A gunman shot and killed after police said he appeared to threaten a motorist in a Henderson shopping center Thursday was identified by the Clark County coroner’s office.
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A jury on Friday awarded $3 billion in punitive damages to eight plaintiffs who sued the Real Water bottled water company.
Dianelys Fernandez, 33, and Guillermo Ramirez Lastre, 54, have each been charged with two counts of open murder and two counts of robbery.
The Metropolitan Police Department said it made nearly two dozen DUI arrests on Las Vegas Valley roads during a weekend “DUI Blitz.”
Two people were killed on roads in the Las Vegas Valley this weekend, and a man was fatally shot by North Las Vegas police.
Police say neighborhood crime can start at your own front door, especially during this time of year as last-minute Christmas gift deliveries are made.
Police are reporting a spike in thefts of large pickup trucks in the Las Vegas Valley.
The lawsuit, filed on Tuesday in District Court, alleges that Maysen Melton tackled the plaintiff around May 2016 and sodomized her against her will.
Officials said the recent deaths of five women in the Las Vegas Valley have no known connections, despite an internet rumor of a serial killer in the valley.
The lawsuit, filed last week in District Court, claims the district and Maysen Melton’s parents disregarded other students’ safety by allowing him to stay in public school.
A handful of students were cited Thursday morning on the last day of school after fights broke out at three Las Vegas Valley high schools.
Sonya White has had an outpouring of love on social media this week, following her death Wednesday morning in what police say was a murder-suicide in the central valley.
Disorderly conduct and attempted theft charges against Dr. S. Jay Hazan, who grabbed the keys to a shuttle bus after the driver refused to take him straight home from a doctor’s appointment, will be dismissed if he stays out of trouble.
The mother of 3-year-old Francillon Pierre faces a murder charge more than 30 years after the boy disappeared, but the location of his body remains unclear, authorities announced Monday.
Telephone scammers have been disguising their phone numbers by using the Metropolitan Police Department’s “828” prefix number in order to solicit or scam victims in the Las Vegas Valley, the department said Tuesday.
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.” […]
North Las Vegas police shot and killed a man who reportedly raised a firearm towards several officers on Saturday night, according to authorities.
A fatal shooting at a Walmart parking lot is being investigated as a possible case of self-defense, according to the Henderson Police Department.
A suspect accused in a hit-and-run crash that killed a pedestrian told investigators that she had struck construction equipment, according to her arrest report.
The bodies were discovered June 5 in the 4900 block of South Droubay Drive, near Tropicana Avenue.