An 18-year-old was taken into custody after police said he was “doing donuts in the grass area” of a Henderson park.
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Roidan Durruthy Mendoza is accused of killing his estranged wife and injuring three others during a shooting at an apartment complex in August.
Henderson Justice Court Department 1 and Department 3 are both on the ballot in the upcoming primary election.
A coalition of UNLV students and community organizers decried gun violence Tuesday morning near the site of a campus shooting that killed three professors last year.
A Clark County School District substitute teacher accused of handing a student inappropriate notes reportedly admitted he was infatuated with her.
They serve and protect. And sometimes they shoot and kill. Las Vegas Valley police have been involved in 378 shootings since 1990, 142 of them fatal. One agency alone, the Metropolitan Police Department, was responsible for 310 shootings and 115 deaths.
The homicide investigation and coroner’s inquest that followed her son’s 1999 shooting death left Connie Perrin angry and dissatisfied, so she sought emotional and financial redress in federal court.
In the wake of two controversial officer-involved shooting deaths in the summer of 2010, the Review-Journal set out to analyze two decades of shootings by officers from the Las Vegas Valley’s five major law enforcement agencies
In June 1996, Andre Rowe sat in a packed hearing room listening to testimony about the night his father was killed by Las Vegas police officer George “Gregg” Pease, who was in the position of having to explain his third fatal shooting in five years.
Police shootings make headlines. Far more common incidents when an officer would be justified in using deadly force, but elects not to, seldom get much attention.
A Review-Journal examination of all police shootings in Clark County since 1990 found that cops who use their guns sometimes show a pattern of questionable behavior beforehand or land in serious trouble after.
Frequently asked questions about the use of deadly force by law enforcement agencies
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Roidan Durruthy Mendoza is accused of killing his estranged wife and injuring three others during a shooting at an apartment complex in August.
A Clark County School District substitute teacher accused of handing a student inappropriate notes reportedly admitted he was infatuated with her.
Faith Lutheran Middle School & High School had $25,000 in marching band equipment stolen from its marching band and color guard trailer last week.
One victim was pronounced deceased at the scene while another later died at an area hospital after arriving on his own.