The Nevada Department of Corrections said Robert Siow, 62, died at the Northern Nevada Correctional Center on Dec. 18.
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Joredyn Hubbard, 19, was identified as a suspect by homicide detectives in a Nov. 8 fatal shooting, according to police.
Anyone who may have information about this incident is urged to contact the North Las Vegas Police Department at 702-633-9111.
Police arrived to a bloody house with two dead parents inside after the son called law enforcement and asked to be arrested, according to his arrest report.
The cause of death for Markeem Benson, 30, was hanging, according to a spokesperson for the office.
A former Henderson loan officer pleaded guilty in federal court this week in a $1 million, high-yield investment scheme involving the foreign currency exchange market.
Former Hollywood madam Heidi Fleiss, 47, avoided a night in jail but will face charges including possession of a controlled substance with intent to sell after 392 marijuana plants were found on her property.
A well-attended birthday party turned deadly shortly before midnight Saturday night. As police investigate the events that led up to the shooting of Jaylin Lewis, 17, the grandmother of the 16-year-old birthday girl, who asked not to be identified, just wants to forget.
A Las Vegas woman who operated an unlicensed group home was sentenced Tuesday to probation, fined $25,000, and ordered to perform community service.
The man shot and killed on J Street Sunday night has been identified as Stacey Renod Randolph by the Clark County coroner’s office.
A tour bus driver from Las Vegas has been cited for trying to cross a wash flooded by a severe thunderstorm in northwest Arizona, according to the Mohave County Sheriff.
Las Vegas police have located an elderly woman that went missing Monday morning.
Las Vegas police are investigating a dead body found in a trash bin near Nellis Boulevard and Owens Avenue.
An off-duty Las Vegas police detective is on paid administrative leave after he shot a man outside Excalibur hotel-casino on the Strip.
Attorney General Eric Holder announced a major shift Monday in federal sentencing policies, targeting long mandatory terms that he said have flooded the nation’s prisons with low-level drug offenders and diverted crime-fighting dollars that could be far better spent.
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A Clark County Detention Center inmate who was found dead inside a cell with an imprisoned Discovery Channel reality show star has been identified.
Metro Lt. Robert Price said a man was shot and killed during an argument with an group of people who then fled the scene. Their whereabouts are currently unknown, Price said.
A son killed both his mother and father in the east Las Vegas Valley according to a release from the Metropolitan Police Department.
An imprisoned Discovery Channel reality show star faces a murder charge after his cellmate was found dead following a fight at the Clark County Detention Center on Friday, police said.
