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.
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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.
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.
An electrical fire caused $160,000 in damage to a two-story condominium in the area of Bluebonnet Drive and Bluegrass Lane in Henderson on Saturday morning, displacing seven pets and 10 adults, fire officials said.
Firefighters battled a three-alarm blaze early Saturday morning that caused considerable damage to an office building on West Sahara Avenue just east of South Cimarron Road.
Embattled Las Vegas Township Constable John Bonaventura is trying to head off elimination of his office by filing a temporary restraining order against Clark County commissioners, saying the move is unconstitutional.
An SUV carrying six people, apparently involved in a hit-and-run moments earlier, crashed into a pillar outside of the Springs Preserve on Valley View Boulevard on Saturday, injuring four children critically, Las Vegas police said.
A motorcyclist is in critical condition after he reportedly crossed a funeral procession at Lake Mead Boulevard and H Street on Saturday afternoon and hit a vehicle, Las Vegas police said.
Defense lawyers, alleging prosecutorial misconduct by the Clark County district attorney’s office, tried Friday to torpedo the 2008 assault case against members of the Hells Angels.
The sign may read “For Sale” outside the sprawling southeast Las Vegas estate that Wayne Newton dubbed “Casa de Shenandoah.”
The lenders who assumed the inside track to buy 480 acres of federal land once targeted for an arena in Henderson cleared their first hurdle Friday when they paid the city $250,000 for the legal fees associated with its land fraud lawsuit against developer Chris Milam.
How is this for a scary movie: a committee of attorneys designing a courtroom for what could be a marathon trial.
A disgraced Clark County School District teacher who was fired several years ago but recently won his job back in arbitration was sent home from Bonanza High School Friday after officials learned he faces felony drug trafficking charges.
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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.
