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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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.
Law enforcement agencies executed a search warrant in the east Las Vegas Valley on Saturday. Federal court records argue individuals linked to the home had a history of violating FDA regulations.
Diaja Smith and Jacoby Robinson were indicted on charges of murder and child abuse after the body of their 2-year-old son was found in a dumpster last month.
New details reveal that a man charged at a Nevada State Parks ranger with a knife before being shot at Valley of Fire State Park last week.
Anthony Lewis Hamelin was accused of leaving a threatening voicemail in June 2023 threatening to kill a relative of a then member of the U.S. House of Representatives.
Prosecutors allege that the judge and former Las Vegas City Council member spent money meant for a fallen officers memorial on herself and her daughter’s wedding.
North Las Vegas police are asking for the public’s help in identifying a suspect in a road-rage shooting that left a teenager seriously injured.
Some mass shooting experts see parallels between the Oct. 1, 2017, mass shooting in Las Vegas and the assassination attempt on Donald Trump.
A man was stabbed to death at a Las Vegas 7-Eleven, according to the Metropolitan Police Department.
Investigators are still trying to piece together how Thomas Matthew Crooks eluded Secret Service agents and local police.
A police report reveals details in an apartment in which three people were shot to death last month, part of violence that killed five and critically injured a 13-year-old.
An attorney for one of two teens accused of killing a retired police chief in a hit-and-run attempted to get the elder abuse component of the murder charge against his client thrown out.
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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.
