People standing inside the police-taped parking lot across the street from the Parkside Villas Apartment Homes identified the hostage as their nephew.
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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 witness stated that she saw the wounded security guard after the shooting outside the market on North Decatur Boulevard involving suspected shoplifters.
Las Vegas police say a driver was arrested in a hit-and-run crash that left a pedestrian dead early Sunday morning near UNLV.
Police closed off a shopping center parking lot on the corner of West Washington Avenue and North Decatur Boulevard after a shooting left the victim in critical condition.
Police are investigating a shooting in northeast Las Vegas that left one man dead Friday evening, according to a release from the Metropolitan Police Department.
Nearly 250 people have been barred from stepping foot in and around tourist destinations in downtown Las Vegas since the city broadened its “order out corridor.”
The convicted man’s offenses came to the attention of law enforcement when the mother of one of his victims saw threats on the victim’s phone, according to the DOJ.
The two suspects robbed a victim at gunpoint early on July 4th on West Lake Mead Boulevard, according to a Metropolitan Police Department news release.
Las Vegas police officers twice administered Narcan and then attempted CPR on a man they had just taken into custody after he became unresponsive following being handcuffed.
A 17-year-old boy been arrested in connection with large-scale cyber hackings that targeted major companies including MGM Resorts International, authorities announced on Friday.
Pahrump Justice of the Peace and former Las Vegas City Councilwoman Michele Fiore appeared in federal court, following her indictment on wire fraud and conspiracy charges.
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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.
Vaughn Griffith, 15, was charged as an adult after prosecutors accused him of recording a group attack on a classmate and storing the video on Snapchat.
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.
