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.
Three people were found dead in a suspected murder-suicide at an apartment complex in Henderson, police said.
One person was shot in a parking garage across the street from UNLV’s main campus.
A DUI suspect accused of killing two pedestrians at an east Las Vegas bus stop told officers that she thought she had suffered a seizure and didn’t remember the crash.
Katherine Houston wrote a concerned letter to her son Dylan around the time of his divorce from Ashley Prince, records show.
A judge unsealed hundreds of documents and an assemblage of videos from a contentious custody battle linked to a shooting that left three dead.
When Lisa Rasmussen pulled into the parking lot of Prince Law Group, she knew the deposition would be intense. She had no idea it would turn deadly.
Five people have been arrested in connection with a double homicide committed nearly two years ago.
A CCSD employee allegedly engaged in sex with a student and exchanged about 1,000 text messages to entice her into a sexual relationship, officials said in an arrest report.
Authorities released details about the circumstances that led to a police officer fatally shooting a man suspected of robbing someone outside a Target store.
A fugitive from Pennsylvania for nearly four years was apprehended by Las Vegas police, according to an Allegheny County Sheriff’s Office Facebook post.
Generosity is any act of kindness or support given with no expectation of exchange or return from the recipient(s).
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.