Pungent smoke filled Draven Avila’s lungs, waking him before dawn Tuesday. What he saw next, flames consuming the top of his double-wide trailer home, sparked the 16-year-old into action.
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Las Vegas Township Constable John Bonaventura is appealing to the Nevada Supreme Court in his fight to preserve the existence of his office.
A proposal to change the way Las Vegas funds public art didn’t impress critics on the city’s recommending committee who rejected the idea.
Salmonella made dozens of people sick after eating at the Firefly Tapas Kitchen and Bar on Paradise Road last week, health officials said Tuesday. At least 39 people fell ill after eating at the popular eatery, prompting the Southern Nevada Health District to close the restaurant Friday.
A fixture in the Las Vegas restaurant scene was shut down by the Southern Nevada Health District after at least 39 people contracted a food-borne illness.
On the morning of Jan. 21, Las Vegas police Lt. Hans Walters called a 911 dispatcher and told her he had killed his family.
A man was shot and killed Monday afternoon in downtown Las Vegas.
Las Vegas has 99 problems, to borrow a phrase from rapper Jay-Z, and Mother Nature is one of them.
Sixty years ago they were a couple of buff, teenage Marines who shared the frontline trenches at the end of the Korean War.
Wesley Warren Jr., the 48-year-old Las Vegas man whose emotional and physical struggles with a 132-pound scrotum drew international attention, has undergone successful surgery to remove the mass, according to the California surgeon who led the team that performed the nearly 13-hour procedure.
There were no techniques taught in this April 10 art class at Innovations International Charter School of Nevada. Students were learning more important things from guest teacher and professional artist Alexander P. Huerta.
In an unprecedented decision, the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department has recommended an officer be fired for his actions in a police shooting. Officer Jacquar Roston, 36, is on administrative leave since the November shooting of a man in an east valley park. Roston shot the man in the leg after mistaking the shine from a label on the man’s hat for a gun.
After a yearlong search, the Las Vegas Urban League has appointed Kevin E. Hooks as its new CEO.
Dennis Hope, 65, has gained a ton of notoriety for his idea (scheme? business?) to sell bits of the moon for 20 bucks a pop to anyone who finds his Nevada company on the Internet.
A woman who was beaten and stabbed to death early Sunday has been identified by the Clark County coroner’s office.
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Shiva Gummi was arrested in April 2023 after he told a 911 dispatcher he had killed his wife, who was a new doctor at University Medical Center.
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.
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