Former Nevada prison warden Manuel Portillo is charged with attempted robbery and battery after allegedly biting a coworker’s ear at a Palace Station work event.
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Ali Moussaoui was riding his motorcycle near West Tropicana Avenue and Grand Canyon Drive on Thursday when Jalen Felton, 24, who police said had stolen a Salvation Army bus, fatally struck him.
School police said in his arrest report that Nicolas Jefferson, an Improve Your Tomorrow volunteer, used a fake online persona to promise an 18-year-old student modeling opportunities and money in exchange for sexually explicit photos and acts.
District Judge Jessica Peterson barred Review-Journal reporters from witnessing an alleged victim’s testimony during Nathan Chasing Horse’s sexual assault trial last week.
The former pro basketball star didn’t want to discuss his DUI arrest during an appearance at a Las Vegas restaurant. But he said he wants Vegas to get an NBA team.
A woman with a criminal history was arrested after a crash involving a stolen car left two children dead, police said.
An officer with the Metropolitan Police Department shot and killed a man in the southeast Las Vegas Valley.
Police said a 68-year-old woman’s body was discovered in a 55-plus mobile home park after neighbors requested a welfare check.
The woman also told police she was concerned that he’d try to stop her if she tried to leave, according to a Metropolitan Police Department arrest report.
Two kids were killed Friday in a crash caused by a speeding, red-light-running stolen vehicle, the second such deadly collision in Las Vegas in two days.
The Nevada attorney general’s office said anonymous racist messages that targeted Black Americans across the U.S. reached residents of the Silver State.
A 37-year-old man has been arrested in connection with the discovery of a woman’s body in a freezer, police said.
Freddie Wright was sentenced to life in prison with the possibility of parole for killing his wife and leaving her body in a burning metal drum.
A taxi’s dashcam helped police identify a suspect in the shooting death of a man whose body was found inside a crashed car last month.
The body was discovered during a welfare check near South Nellis Boulevard and Vegas Valley Drive, police said.
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The complaint, filed Tuesday in federal court in Las Vegas, claims a high priest ordained within the church had raped the girl when she was 10 until she was 15.
The former “Dances with Wolves” actor is accused of sexually assaulting multiple women. Two of them spoke to jurors.
One person was killed Wednesday night after a Salvation Army bus stolen in North Las Vegas triggered a police pursuit, then ran a red light in the west valley and collided with a motorcycle, police said.
Nathan Chasing Horse is accused of targeting the Native American community and sexually assaulting multiple women.
