The officer who shot a suspect in an early Saturday string of convenience-store robberies knew the man to be armed and “very violent,” North Las Vegas police said on Friday afternoon. Police on Friday were still looking for two additional people in the case.
Nevada’s public schools ratings were released Friday, along with detailed data on student performance, discipline and staffing for the 2013-14 school year that’s used by the Nevada Department of Education to assign one to five stars to 633 campuses.
A teen was wounded in a northwest valley shooting Friday evening, Las Vegas police said. The girl, 17, was shot in the left knee as she was walking up steps.
A 16-year-old boy was arrested at Mohave High School Thursday afternoon in connection with a Sept. 5 shooting that left a woman dead.
Two Las Vegas residents claim North Las Vegas police violated their civil rights in September 2013 by fatally shooting their dogs.
A Bullhead City, Ariz., man arrested in the strangulation death of his friend’s young daughter was formally indicted Thursday by a Mohave County grand jury convened in Kingman.
The four children of an instructor who was killed at a northwestern Arizona shooting range used a 2½-minute video posted Friday to reach out to the 9-year-old girl who accidentally shot him.
Traffic in the area of Main Street and Foremaster Lane was shut down for at least two hours Friday afternoon following a vehicle-versus-bicycle accident near the intersection.
A 19-year-old man was indicted by a Clark County grand jury Friday in connection with the fatal shooting of his friend last year.
A recall drive has been launched against all five Ely City Council members amid controversy over their handling of a financial audit of the Nevada Northern Railway tourist attraction.
