“Drowning doesn’t look like anything. It’s silent,” Metropolitan Police Department spokesman Larry Hadfield told me this week. “When someone drowns, they’re taking in water. There’s no screaming.”
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A man died Friday evening after crashing his motorcycle into a car in the intersection of West Flamingo Road and South El Capitan Way in the west Las Vegas Valley.
Aramazd Andressian Sr., 35, is being held at the Clark County Detention Center in Las Vegas, according to the Metropolitan Police Department. Bail was set at $10 million.
Clark County School District officials last year trumpeted an innovative new salary structure, then rolled back key parts of it. The teachers union cried foul and filed an unfair labor complaint with the state of Nevada.
Prosecutors and defense attorneys rested their cases on Friday in the double murder trial of Thomas Randolph. Should jurors convict 62-year-old Randolph of first-degree murder, the panel is expected to decide his punishment. Prosecutors are seeking the death penalty.
The Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department has been awarded a $500,000 grant to fight terrorist recruitment and radicalization, Rep. Dina Titus announced Friday.
Gov. Brian Sandoval headed a list of dignitaries that on Friday welcomed Australian slot-machine manufacturer Aristocrat Technologies Inc. to Summerlin where the company is building a 180,000 square-foot Las Vegas campus.
Danny Pieper brought his friend Vinny to wait in line as some of the first customers to the new Trader Joe’s grocery store at Centennial Center Boulevard and Ann Road.
One person is in critical condition after a stabbing at an apartment complex near the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino early Friday morning, according to the Metropolitan Police Department.
Fire near Lake Mead and Nellis boulevards is confined to the yard of the plant and is not threatening any structures, authorities say.
Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority security officers, paid by taxpayers and charged with protecting visitors, drive CEO Rossi Ralenkotter and and former Las Vegas Mayor Oscar Goodman to casinos, shops and other locations so often that staff members dubbed the dispatches “Rossi runs” and “Oscar runs” in security logs obtained by the Las Vegas Review-Journal.
A barricade situation in the northwest valley ended early Friday moring with Las Vegas police taking three suspects into custody. No one was injured.
