Fireworks exploded at midnight in Las Vegas as revelers braved blustery conditions and a pandemic Friday to ring in 2022 with the return of “America’s Party.”
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After his cousin died, Truman Brown recognized a need in the heart of the city’s Black community for access to affordable funeral services.
Las Vegas police officer Shay Mikalonis was handcuffing a protester near Circus Circus. Edgar Samaniego was checked into a nearby motel. Several miles away, protester Jorge Gomez ran from a swarm of officers.
The release of Las Vegas police body camera videos paints a more complete picture of how officers and firefighters worked together on the morning of the Alpine Motel Apartments fire.
The Metropolitan Police Department mischaracterized a woman struck and killed by a Regional Transportation Commission bus as “transient,” her brother said Friday.
In true Vegas style, there was no shortage of colorful characters on the Strip and in downtown Las Vegas as 2019 came to an end.
Her body would later be found in the hallway near the back door, according to her nephew, one of six victims killed in the deadliest residential fire in the city’s history.
All six victims were Las Vegas residents and died in the early hours Saturday when a fire broke out at the downtown apartment complex.
The woman’s cause and manner of death had not been determined by the Clark County coroner’s office as of Wednesday morning.
The victim crashed into the fence about 2:35 a.m. on West Ogden Avenue, east of South City Parkway, after losing control at a left-hand curve in the road.
A possible drug-related shooting in late August at a downtown Las Vegas apartment complex that left a 50-year-old woman dead remains unsolved.
A man is facing a felony charge after he allegedly “sucker punched” a 61-year-old man this month inside a downtown Las Vegas casino during an argument over a cashout voucher worth 20 cents, according to the suspect’s arrest report.
Family members are asking the public to keep an eye out for a missing Las Vegas military veteran with medical issues who has not been seen or heard from for nearly a week.
The death was reported just after 7:45 a.m. near West Owens Avenue and Stocker Street.
A downtown senior living community has created a GoFundMe campaign in support of a fellow resident whose partner died after he was shoved off a bus.
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