When a Baltimore teenager fired on classmates on the first day of school this week, officials at the Southern Nevada Counterterrorism Center were watching closely. A school shooting thousands of miles away probably has nothing to do with Las Vegas or terrorism. But the cops at the local fusion center have to be sure.
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A multi-state search was under way late Friday for a Henderson teenager who was being held for ransom after being snatched at her front door, police said.
Two Henderson brothers face up to 40 years in prison after pleading guilty Thursday to growing, then trying to sell more than 100 marijuana plants.
Maria Del Carmen Gomez, 53, was attacked March 21 outside a convenience store at Craig Road and North Fifth Street. Her former boyfriend, Armando Vergara-Martinez, faces charges of attempted murder and domestic violence.
Two adults and a 3-year-old girl at an east valley bus stop were hit by a driver who lost control of his vehicle and jumped the sidewalk Saturday afternoon, Las Vegas police said.
It’s harvest season for Southern Nevada marijuana farmers, and authorities say police are on pace to surpass the number of plants seized in Nevada last year and that totals have been increasing each year. Nevada authorities have seized 44,738 plants so far in 2012.