Las Vegas investor and purported billionaire Jay Bloom is accused of taking money from investors to fund a cryptocurrency mining scheme in Arizona that he knew was not viable, according to a recent lawsuit.
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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.
Two-year-old Jacoby Robinson Jr. was last seen about 7:45 p.m. Thursday near Lewis Avenue and South 15th Street.
Prosecutors have dropped a slew of felony charges against a former member of a notorious Las Vegas gang, closing a case that has stretched on for more than three years.
The man was found in the area of Evergreen Avenue and Upland Boulevard.
A woman shot Saturday in northwest Las Vegas has died, the Clark County coroner’s office confirmed Wednesday.
The overnight shooting, which remains under investigation, forced the school into a “soft lockdown,” school officials reported.
Police said the woman was walking in the residential neighborhood when someone shot her from inside a vehicle driving by. The shooter drove off.
All property owned by Stephen Paddock, who killed dozens of Las Vegas concertgoers in 2017, has been sold and all of his guns were destroyed or taken out of circulation by the FBI.
A man was fatally shot after kicking in the door of a western valley home Wednesday night.
Handwritten letters sent to Paddock before the Route 91 Harvest festival shooting suggest that he had discussed his plans with an ex-convict.
Las Vegas is largely defined by its ability to defy expectations, and recent forecasts predicting a decline in its appeal to younger travelers are no exception. Contrary to these gloomy predictions, which suggest that an aging core visitor base might render the city’s 150,000 hotel rooms less appealing to new generations, the reality is strikingly […]
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.