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 former tenant at the Alpine Motel Apartments filed a lawsuit against the building’s former owner in the latest legal action tied to the 2019 deadly fire.
Victims of the deadliest residential fire in Las Vegas history still suffer from PTSD, long-lasting injuries and struggle to make a living while court case drags on.
A man killed by a suspected drunk driver in downtown Las Vegas a week ago was a military veteran and longtime federal employee in Las Vegas, a friend said this week.
Daysia Brown, 24, of Henderson told a Las Vegas police officer that “she was drunk and that she deserved what was coming to her,” according to an arrest report.
Las Vegas police were investigating a homicide in the downtown corridor early Tuesday in which a man was stabbed in the neck during an altercation.
The family of a woman who died in the 2019 Alpine Motel Apartment fire filed a lawsuit this week against the companies that maintained the building’s fire alarm system.
A Jeep driver who police say ran a red light and caused a fatal crash early Friday in downtown Las Vegas has been arrested on suspicion of driving while impaired.
Court cases have shown detailed accounts of Tony Hsieh’s drug use and bizarre behavior, and allegations that people close to Hsieh took advantage of him financially as his health spiraled downward.
Las Vegas police homicide detectives recently searched through mounds of trash at Republic Services to find a firearm they say links a man to a downtown Las Vegas slaying .
The suspect told officers he found an “M-80 wrapped in tape” and put it in a refrigerator in a vacant lot at 8th Street and Mesquite Avenue, where it was found by police.
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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.