For a second consecutive day, a peaceful Las Vegas demonstration to protest the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis police custody turned confrontational and chaotic.
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A long-haul truck driver from Las Vegas documented his life on the road for more than three months as he transported essential goods during the coronavirus pandemic.
Nevada law enforcement leaders on Thursday distanced their agencies from the actions of a Minneapolis police officer involved in the death of an unarmed black man.
The award from Nevada Women’s Philanthropy comes at a time when calls to SafeNest’s 24-hour domestic violence hotline have skyrocketed amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
“The reality is that there are people that are going to try and take advantage of the crisis,” said Aaron Rouse, special agent in charge of the Las Vegas field office.
“The main resource we really need right now is the human kind — volunteers,” said Daniele Staple, executive director of the Rape Crisis Center.
During the first week of Nevada’s initial emergence from the coronavirus-triggered shutdown, the state’s largest charity devoted to ending domestic violence experienced an explosion of calls to its hotline.
Authorities suspect that John Dabritz committed crimes involving an explosive device in Nye County just prior to the fatal shooting of a Nevada Highway Patrol sergeant.
A motive in the March 27 shooting of a Nevada Highway Patrol trooper was revealed for the first time in public court documents obtained Thursday by the Las Vegas Review-Journal.
“Our numbers have gone up really quickly in a short amount of time, which means that the virus is moving,” said Dawna Brown, director of Pyramid Lake Tribal Health Clinic.