Thousands of records examined by the Las Vegas Review-Journal show a yearslong history of abuse and neglect allegations at Northwest Academy, a private boarding school for at-risk youth in Amargosa Valley. (Rio Lacanlale/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
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Six hours after the fact, Las Vegas homicide detectives worked to reconstruct the scene of a shooting early Jan. 7 that left one man dead in the southeast valley. (Rio Lacanlale/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
A rollover crash Saturday morning involving at least nine vehicles on southbound Interstate 15 near Primm caused an hourslong traffic delay. Traffic was backed up to Sloan, live traffic cameras show. (Rio Lacanlale/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
A dispute between roommates led to the fatal shooting of one man in the backyard of their southwest Las Vegas Valley home on Monday, April 23, 2018. (Rio Lacanlale/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
A historically white male-dominated profession, the gender gap remains a defining factor for law enforcement in the Las Vegas Valley. As of July 2017, Metro records show women accounted for roughly 12 percent of the department’s 3,706 commissioned officers, which include detectives, public information officers and corrections officers. This means, according to Metro’s most recent demographic reports, the department is made up of 3,242 male officers and just 464 women officers. Jasmen Jackson speaks. (Rio Lacanlale/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
Sheriff Joe Lombardo told reporters that officers had reasonable suspicion to stop NFL player Michael Bennett in August after a shooting was reported on the Strip. “They did what they were trained to do,” Lombardo said at an afternoon news conference. (Rio Lacanlale/Las Vegas Review-Journal)