Las Vegas police are investigating the slaying of a male victim near Decatur Boulevard and Vegas Drive. Homicide Lt. Ray Steiber said Thursday night the victim had been fatally shot.
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Henderson Mayor Andy Hafen expressed remorse Thursday over what happened to Adam Greene, the man who was in diabetic shock when city police beat and kicked him during a traffic stop in October 2010.
FBI agents fanned out across the state Thursday serving grand jury subpoenas in a criminal investigation into allegations longtime political power broker Harvey Whittemore was involved in funneling illegal campaign contributions to federal races in Nevada, the Las Vegas Review-Journal has learned.
A 28-year-old motorcyclist who died Wednesday after crashing to avoid colliding with a sport utility vehicle in the southwest valley was identified by the Clark County coroner’s office Thursday as Osvaldo Cardenas-Amador. Cardenas-Amador was from Las Vegas, the coroner’s office said.
Former Henderson City Councilwoman Kathleen Vermillion has dropped the lawsuit she filed three weeks ago against Clark County and Commissioner Steve Sisolak.
Wynn Resorts Ltd. board member and largest stockholder Kazuo Okada will get his chance to examine normally confidential company documents, but his win comes with a large asterisk.
District Judge Donald Mosley, who has been presiding over Dr. Dipak Desai’s criminal case the past 18 months, is retiring on March 2, just 10 days before the scheduled trial.
Adam Greene doesn’t hate the Henderson police officers who broke his ribs and bruised his body after they mistook his common medical issue for drunken driving.
Federal authorities will wait and see how the Metropolitan Police Department responds to a review of its officer-involved shootings before deciding whether to open a civil rights investigation into the agency, two civil rights groups were told Tuesday.