North Las Vegas police shot and killed a man who reportedly raised a firearm towards several officers on Saturday night, according to authorities.
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A male was injured in an apparent shooting in Henderson on Friday night.
Operation Summer Shield 2024, a multi-jurisdictional sex offender verification operation, took place June 3-7, according to the Metropolitan Police Department.
Las Vegas police say the suspects admit they were at the scene of the crime in the southeast valley, but they deny killing a man and a woman found dead there.
Bump stocks, which allow semi-automatic weapons to fire like machine guns, were used in mass shootings like the one that killed 60 people in Las Vegas.
UNLV’s chapter of a fraternity that sponsored a charity boxing match after which Nathan Valencia died was suspended Wednesday, according to a statement from the university.
Robert and Tracy Eglet, partners at the Eglet Adams law firm, have donated $25 million to University of the Pacific’s law school in Sacramento.
Lawrence Artl III, 37, was booked on felony counts of a school employee engaging in sexual conduct with a pupil 16 or older and attempting to prevent a witness from testifying.
Nevada’s two public universities experienced spikes in reports of sexual, domestic and dating violence incidents from 2017 to 2018, according to a report to be presented this week to the Board of Regents.
Dr. Deborah Kuhls, who’s serving on a panel at UNLV on Friday to discuss her experiences from the night of Oct. 1, 2017, has been a trauma surgeon at UMC for more than 18 years.
Law enforcement and emergency responders from throughout the Las Vegas Valley participated in an “active shooter” drill Wednesday at Shadow Ridge High School to ensure they are prepared for a worst-case scenario.
The students — a male and a female, both 17 — were taken into custody at Palo Verde High School in Las Vegas and Desert Rose High School in North Las Vegas. Police say neither of the students had made threats.
Police said the student called one of the district offices and made the threat, after which police were able to track him down and arrest him without incident Wednesday evening in a public place.
The school district, which hasn’t had a fatal shooting on campus since 1990, uses layers of armed officers, surveillance cameras and student and staff training to help keep its 358 district campuses safe.
The words “Vegas Strong” are possibly the most meaningful on the arm sling worn by Karessa Royce, a survivor of the Oct. 1 shooting on the Route 91 Harvest festival on the Strip.
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A fatal shooting at a Walmart parking lot is being investigated as a possible case of self-defense, according to the Henderson Police Department.
A suspect accused in a hit-and-run crash that killed a pedestrian told investigators that she had struck construction equipment, according to her arrest report.
The bodies were discovered June 5 in the 4900 block of South Droubay Drive, near Tropicana Avenue.
Henderson police and fire crews responded to reports of a shooting at about 1:30 p.m. in the 500 block of Marks Street.
