The Metropolitan Police Department is investigating an officer-involved shooting in the south valley.
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Six Republican defendants are accused of plotting to give Donald Trump Nevada’s electoral votes in 2020, even though Joe Biden won the state.
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.
Police are investigating after a dog was found dead in a crate near a dumpster Friday morning in the east Las Vegas Valley.
Prosecutors argued that the guard “abused her authority” while trying to diffuse a physical altercation outside a northwest valley convenience store that left a 56-year-old man dead.
She was so young that she could not be certified for prosecution as an adult, according to attorneys.
Rita Colon, who was arrested in Peru in 2017, still faces a murder charge in a second killing.
One of the suspects in a fatal shooting at a park in Pahrump appeared in a Las Vegas courtroom Thursday and is expected to be extradited to Nye County.
A 17-year-old male suspect was arrested in connection with a shooting in North Las Vegas, according to the North Las Vegas Police Department.
Police say one person is dead following a shooting Wednesday night in Las Vegas.
A Pahrump judge ordered an 18-year-old man held without bail Wednesday in connection with a fatal shooting at Ian Deutch Memorial Park.
Jesus Ayala, 19, Roland Gabaldon, 29, and Mauricio Quinteros, 19, all pleaded not guilty in the battery case and waived their right to a speedy trial.
After Ronald Mortensen’s 1997 murder conviction was reversed by a federal judge, he pleaded guilty to lesser charges last week.
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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.
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.
Police are investigating the deaths of two people found inside a residence Wednesday morning in the southwest Las Vegas Valley.
