Nevada’s two public universities experienced spikes in reports of sexual, domestic and dating violence incidents from 2017 to 2018, according to a report to be presented this week to the Board of Regents.
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The third-grader who found his mother’s gun in his backpack at Bracken Elementary School earlier this week told police that there “are a lot of weapons at his house.”
Clark County School District police arrested Joshua Youngblood after reviewing social media messages he allegedly exchanged with a minor student.
UNLV students want to know why the university took more than five days to warn the campus about a shooting threat targeting African-Americans and supporters of Bernie Sanders.
No injuries were reported, and there was no reports of weapons used during the violence at Del Sol Academy of the Performing Arts, Clark County School District police said.
The lawsuit, filed on Tuesday in District Court, alleges that Maysen Melton tackled the plaintiff around May 2016 and sodomized her against her will.
Clark County School District police arrested a 16-year-old Desert Pines High School student on Tuesday for bringing a gun on campus — the first weapon seizure credited to its K-9 team.
A male student was arrested Thursday at Chaparral High School on charges including robbery and assault — both with a deadly weapon.
Two northwest valley schools were temporarily locked down Wednesday afternoon while officers looked for two people involved in a carjacking, Las Vegas police said.
Far West Academy was placed on lockdown for several hours Friday after a resident called police to say a man inside a suspicious vehicle flashed a gun in northwest Las Vegas.
The complaint filed this week alleges that the school district and Maysen Melton’s parents failed to protect his fellow students despite his record as a sexual predator.
A former Clark County substitute teacher faces seven counts of lewdness with a child under the age of 14. Steven Michael Cochran, 72, is on house arrest and has pleaded not guilty.
The lawsuit, filed last week in District Court, claims the district and Maysen Melton’s parents disregarded other students’ safety by allowing him to stay in public school.
A handful of students were cited Thursday morning on the last day of school after fights broke out at three Las Vegas Valley high schools.
A 16-year-old student has been charged with battery following a fight at Centennial High School on Wednesday that sent a classmate to the hospital, according to school police.
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