The defendant, who wieleded a machete, was shot by a constable and appeared in court with his face bloody and bandaged.
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Terry Sylvanie was arrested Dec. 19, and Las Vegas police said he was on house arrest last week.
California Highway Patrol troopers arrested the 21-year-old one day after police say he shot and killed a man in the central valley. Now, he’s an inmate at the Clark County Detention Center.
Officers responded to the 5500 block of Camino Al Norte around 5 p.m. Thursday.
Nathan Chasing Horse is accused of sexually assaulting multiple alleged victims. He appeared in “Dances With Wolves” as Smiles a Lot.
ELKO — A 23-year-old man has been convicted of a lesser charge of involuntary manslaughter in the shooting death of an Elko woman last year.
Las Vegas police are seeking the public’s help in finding the person responsible for the stabbing death of a man in the 300 block of North 10th Street near U.S. Highway 95 early Saturday morning.
The former CEO of the short-lived Nevada Cancer Institute is scheduled to appear in federal court in Las Vegas on Monday on allegations that he planned to have sex with a 13-year-old girl inside at a Henderson hotel-casino in January.
Former Nevada political powerbroker Harvey Whittemore has been granted his request for a special hearing on his claim the government obtained some evidence against him without a warrant.
CARSON CITY — While state senators visited a medical marijuana dispensary in Arizona on Friday, the American Civil Liberties Union filed a brief in the Nevada Supreme Court saying state law provides “no practical way” for residents to acquire medical marijuana.
A Utah couple has been arrested and charged in connection with the shooting of a Mesquite police officer after a traffic stop at a major intersection in Mesquite on Thursday morning.
A 52-year-old man was arrested Friday morning for carrying nearly 300 pounds of cocaine inside a tractor-trailer he was driving north on Interstate 15 at Craig Road, police said.
A North Las Vegas man accused of robbing several elderly people at gunpoint was arrested Thursday, but police are still looking for a second suspect.
One person died in fatal rollover accident on U.S. Highway 95 near Durango Drive early Friday morning, according to the Nevada Highway Patrol.
Two people were injured in a late-night shooting Thursday near the intersection of Vegas Drive and Jones Boulevard, according to Las Vegas police.
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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.
Devyn Michaels was found guilty by a jury after a sensational trial in November. The victim was her on-and-off boyfriend.
