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.
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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.
A man died and two other people were wounded in a shooting in northwest Las Vegas following a dispute among roommates.
A federal jury convicted a Pennsylvania man in the 2019 kidnapping and death of a woman in Southern Nevada.
“A lot of victims don’t recognize themselves as victims,” survivor Jessica Kay said. “That is something that we see often when doing this work.”
Benjamin Obadiah Foster, 36, died at a hospital Tuesday night, hours after he shot himself while hiding in a crawlspace underneath a house in Grants Pass, Oregon.
One law enforcement official says the numbers would be much higher – maybe thousands more – if staffing within the Nevada Highway Patrol wasn’t at “critically low levels.
Las Vegas police are sorting through hundreds of leads from across the nation regarding the possible identity of a slain child found Friday along state Route 160.
A Nevada prison inmate died Tuesday at a Las Vegas hospice facility, according to a prison spokeswoman.
The body was found about 3:50 p.m. near East Lake Mead Boulevard and Pabco Road, Metropolitan Police Department spokesman Larry Hadfield said.
A Toronto artist claims forged copies of his work are causing him to lose income. A lawyer for the seller claims the prints were “clearly sold as copies” and are a form of expression protected by the First Amendment.
A Clark County district judge issued a temporary restraining order Thursday that prohibits the Metropolitan Police Department from forcing officers to work overtime.
For the first time in nine years, O.J. Simpson is free. Although speculation raged about where the former football star would head next, a state official said Simpson would live in Las Vegas for now.
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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.
Roidan Durruthy Mendoza is accused of killing his estranged wife and injuring three others during a shooting at an apartment complex in August.
