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.
Jeremiya Hines is being held without bail on charges of open murder and attempted murder, according to jail records.
Las Vegas police arrested a man Thursday in connection with an unprovoked stabbing in the east valley.
A student who says he is immune from COVID-19 because he already had it is suing the University of Nevada, Reno, the governor and others over the state’s vaccine requirement.
Two Metropolitan Police Department officers involved in the fatal shooting of a bank robbery suspect in northwest Las Vegas were identified Friday.
Four month after a Las Vegas woman was shot by her ex-boyfriend, she is hoping the criminal justice system will help her stop living in fear by putting her assailant in jail.
The suspect told officers he found an “M-80 wrapped in tape” and put it in a refrigerator in a vacant lot at 8th Street and Mesquite Avenue, where it was found by police.
Maui’s new police chief is bringing a colleague from the Las Vegas department he came from to serve as his deputy chief.
“Thankfully no one was hurt,” police spokesman Alex Cuevas said of the 3:45 a.m. Friday crash into a Dotty’s bar on the 2500 block of Las Vegas Boulevard North.
A Las Vegas man has been arrested on suspicion of driving while impaired in a Thursday afternoon crash that killed one pedestrian and injured a second in central Las Vegas.
Critics decried Metro’s actions as non-transparent and contrary to Sheriff Joe Lombardo’s stance that his department focuses on helping ICE capture, deport violent offenders.
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.