A 7-year-old boy suffered a “significant injury” to his leg after a pitbull bit him Friday night, causing a neighbor to fatally shoot the dog to protect the child, according to Las Vegas police.
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A 33-year-old “influential gang member” who claimed to be an informant for authorities was indicted on murder charges for fatally shooting a man Jan. 14, Clark County prosecutors said Friday.
A 20-year prison sentence was imposed Friday for a Bullhead City, Ariz., man convicted of second-degree murder in the death of his 5-week-old son.
Following a four-day trial in federal court, a jury Friday convicted Deon Frederick Smith in the September 2011 armed robbery of a U.S. Bank branch on North Durango Road.
The castle where defense lawyers Oscar Goodman and Harry Claiborne were kings, which saw a string of mobsters pass through and was the site of the infamous Ted Binion murder trial, is half torn down.
A man Las Vegas police say pretended to be an officer and forced an escort to have sex with him now faces charges of assaulting her. Mark Picozzi, 48, of Las Vegas, was arrested Thursday.
A 79 year-old Northern Nevada Correctional Center inmate died Thursday, Nevada Department of Corrections officials said.
A woman was hospitalized early Friday morning after a standoff with police, Henderson officials say.
Two North Las Vegas brothers were arrested Thursday in connection with a spree of purse and wallet snatchings that began Dec. 30, according to Las Vegas police.
A woman struck and killed Monday near the Valley View Boulevard exit on U.S. Highway 95 in Las Vegas has been identified.
A man was arrested in the northwest valley Thursday night after an off-duty Las Vegas police officer heard a gunshot in a Chuck E. Cheese’s parking lot.
The Nevada attorney general’s office has been sanctioned by a judge and could be forced to pay as much as $1 million in legal costs incurred by a company it accuses of fraud.
Las Vegas police asked the public for help Thursday in finding a man involved in two bank robberies in January.
Judicial candidate Ross Smillie should go before a judge and explain why he should be able to run for office, according to a petition filed by Clark County District Attorney Steve Wolfson.
Roads around Nellis Air Force Base are expected to reopen soon after police took into custody a man who had barricaded himself in a hospital parking lot.