Maurice Iorio traveled from Las Vegas to Chicago in the summer of 2013 for what was considered a procedure of last resort: surgery to remove his bladder.
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Shauna Tiaffay spoke to her husband for three minutes the night before she died. George Tiaffay hung up with his wife and, within a minute, dialed the number of a homeless man who said he was hired to kill the 46-year-old Palms waitress.
Metro on Monday identified the officer who shot and killed a man police said was armed during a weekend foot chase.
A 28-year-old man was shot and killed in a 7-Eleven parking lot early Monday, according to North Las Vegas police.
A man shot and killed by a Metro officer in a North Las Vegas foot chase on Saturday morning was identified by the Clark County coroner’s office.
Metro seeks police recruits
A man is dead after a Metro-involved shooting early Saturday morning in North Las Vegas, the Police Department said. Las Vegas police were called about 3:15 a.m. to a business in the 5000 block of East Craig Road, near Nellis Boulevard, on reports of “a larceny from a person,” a Metro release states.
Evidence fails to support claims that the diabetes drug Actos causes bladder cancer, a lawyer for the drug’s manufacturer said Friday.
A 4-year-old boy who died after being found in a hot car had been there at least two to three hours, Las Vegas police said Friday.
A former UNLV football player who claims a surgeon botched a spinal surgery and ended his football career told a jury Friday he went from “playing football to being damn-near crippled” within weeks of the procedure.
Less than three weeks before Shauna Tiaffay was bludgeoned to death in her Summerlin apartment, confessed hitman Noel Stevens asked an acquaintance to pawn a diamond ring.
At 84, Mary Luebeck had beaten the odds. She left a life of poverty in Puerto Rico, worked hard in New York and Chicago, then retired to Las Vegas, where she also beat cancer. In the Las Vegas chapter of her story, Luebeck tried to improve the odds of others.
Henderson and Boulder City police handed out nearly 400 tickets during a recent initiative to crack down on speeding and distracted driving, the departments announced Thursday.
A 4-year-old boy died Thursday night after he was left in a hot car in the east valley, Las Vegas police said.
The mile-and-a-half stretch of Tropicana Avenue between Decatur Boulevard and Interstate 15 has long been notorious among police for its abundance of prostitutes.