Metropolitan Police Department Assistant Sheriff Sasha Larkin said officers showed “great humanity and restraint” during the fatal shooting in the southeast valley at a Tuesday news conference.
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The manslaughter case against the owner of the Alpine Motel Apartments is on pause for a month, as more testimony is expected to continue in April.
Nearly 15 years after she was released from prison, “show and tell” killer Sandy Shaw was pardoned on Tuesday by the state Board of Pardons Commissioners.
Police were called to an area near Decatur Boulevard and Charleston Boulevard at 3:56 p.m., the Metropolitan Police Department said.
A 16-year-old boy stands accused of murder in the deadly shooting of a 75-year-old security guard last week.
Las Vegas police criticized a resident’s decision to livestream a deadly standoff Saturday between an armed man and police , saying that it could have endangered lives.
A woman shot and killed her estranged husband last week at a home on the 4000 block of Emerald Wood Street, near Nellis and Las Vegas boulevards, Las Vegas police said.
Three alleged MS-13 gang members appeared Wednesday in a Las Vegas courtroom to face charges in the kidnapping and murder of a rival gang member whose body was found mutilated on federal property in Southern Nevada.
Karen Berney was watching a television interview with an Oct. 1 shooting victim when he mentioned a red pickup truck with tinted windows. It was hers.
A rash of holiday season killings has propelled the Las Vegas Valley closer to last year’s record-setting homicide numbers.
A Las Vegas man was convicted Tuesday of raping and murdering a mother and her 10-year-old daughter in a bloody 2012 attack that nearly killed the woman’s husband.
Las Vegas police say they are concerned that a prisoner was left unattended with access to a stun gun before an officer fatally shot him Monday inside a hospital room.
John Valerio was just 22 when he was first convicted of murder and placed on death row in 1988 for fatally stabbing a 26-year-old Las Vegas woman. But in 2002, after more than a dozen years of imprisonment, an error prompted a federal appeals court to overturn Valerio’s sentence while upholding his conviction.
After awaiting trial for almost nine years, a reputed drug dealer was convicted Wednesday of convincing a handyman to kill his sixth wife before fatally shooting the hit man inside the couple’s northwest valley home.
None of Bayzle Morgan’s neo-Nazi head and neck tattoos was visible to jurors Thursday, as lawyers gave opening statements in his robbery trial.
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The Board of School Trustees decided on an Illinois-based search firm to recommend candidates for the office.
Researchers are looking for people in the Las Vegas Valley with loved ones who have the disease also known as juvenile diabetes.
Senior U.S. District Judge Larry Hicks died after he was hit by a vehicle near the district courthouse in downtown Reno, the Reno Police Department said. He was 80.
The chef-owned spot drew on American, Mexican and European traditions for its menu of comfort food with a twist.