Las Vegas police investigated a fatal crash and a killing at a house party, and two officers shot a person they said tried to stab someone.
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The wounded man died outside a residence where a party took place in northwest Las Vegas near West Oakey Boulevard.
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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.
Police say the man held a woman hostage, threatened to open fire on officers and threw furniture out of a Las Vegas Strip hotel room.
A man held a woman hostage inside a Strip hotel room for more than five hours, police said. Objects were hurled out of the room’s broken window.
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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.
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.