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A year after police shot and killed Erik Scott in front of a Summerlin Costco, about two dozen people gathered there at sunset to light candles in his memory and reflect on how his death helped spur reforms in the way local police-related deaths are reviewed.
A Las Vegas man is waiting for the FBI to respond to his claim of a $2 million reward for his tip that he says led to the capture of mafia boss James “Whitey” Bulger.
Problems handling DNA evidence at the Metropolitan Police Department’s crime lab have not been limited to two cases in 2001 that garnered headlines this week.
Just how many lawyers the county can legally purge from a prosecutors union in a salary-slashing move was hotly debated in court Friday.
A man who shot seven people at a murder victim’s funeral service Wednesday night was trying to kill a witness to the slaying, a police source said Thursday.
Amber Scott said Thursday that she made the “poorest decision ever” not leaving her boyfriend before he killed her 4-year-old son in 2007 and staged a car accident to cover up the death.
Las Vegas police officials have identified the two officers who shot and killed a man while investigating a domestic disturbance Monday night.
On Jan. 28, 2008, Howard Dupree Grissom walked into High Desert State Prison, just north of Las Vegas, after being convicted of robbery and conspiracy to commit a violent crime.