Two people were injured Sunday evening after being struck by a hit-and-run driver in the Hard Rock Hotel parking garage, Las Vegas police said.
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The night rioters and looters sent pockets of the Historic Westside up in flames, a familiar voice guided the community through the chaos. It was Louis “L.C.” Conner Jr., broadcasting loud and clear from KCEP, “The People’s Station,” located in the heart of the Westside.
An early morning stabbing at a Las Vegas nightclub left three men injured with at least one in critical condition, police said.
While the riots in Los Angeles were far bigger and deadlier, the unrest in Las Vegas’ predominantly black community exposed festering problems and became a pivotal moment in police and community relations.
Riots after the Rodney King verdicts 25 years ago proved to be a watershed in the relationship between Las Vegas police and the city’s historically black community.
Federal prosecutors throughout the West have struggled recently to win conspiracy convictions against groups of loosely organized individual rights activists who identify with an anti-government movement that is best known for staging armed protests on federally managed land.
A man was arrested Monday on suspicion of holding a woman hostage in Las Vegas and beating her after she said she wouldn’t become a prostitute, arrest records show.
A man was arrested Thursday on suspicion of beating his girlfriend’s 2-year-old daughter, causing critical injuries, according to a Metropolitan Police Department arrest report.
Lois Bolden lives in the heart of the Historic Westside, near Martin Luther King Boulevard and Washington Avenue. The area was forced into existence because of segregation, a time in the mid-20th century when black men and women couldn’t visit the Strip or live anywhere near it.