A person suffered life-threatening injuries after they were intentionally struck by a vehicle near downtown Las Vegas, according to police.
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A hit-and-run suspect accused of killing a pedestrian last month in central Las Vegas was arrested Thursday, according to the Metropolitan Police Department.
A woman has sued Las Vegas police, alleging that police kept her hijab from her when she was being detained, and that she resorted to using her own bra as a covering.
Colin Czech is accused of killing a man outside a downtown convenience store and eating parts of the victim’s face, police said.
A suspect is in custody in a deadly shooting this past weekend in the northwest Las Vegas Valley.
Two people were injured Sunday evening after being struck by a hit-and-run driver in the Hard Rock Hotel parking garage, Las Vegas police said.
The night rioters and looters sent pockets of the Historic Westside up in flames, a familiar voice guided the community through the chaos. It was Louis “L.C.” Conner Jr., broadcasting loud and clear from KCEP, “The People’s Station,” located in the heart of the Westside.
An early morning stabbing at a Las Vegas nightclub left three men injured with at least one in critical condition, police said.
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While the riots in Los Angeles were far bigger and deadlier, the unrest in Las Vegas’ predominantly black community exposed festering problems and became a pivotal moment in police and community relations.
Riots after the Rodney King verdicts 25 years ago proved to be a watershed in the relationship between Las Vegas police and the city’s historically black community.
Federal prosecutors throughout the West have struggled recently to win conspiracy convictions against groups of loosely organized individual rights activists who identify with an anti-government movement that is best known for staging armed protests on federally managed land.
A man was arrested Monday on suspicion of holding a woman hostage in Las Vegas and beating her after she said she wouldn’t become a prostitute, arrest records show.
A man was arrested Thursday on suspicion of beating his girlfriend’s 2-year-old daughter, causing critical injuries, according to a Metropolitan Police Department arrest report.
Lois Bolden lives in the heart of the Historic Westside, near Martin Luther King Boulevard and Washington Avenue. The area was forced into existence because of segregation, a time in the mid-20th century when black men and women couldn’t visit the Strip or live anywhere near it.
Las Vegas is a special kind of resort city. On the inside, you get The Strip (and now, 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.” […]
Colin Czech is accused of killing a man outside a downtown convenience store and eating parts of the victim’s face, police said.
Shiva Gummi was arrested in April 2023 after he told a 911 dispatcher he had killed his wife, who was a new doctor at University Medical Center.
Nicholas Bott, 44, had been facing a felony charge of child abuse and a gross misdemeanor count of contact with a minor.
An 18-year-old was taken into custody after police said he was “doing donuts in the grass area” of a Henderson park.