A 2-year-old girl was struck by a van about 9:30 p.m. Thursday and died at Pecos Road and Dillon Avenue, north of Lake Mead Boulevard, a Las Vegas police watch commander said.
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Las Vegas police said they have arrested a suspect in connection with a fatal stabbing Thursday, the third in a span of 24 hours.
Nevada high school freshmen and sophomores in 2014-15 lucked out Thursday when they were freed of the graduation requirement that has kept diplomas from thousands of past students, and will likely do the same for thousands more to come.
Caesars Entertainment’s Linq retail district apparently is driving more than tourism to the heart of the Strip. Officials with the Las Vegas Monorail Co. say it’s partially responsible for a boost in ridership for the 3.9-mile elevated transit system that has seen a downward spiral in ridership since 2007.
A federal jury in Las Vegas has begun its deliberations in a civil rights case that stems from a police beating in 2007 at McCarran International Airport.
Hundreds of woolly four-footed fire suppression units, along with their bleating offspring, were unloaded into the hills west of Carson City on Thursday in what has become an annual program to reduce the risk of wildfires.
U.S. Sen. Harry Reid on Thursday called supporters of Bunkerville rancher Cliven Bundy “domestic terrorists” because they defended him against a Bureau of Land Management cattle roundup with guns and put their children in harm’s way.
Entertainment powerhouse company AEG and MGM Resorts International — partners on a $350 million, 19,500-seat arena behind New York-New York on the Strip — plan to move the first chunk of earth for the project at a groundbreaking ceremony set for May 1.
A 24-year-old man was arrested on murder charges Wednesday after Las Vegas police said he stabbed another man during a fight over a woman outside a Savers thrift store at 3121 Rancho Drive., near Cheyenne Avenue.
You see them when you pull up to a red light. They hold up cardboard signs that say, “Fell on hard times” or “Unable to work.” Panhandlers can be found on street corners even in the more affluent areas of town, such as the area around Fort Apache Road and Charleston Boulevard.
Shawn P. Lampman, a real estate developer with one-time political connections in North Las Vegas, pleaded guilty Thursday to one misdemeanor count of failing to file a 2007 tax return.
Mexican musical icon Juan Gabriel is expected to be released from a Las Vegas hospital this weekend after being admitted there Monday with pneumonia.
The city of Henderson continues to tap its reserves as expenses outpace revenues, according to a tentative budget filed with the state Tuesday.
If anyone can feel Cliven Bundy’s pain, it’s a man like Demar Dahl. But while some members of the public are on Bundy’s side, that doesn’t mean Bundy is on stable legal footing, Dahl says.
One person died early Thursday morning after being stabbed on the northeast side of the Las Vegas Valley.
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