The Metropolitan Police Department has had 15 shootings involving officers this year, 10 of which were fatal, making the department one shooting shy of last year’s total.
Courts
A 30-year-old woman was sentenced to six to 15 years in prison Tuesday for a hit-and-run crash that killed a man while he was pushing his granddaughter in a stroller.
The battle over maintaining life support for a 20-year-old Las Vegas woman continues this week in Reno. It focuses on the question of when is a person considered dead.
A Henderson man was sentenced in a California federal court Thursday to more than 12 years in prison for running a Ponzi scheme and lying to the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Jurors are expected to hear closing arguments Monday in the death penalty trial of Ammar Harris, a felon charged in a shooting that led to a fiery crash that left three dead on the Strip.
The Clark County coroner’s office Thursday identified a 10-year-old boy killed the day before in Logandale in ATV crash.
Two North Las Vegas SWAT officers were wounded and a man was fatally shot during a police standoff Tuesday night.
A civil racketeering lawsuit claims two Las Vegas doctors have conspired to defraud insurance companies by inflating medical bills for hundreds of patients involved in automobile accidents.
An adult body was found inside an underground vault that houses water meters Tuesday in the 4800 block of Boulder Highway, according to Las Vegas police.
A Las Vegas man who was ordered released from jail Monday after being held more than six years without a conviction remains behind bars because of an outstanding traffic warrant.
Las Vegas police have named a suspect in a fatal stabbing that happened in August outside a central valley Mediterranean restaurant.
A 16-year-old girl critically injured after falling from a moving vehicle in the parking lot of Durango High School in August has died, according to Las Vegas police.
Las Vegas police are investigating a shooting that left a man dead in central Las Vegas early Tuesday morning.
A 29-year-old teacher’s aide at a middle school has been arrested in connection with a lewdness investigation involving a student, according to North Las Vegas police.
A man’s body was found by a construction worker near a central valley cemetery early Wednesday morning, Las Vegas police said.