Authorities in New Mexico issued an arrest warrant Friday for director and Emmy Award-winning actor Timothy Busfield to face a child sex abuse charge.
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Police said the arrest came after an investigation at an elementary school in the northeast valley.
The Metropolitan Police Department provided more details about a pair of January police shootings.
Between that case and another filed early December, 46-year-old Christopher Cohen now faces a total of 13 charges.
Las Vegas police are asking for the public’s help in identifying a man accused of burglarizing a home in Summerlin in December.
Several Las Vegas crime categories saw numbers creep upward in 2012 after seeing huge drops in 2011, according to the latest statistics from the FBI. But 2012’s numbers were still low compared to the last five years of crime data in Las Vegas.
A Las Vegas councilman says residents in high crime areas of the city are paying the price for the Clark County Commission’s dawdling over a tax increase to hire police officers.
Joshua Chinn was arrested last week and charged with murder in connection with his infant daughter’s death, according to North Las Vegas police. The baby died on March 14, according to the child death report filed with the state by the Clark County Department of Family Services.
To hear Ammar Harris tell it, he didn’t choose to be a pimp. The women chose him.
A man and a woman were arrested Tuesday in Goldfield after explosive devices were found in a car parked outside the county courthouse, about 27 miles south of Tonopah.
The Nevada District Attorney’s office is charging a woman with arson and child abuse after her son caught on fire while in her care.
A 27-year-old man was sentenced to 10 to 30 years in prison for shooting a police officer with a shotgun in March 2012.
The 5-month-old girl who was taken by her father from Yuma, Ariz., was located safe in Utah around 2:45 p.m. Wednesday, according to the Yuma Police Department.
Las Vegas police are asking for the public’s help in finding the people responsible for a gang-related drive-by shooting that injured three adults and an 11-year-old child.
Allstate Insurance Company has won a $7 million judgment against a chiropractor and his businesses in a federal racketeering lawsuit that alleged the chiropractor conspired to submit inflated claims for patients injured in auto accidents.
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The Metropolitan Police Department provided more details about a pair of January police shootings.
Police said T’Shawn Allen, 27, stole hundreds of dollars from businesses such as Pink Box Donuts, Buffalo Wild Wings, and Pretty Soul Kitchen and caused potentially thousands in damages over a two-day theft spree.
Devyn Michaels was found guilty by a jury after a sensational trial in November. The victim was her on-and-off boyfriend.
Police have said Tyler Johns and the victim’s stepfather were arguing before the shooting that claimed the child’s life.
