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.
New allegations of excessive force tied to a suspended Family Court marshal have surfaced in court documents obtained by the Las Vegas Review-Journal.
A motorcyclist was killed Thursday afternoon in the northwest valley. Las Vegas police said the motorcycle was struck by a car about 2 p.m. near Craig Road and Rainbow Boulevard.
Suspended Family Court Judge Steven Jones committed professional misconduct by maintaining a romantic relationship with a prosecutor who appeared before him, a state judicial panel has concluded.
A pedestrian was hit and killed by a vehicle in front of Sunrise Hospital and Medical Center Tuesday night, Las Vegas police said.
Nevada’s attorney general is warning Target shoppers to monitor their credit and debit card statements after some 40 million accounts may have been compromised.
A 25-year-old man charged with attacking Clark County jail guards with a baseball bat in September refused to leave his cell and attend a preliminary hearing in his case Tuesday.
Newly released 911 tapes paint a scene of panic and terror inside a Reno medical building where dozens of callers hid in restrooms and exam rooms from a suicidal gunman who killed one doctor and shot another at a urology clinic where he said he’d had a vasectomy that ruined his life.
A district judge on Tuesday eased jail restrictions for Richard Schlacta, a 48-year-old California man who authorities said plotted to kill a 13-year-old girl he’s accused of sexually assaulting. Schlacta will be allowed to have monitored contact with his girlfriend or family members.
A woman was found dead in her Illinois home and the man who owned the house will spend this holiday season locked up in the Clark County Detention Center.
Charges were dropped against two Clark County School District teachers accused of having sex with a 16-year-old student, but they and the district now face a federal civil lawsuit brought by the girl’s family.
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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.
