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Kaysee Nitta didn’t cry the night she was burned over 80 percent of her body three months ago, but the 16-year-old’s mother said she cried earlier this week when Michael Brandon Boyd Jr. was arrested on charges that he caused the explosion that severely burned her and six of her classmates.
A boy was hospitalized with non-critical injuries after being hit by a car in the northeast valley Friday afternoon, Las Vegas police said.
The District Attorney is announcing changes to ensure transparency when the Victim/Witnesses Assistance Fund is used, the office announce via a press release Friday.
U.S. Rep. Dina Titus, D-Nev., joined a handful of lawmakers from the United States and Mexico at the border on Friday to talk about the surge north of unaccompanied children from Central America.
A judge set bail at $70,000 Friday for a Las Vegas woman who was behind the wheel in a crash that killed her 9-year-old niece.
Leave it to downtown casino legend Jackie Gaughan to play the gracious host even after he’s gone.
A military aircraft made an emergency landing at McCarran International Airport on Friday afternoon, airport officials said. A C-17 cargo plane landed safely at 3:46 p.m. after a pilot reported smoke in the cockpit, airport spokesman Chris Jones said.
The brother of two suspects in the 1998 shooting deaths of two Las Vegas men gave emotional testimony Friday in the federal murder case.
Three people are hospitalized following a Friday afternoon rollover crash in the southwest valley. Las Vegas police responded to the single-vehicle crash at 2:26 p.m. near South Cimarron Road and Lapis Springs Lane, near Desert Inn Road, said Las Vegas police spokesman Jose Hernandez.
The ex-wife of an Arizona shooting range instructor accidentally killed by a 9-year-old girl learning to use an Uzi said Friday that her family plans to write the child a letter to comfort her.
An English-language al-Qaida publication that promotes “lone-wolf” terrorist attacks includes Las Vegas on a list of possible terrorism targets.
Southern Utah University is removing U.S. Sen. Harry Reid’s name from the school’s Outdoor Engagement Center after several donors said they’d contribute money if the name was changed.
Residents of Southern Highlands and neighborhoods east of Las Vegas Boulevard South can celebrate: The Cactus Avenue interchange on Interstate 15 is open.
Eastbound Lake Mead Boulevard was closed briefly after a Friday afternoon rollover near Tonopah Drive.
Nearby residents are hoping that the razing of 20 vacant, arson-plagued homes across several of North Las Vegas’ most blighted residential blocks will eventually help wake the whole North Valley neighborhood from its decades-long slumber.
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Speakers at a Board of Regents meeting expressed disappointment in a lack of response from the board and UNLV leadership on a recent commencement speech.
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.
