Las Vegas investor and purported billionaire Jay Bloom is accused of taking money from investors to fund a cryptocurrency mining scheme in Arizona that he knew was not viable, according to a recent lawsuit.
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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.
Two-year-old Jacoby Robinson Jr. was last seen about 7:45 p.m. Thursday near Lewis Avenue and South 15th Street.
Prosecutors have dropped a slew of felony charges against a former member of a notorious Las Vegas gang, closing a case that has stretched on for more than three years.
A Metropolitan Police Department officer accidentally discharged his weapon inside the Mandalay Bay gunman’s suite the night of the Oct. 1 mass shooting, the Clark County sheriff confirmed Monday.
Questions loom about what drove heavy gambler Stephen Paddock to carry out his diabolical plot and fire into a crowd of Las Vegas concert-goers, but the answers may not be known for months — or even years.
Experts plan to photograph and diagram the Route 91 Harvest concert venue, where 58 people were fatally shot and hundreds were injured, on Tuesday.
Nearly a month has passed since the Route 91 Harvest festival mass shooting on the Las Vegas Strip, but we’re left with many unanswered questions.
Fifty-eight people killed. More than 500 injured. And yet, nearly a month after the Las Vegas Strip experienced the worst mass shooting in modern American history, local and federal authorities are now refusing to fill in the blanks.
The giant jet fuel tank struck by rifle fire during the deadly Strip mass shooting has been drained and McCarran International Airport officials are close to hiring a safety expert to inspect it.
A sometimes combative and at times emotional Clark County Sheriff Joe Lombardo on Friday announced a second significant adjustment to the Metropolitan Police Department’s timeline of events surrounding the Oct. 1 Strip attack.
Every mass-casualty event attracts its share of crackpots, and the Oct. 1 attack in Las Vegas is no different. But the flow of “fake news” about the shooting exceeds anything Sheriff Joe Lombardo has seen in other high-profile cases.
MGM Resorts International on Thursday released a new timeline of the events leading up to the Las Vegas Strip massacre, further challenging the sheriff’s latest account ahead of a planned Friday briefing.
All personal belongings left behind at the Route 91 Harvest country music festival after the mass shooting on Oct. 1 areavailable for pickup, Clark County officials announced Thursday.
Las Vegas is a special kind of resort city. In the city, you get The Strip (along with the Sphere); on the outside, you get the vast Mojave Desert with its nostalgic attractions. In the past, people visiting Las Vegas would do so with the phrase in mind: “What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas.” […]
A woman was being held hostage at knife-point by a man when two Metropolitan Police Department officers fired their weapons late Saturday night.
Former Clark County Public Administrator Robert Telles, who is accused of killing Review-Journal reporter Jeff German, appeared in court again.
A 15-year-old was fatally shot in the northeast valley during what Las Vegas police described as a “drug transaction.”
The discovery was made about 9:40 p.m. in a neighborhood near Wetlands Park, police said.