Former Nevada Assemblyman Wendell Williams, who sought to ban the use of chokeholds by police more than 25 years ago, is calling for a public reexamination of the Metropolitan Police Department’s neck restraint policy after a man died while in custody last week.
The officer was chasing after a person about 6:20 p.m. on the 1100 block of East Evans Avenue when he was bitten, Metropolitan Police Department Lt. C.J. Jenkins said.
One person was injured and at least 10 people were displaced Wednesday after an apartment building fire near Stewart Avenue and 13th Street in downtown Las Vegas.
Las Vegas police took a man into custody after he forced his wife and son into a car at gunpoint Wednesday afternoon.
A man is wanted after attempting to steal a car but fled because he appeared to not be able to drive a manual transmission, police said.
A North Las Vegas man was sentenced Wednesday to life in prison without the possibility of parole for his role in a February 2012 murder.
A judge set bail at $2.5 million on Wednesday for Ross Strauss, 64, who faces a murder charge in the death of his special-needs son.
People who work in Nevada’s public schools are supposed to have clean records. They’re fingerprinted and screened at the local, state and national levels for criminal histories — but the process is far from foolproof.
A woman in her 20s was hospitalized, but expected to survive after being shot by an ex-boyfriend Tuesday night.
A man shot in the head in central Las Vegas earlier this month has died, Las Vegas police said.
