The constable, Mark Ruesch, shot Victor Vondrasek after Vondrasek attacked maintenance worker Orlando Sosa with a large knife, police have said.
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Devyn Michaels was found guilty by a jury after a sensational trial in November. The victim was her on-and-off boyfriend.
A suspect has been arrested in connection with a sexual assault that occurred within Las Vegas, and police are seeking possible additional victims.
Police have said Tyler Johns and the victim’s stepfather were arguing before the shooting that claimed the child’s life.
A man was arrested in Oregon in connection with a shooting in the southwest Las Vegas Valley, in which a man and woman were shot at by a vehicle that was chasing them.
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.
Mortgage lenders who try to foreclose on distressed Nevada homeowners received a message Tuesday when the Nevada Supreme Court heard a trio of appeals related to its Foreclosure Mediation Program: Follow the rules or suffer the consequences. A majority of justices expressed growing frustration and even anger with lenders who don’t participate in good faith.
A 33-year-old woman pleaded guilty Tuesday to one count of first-degree arson for setting a New Year’s Day fire that displaced 40 people and did an estimated $200,000 in damage to an apartment complex.
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Devyn Michaels was found guilty by a jury after a sensational trial in November. The victim was her on-and-off boyfriend.
The unveiling served as a latest step for the Metropolitan Police Department as it continues to beef up its unmanned aerial vehicle policing operations.
The Henderson Police Department on Wednesday identified a man who was shot by two officers and who is accused of ramming into their police SUVs with a stolen construction vehicle.
Tavari Pearson, who previously received an eight-to-20-year suspended sentence, has been indicted in a car theft case.
