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 contribution from a Las Vegas law firm was announced Wednesday by the 1 October Memorial Committee during its monthly meeting.
The online survey, which included 15 questions and was distributed by the 1 October Memorial Committee, ran between March 1 and 14.
Thomas McEniry was shot and killed by Las Vegas police on Nov. 24, 2015. What followed is a yearslong dispute over the facts of the case between police and his family.
A California medical examiner has ruled that the woman died from injuries she suffered in the shooting, but Las Vegas police said the official death toll isn’t changing.
Charles Bush was killed by Las Vegas police three decades after the Civil Rights Movement and three decades before the Black Lives Matter movement. What’s changed — and what hasn’t — in that time?
Officers took Daniel Lopez-Jauregi into custody Saturday on the 4700 block of Corsaire Avenue, about three blocks south of the shooting site, according to the Metropolitan Police Department.
As students shift to online learning amid the COVID-19 outbreak, the FBI fears that the increased internet use could put children at risk of online sexual exploitation.
Jurors deliberated four days before returning verdicts on charges of conspiracy to participate in a racketeering enterprise, murder and using a firearm to commit murder.
The 44-year-old pastor of Iglesia Cristiana Oasis De Paz faces more than 40 felony counts between four active criminal cases.
Homicide detectives believe the pizza deliveries in the days leading up to a home invasion was a ruse to help the suspects figure out the victim’s schedule and patterns.
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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.
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.