A Pahrump man facing animal cruelty charges told investigators that he punctured the shell of a desert tortoise to put a leash on the animal.
Blake Apgar
Former politics reporter
The helicopters carrying 16 guardsmen left Reno for Lakeport, California, at about 10 a.m. Both helicopters are equipped with water buckets to help extinguish the blaze.
High temperatures and lingering chances of thunderstorms are in the forecast for the Las Vegas Valley this week, according to the National Weather Service.
Las Vegas police arrested four people, including three juveniles, in a deadly shooting this month in the eastern valley.
A former Las Vegas police officer avoided a grand jury indictment Thursday, but the criminal case in the death of an unarmed man on the Strip might not be over.
A woman who was injured in a rollover crash northwest of Las Vegas this month died from her injuries Tuesday, police said.
The state’s second-largest city had just over two reported violent crimes per 1,000 people in 2016, according to a report by SafeWise.
The Mohave County medical examiner’s office has identified a man who possibly drowned Monday at Lake Mohave in Arizona.
A developer on Tuesday agreed to pay more than $8 million for land near the Raiders’ future corporate headquarters and practice facility in Henderson.
The Metropolitan Police Department will pay $500,000 to the mother of a man who died in police custody in a case that spurred changes in the department’s Taser policy.
A man died in a possible drowning Monday afternoon at Lake Mohave, National Park Service officials said in a news release.
Wayne Pulsipher was taken into custody Monday afternoon after a man reported that he and his 18-year-old son were shot at in a desert area.
Fire officials were called to the Interstate 15 offramp onto Martin Luther King Boulevard at about 4:10 p.m., Las Vegas Fire Department spokesman Tim Szymanski said.
Las Vegas resident Michael Anthony Garcia, 40, was shot Thursday at a home on the 4100 block of Oakhill Avenue, near U.S. Highway 95 and East Harmon Avenue, police said.
The sweltering forecast prompted the weather service to issue an excessive heat warning from Tuesday through Thursday. A high of 111 degrees is forecast for Tuesday, followed by a high of 113 on Wednesday, according to the weather service.
