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Demonstrators stormed downtown Las Vegas’ First Friday issuing a call for justice and showing their solidarity with other “die-ins” staged across the country in response to recent officer-involved shootings in which African-American men were killed and law enforcement faced no consequences.
Las Vegas attorney David Phillips filed a defamation lawsuit Thursday that accuses the State Bar of Nevada of leaking confidential information about him to the press.
Nevada officials are working with Clark County Department of Family Services to increase Child Haven’s capacity for the second time in five months. Clark County’s emergency shelter for abused and neglected children saw its latest surge in population last week when it was housing 97 residents, exceeding its state-approved capacity of 70.
One person is dead and another is hospitalized after a Friday night shooting near a central valley middle school, according to Las Vegas police.
Third-grade teacher Brenda Moynihan came up with Sewell Elementary School’s idea for a Farmers Insurance grant and wrote a 30-page application to support her idea for expanding access to technology in the Henderson school’s community. On Friday, she found out she had succeeded.
Clark County and University Medical Center officials are under additional pressure to lock a leadership team into place after the selection Friday of the public hospital’s third chief executive in less than a year.
A bystander armed with a handgun played a key role in stopping a Thursday night robbery at a Las Vegas Red Lobster, according to police.
The sun began peeking through clouds over Las Vegas on Friday after two days of thick fog cover, bringing pleasantly warm temperatures throughout the day.
Death penalty cases may cost Nevada even more than a recent audit shows because prosecutors in Clark and Washoe counties didn’t provide key figures to the state.
Derrick Valentine was sentenced Friday to 30 years to life in prison for the rape and strangulation of 35-year-old Melodie Walker, an employee with the Metro Police Department.
The Nevada System of Higher Education Board of Regents on Friday approved a public-private partnership between a land developer and UNLV to build a 610-space parking garage and a new home for the UNLV police department by January 2016.
Nevada State College president Bart Patterson was given a new 3½-year contract by the Nevada System of Higher Education Board of Regents on Friday.
A man police say fled the scene of a fatal crash that killed a bicyclist in November has been arrested, Henderson police said Friday.
Clark County commissioners on Tuesday approved two deals aimed at helping medical education in Southern Nevada, including the development of the UNLV School of Medicine in Las Vegas.
The Clark County coroner’s office has released the cause of deaths for the man and woman found dead Wednesday in what detectives classified as a murder-suicide.
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A weak trough passing north of Las Vegas will bring some gusty winds as the only blemish on a Memorial Day weekend forecast, says the National Weather Service.
Nicholas Bott, 44, had been facing a felony charge of child abuse and a gross misdemeanor count of contact with a minor.
Safety while boating at Lake Mead National Recreation Area has long been an issue, leading to several deaths almost every year since 2000.
An 18-year-old was taken into custody after police said he was “doing donuts in the grass area” of a Henderson park.
