Richard A. Bartlett, 35, was arrested Dec. 16 on allegations he kidnapped his girlfriend and kept her captive in a vehicle overnight, police said.
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Highlights include a trial over the murder of Tupac Shakur, District Court elections and high-profile traffic fatality cases.
It was a busy news year for the Las Vegas Review-Journal. With the growth the Las Vegas Valley is experiencing, it’s not expected that 2026 will be any different.
Joshua Johnson, 31, was booked into the Clark County Detention Center on Friday.
Police targeting impaired driving in Nevada made thousands of traffic stops and more than one hundred arrests statewide on Dec. 31, local and state law enforcement said.
A 17-year-old accused of DUI in a wrong-way Las Vegas crash that killed a 10-year-old boy will be tried as an adult after a judge’s ruling Tuesday.
Parents of an armed Black Lives Matter protester shot to death by police testified Monday that the loss of their son has left a void.
Israeli cyber official Tom Alexandrovich pleads not guilty to U.S. child sting charges; defense seeks federal evidence before March trial begins.
A woman accused of fatally shooting her model friend during a photo shoot was “disgusted” that the victim had been calling her his girlfriend, a witness to the killing told a grand jury.
Officers responded early Sunday morning to the intersection of Cheyenne Avenue and North Fifth Street, where they found a man suffering from critical injuries, according to police
Officers in North Las Vegas were dispatched to a shooting call Friday night in the 4500 block of Anspach Street.
Henderson Police Department officers were called to an area just southeast of Boulder Highway at about 9:30 a.m. on Friday, according to the spokesperson.
The Mafia’s presence in Las Vegas, and other large American cities have been long documented and romanticized, and seeing its resurgence in 2025 shouldn’t be surprising, according to an expert.
A North Las Vegas man suspected in multiple shootings around the valley shot at the window of a Strip hotel room in September, according to a police report.
A second man charged in a federal probe into rigged poker and sports betting schemes involving former NBA players and members of Mafia families has ties to Las Vegas, according to court records.
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Edward Dias is accused of fleeing the scene after hitting a woman who was walking in the roadway.
Adrian Bailey, 27, is being held without bail and faces two murder charges. Police said he admitted to killing his parents.
A 41-year-old man is in custody after police say he stabbed his grandmother to death at a central Las Vegas Valley residence.
The lawsuit suggested that former Metropolitan Police Department Capt. John Pelletier helped to cover up a 2018 sexual assault and that he kidnapped witnesses.
