The Metropolitan Police Department is investigating an officer-involved shooting in the south valley.
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Six Republican defendants are accused of plotting to give Donald Trump Nevada’s electoral votes in 2020, even though Joe Biden won the state.
Vaughn Griffith, a former Alexander Dawson School student, faces one felony charge in connection with an April 2025 attack involving classmates, records show.
Law enforcement leaders said they arrested one man in connection with an alleged illegal biological laboratory in the east Las Vegas Valley.
The teen’s attorney said he was agreeing to a three- to 15-year prison sentence. The victim’s family called that range unfair.
A Nevada Highway Patrol trooper noted he was “overwhelmed” by the smell of marijuana when he pulled the player over in November 2023.
Travis Doss was arrested in July 2023 with his wife, after police found two children inside their apartment locked in a dog kennel.
A judge set bail at $500,000 for a man accused of shooting and seriously wounding a west Las Vegas supermarket security guard, who later died.
Two of the three inmates who were killed at Ely State Prison were identified by the White Pine County Sheriff’s Office.
The 52-year-old Quebec man pleaded guilty Monday in federal court in Las Vegas.
Three inmates were killed and several others injured in a fight that broke out at Ely State Prison, according to the Nevada Department of Corrections.
A second suspect has been arrested in connection with the west Las Vegas supermarket shooting that wounded a security guard, but his charges are less severe than his alleged accomplice.
Major Sanford pleaded guilty to killing his roommate in November, and then shooting toward the Las Vegas Academy of the Arts theater building.
Erick Rangel-Ibarra was taken into custody by authorities in Mexico, police said.
Police say they have exhausted leads in a search for suspects in the death of a bulldog that was found taped inside a container.
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Law enforcement leaders said they arrested one man in connection with an alleged illegal biological laboratory in the east Las Vegas Valley.
A man was shot and killed Sunday morning at a North Las Vegas business.
A jury on Friday convicted “Dances with Wolves” actor Nathan Chasing Horse in a sexual assault trial in which he was accused of targeting fellow Native Americans.
Police are investigating the deaths of two people found inside a residence Wednesday morning in the southwest Las Vegas Valley.
