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.
Brandy Stutzman was convicted Monday of first-degree murder and burglary charges in the 2010 killing of her husband.
A Las Vegas man has been charged with taking part in the 2006 murder of the leader of an organization with criminal ties in San Francisco’s Chinatown.
Joel Nuno-Cruz, 24, who is wanted in connection with a homicide at the OK Corral bar as well as a string of robberies, is in custody Thursday night, police said.
A man wanted since the start of the year for brazenly robbing several east valley businesses at gunpoint is the same man wanted for killing a man and injuring a waitress Saturday at an east valley bar, Las Vegas police said Monday.
Brandy Stutzman faces the death penalty for the slaying of her husband. If a jury decides on capital punishment, she would be the only woman on death row in Nevada.
A day after 17-year-old Richard Newsome surrendered to police to face a murder charge in the fatal shooting of Richard Nelson, police said Newsome has been certified as an adult and will be prosecuted in the adult justice system.
A 24-year-old man wanted for a homicide in Las Vegas was shot and injured by police gunfire on Tuesday in Anaheim, California.
Some people saw Richard Nelson as a football star, others saw him as a friend, but everyone who knew him said he’ll be long remembered.
Saida Maldonado’s son Jared Medina was cut down by a bullet earlier this month. But she said he’ll live on through his music and his lyrics.
The Metropolitan Police Department investigated more homicides in 2016 than in any other year since at least 1990.
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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.
