People standing inside the police-taped parking lot across the street from the Parkside Villas Apartment Homes identified the hostage as their nephew.
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Vaughn Griffith, a former Alexander Dawson School student, faces one felony charge in connection with an April 2025 attack involving classmates, records show.
Law enforcement leaders said they arrested one man in connection with an alleged illegal biological laboratory in the east Las Vegas Valley.
The teen’s attorney said he was agreeing to a three- to 15-year prison sentence. The victim’s family called that range unfair.
Law enforcement agencies executed a search warrant in the east Las Vegas Valley on Saturday. Federal court records argue individuals linked to the home had a history of violating FDA regulations.
ELY — A judge has sentenced two brothers from Washington state to prison for shooting at a sheriff’s sergeant while trying to avoid arrest in White Pine County.
A 300-pound petroglyph was illegally snatched from its original resting place in the Spring Mountains National Recreation Area in 2008. After a long journey, it has returned home.
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Law enforcement leaders said they arrested one man in connection with an alleged illegal biological laboratory in the east Las Vegas Valley.
A man was shot and killed Sunday morning at a North Las Vegas business.
Vaughn Griffith, 15, was charged as an adult after prosecutors accused him of recording a group attack on a classmate and storing the video on Snapchat.
A jury on Friday convicted “Dances with Wolves” actor Nathan Chasing Horse in a sexual assault trial in which he was accused of targeting fellow Native Americans.
