooting of a defrocked New Jersey priest earlier this year. Derrick Decoste, 25, is wanted for murder and robbery, police said.
Eight months after a state deadline requiring police departments to outfit forces with body cameras, North Las Vegas officers still do not wear the devices.
A 70-year-old man’s death is being investigated as a homicide, Henderson police announced Monday.
Henderson resident Elizabeth Cole, who was shot Monday, shared her story in an interview this week, hoping to draw attention to violence targeting transgender people.
Last year was the deadliest on record for two Clark County suburbs, while Las Vegas police saw a drop in homicides for the first time since 2012.
Michael Ray Stevens, 43, was being held in Henderson Detention Center on two counts each of domestic battery by strangulation and domestic battery, as well as a count of coercion, jail records show.
Matthew Dunkley, 53, is suspected of misappropriating financial settlements and taking money from insurance companies that was intended to pay for their medical bills, police say.
Eight officers shot at an armed man involved in a robbery Saturday morning in Henderson, police said.
Henderson police released body-worn camera footage Friday night of an officer shooting at a car that had just run over his foot. It was the first shooting by a Henderson police officer this year.
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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.
The park near Bermuda Road and Pebble Road honors a Metropolitan Police Department sergeant who was shot and killed in the line of duty in 2006.
A joint traffic safety operation by the Nevada Highway Patrol and California Highway Patrol resulted in hundreds of drivers cited over Memorial Day weekend, authorities said.