Antwone Washington was a coach and campus security officer before he was accused of having a sexual relationship with a student.
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A 25-page complaint alleges the City of North Las Vegas, its police department and jail employees or contractors failed to protect the inmate from the known risk of exposure to fentanyl.
Edgar Flores, D-Las Vegas, was arrested on suspicion of DUI after he was found asleep at a traffic light on North Lamb and East Lake Mead boulevards at 4 a.m. on Sept. 12, according to police.
The defendant, accused of wielding a machete, was shot by a constable and appeared in court with his face bloody and bandaged.
Terry Sylvanie was arrested Dec. 19, and Las Vegas police said he was on house arrest last week.
As seven of the eight churchgoers struck Thursday night by an 18-year-old driver were released from the hospital, North Las Vegas police attention shifted to the whereabouts of the driver’s 1-year-old son.
A 7-year-old girl escaped serious injuries after a U.S. Postal Service truck backed into her as she was walking across the entrance to an apartment complex Thursday, according to her family and a Postal Service spokesman.
When a man is in jail, again, facing drug charges, again, he will agree to almost anything to get out. This is what Thomas Carney did a year and a half ago. He signed some forms and agreed to something and he walked out of jail.
A man was arrested on the Strip after Las Vegas police suspected him of stabbing four people at random Thursday night.
A corrections officer making the 2.9 mile drive from the Clark County Detention Center to the city jail with a van full of 10 inmates was shocked Thursday to find a female inmate and a male inmate having a sexual encounter.
The district attorney’s office is not fighting an arbitrator’s decision to give a veteran prosecutor under federal scrutiny her job back. Former Chief Deputy District Attorney Victoria Villegas is to report for assignment Sept. 3.
The beating of a 76-year-old man with his walking cane led to the arrest of a woman in Pahrump.
Nevada’s chief justice ordered a statewide review to determine whether courts are reporting names of mentally ill people to a gun ownership blacklist, and the state attorney general said Thursday her office will reach out to courts to ensure compliance with the reporting laws as a matter of public safety.
A second suspect has been arrested in the Jan. 26 parking lot shooting that injured one man in Henderson.
Tribal members and environmentalists filed a federal lawsuit Thursday to force NV Energy to clean up the site of a coal-fired power plant the utility plans to shut down by 2017.
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The defendant, accused of wielding a machete, was shot by a constable and appeared in court with his face bloody and bandaged.
The Metropolitan Police Department provided more details about a pair of January police shootings.
Las Vegas police are asking for the public’s help in identifying a man accused of burglarizing a home in Summerlin in December.
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.
