Antwone Washington was a coach and campus security officer before he was accused of having a sexual relationship with a student.
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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.
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.
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.
A man accused of child molestation was arrested Tuesday in Henderson after being profiled on “America’s Most Wanted.”
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The defendant, accused of wielding a machete, was shot by a constable and appeared in court with his face bloody and bandaged.
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.
