Police targeting impaired driving in Nevada made thousands of traffic stops and more than one hundred arrests statewide on Dec. 31, local and state law enforcement said.
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Edward Dias is accused of fleeing the scene after hitting a woman who was walking in the roadway.
Sarah Davi and her husband, the Rev. Nick Davi, were shot by their neighbor in December 2023.
A woman was killed in a hit-and-run crash after she was struck by two vehicles on New Year’s Day, according to police.
A woman was detained after a report of a shooting at a Henderson home on Thursday night, according to police.
A District Court hearing to install a receiver at the World Market Center’s Building A was called off as unnecessary.
Dr. Dipak Desai, the bankrupt gastroenterologist at the heart of the hepatitis C outbreak, has piled up $2.4 million in legal fees that are cutting deep into the dwindling assets left for his creditors, including the thousands of former patients suing him.
A Henderson police lieutenant arrested in a prostitution sting last year has apparently been demoted after pleading guilty in the case.
Lionel Collins III, 21, was sentenced Wednesday to 18 years to life in prison for the 2009 Thanksgiving Day slaying of McClain Kenton Zornes, 19, outside a northwest valley CVS Pharmacy.
The grass-roots community organizing group ACORN on Wednesday entered a guilty plea to one count of felony compensation for registration of voters. The organization, which is in Chapter 7 bankruptcy, faces a maximum $5,000 fine.
Wearing his late nephew’s high school varsity jacket, Ron Portaro stood Wednesday night in a parking lot on North Tenaya Way where the 22-year-old was gunned down and where police planned to conduct voluntary traffic checkpoints in a search for witnesses.
Las Vegas police officers involved in Sunday’s fatal officer-involved shooting were identified Wednesday.
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Edward Dias is accused of fleeing the scene after hitting a woman who was walking in the roadway.
Adrian Bailey, 27, is being held without bail and faces two murder charges. Police said he admitted to killing his parents.
A 41-year-old man is in custody after police say he stabbed his grandmother to death at a central Las Vegas Valley residence.
The lawsuit suggested that former Metropolitan Police Department Capt. John Pelletier helped to cover up a 2018 sexual assault and that he kidnapped witnesses.
