After the Metropolitan Police Department raided Kim Layson’s home in search of somebody who lived there before she bought the house, police agreed to cover the cost of the damages.
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A Las Vegas woman who was working as a dancer at a strip club when she met an Arkansas businessman has filed a motion to dismiss after he sued her.
A YouTuber says Burning Man, state and federal officials violated the right to free speech by blocking him and his daughter from filming the festival cleanup in 2024.
Just before the suspected DUI crash that killed her unborn baby, Rebekah Dauz and her relatives marveled at his heartbeat.
A woman filed a lawsuit after she alleged she was assaulted and groped while working in a suite at Allegiant Stadium during a UNLV football game.
The victim had not been identified by the Clark County coroner’s office as of Monday afternoon.
A 25-year-old man charged in a Lake Las Vegas fatal shooting told police that the victim had raped him, according to a Henderson Police Department arrest report released Monday.
The Metropolitan Police Department arrested over a dozen people on the Saturday following Thanksgiving.
The identities of the officers involved in a deadly shooting Saturday morning have been released.
Mark Arreola, 41, who police say drove 91 mph in a 35 mph zone, faces a reckless driving charge.
The killing happened in the 3800 block of East Charleston Boulevard, Metro said.
It’s the seventh police shooting in Metro’s jurisdiction of 2023, police said.
The alleged victim said that over two days, the man beat her, “set her hair on fire,” sexually assaulted her and “used his cell phone to record her,” according to police.
Robert Hoy, who was fatally shot Tuesday afternoon, was a computer system engineer that had done contract work with the CIA, according to his wife.
Police said the suspect was taken into custody around 2 p.m. after a domestic violence barricade situation in the 3900 block of Cambridge Street near East Katie Avenue.
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In a final police report, authorities said they had no evidence Joe Houston told anyone he planned to shoot and kill his former daughter-in-law and her new husband.
His father previously admitted that he helped his son move Lesly Palacio’s body. Authorities have said both men then fled to Mexico.
The Metropolitan Police Department held a briefing Wednesday about “the current and future use” of drones to fight crime in the Las Vegas Valley.
The case became a rallying cry for animal rights advocates and led to a new Nevada animal cruelty law.
