The lawsuit suggested that former Metropolitan Police Department Capt. John Pelletier helped to cover up a 2018 sexual assault and that he kidnapped witnesses.
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A Clark County Detention Center inmate who was found dead inside a cell with an imprisoned Discovery Channel reality show star has been identified.
A slaying on the Las Vegas Strip, a skydiving crash and a shooting at a local gym were among Harrison’s most memorable stories of the year.
Metro Lt. Robert Price said a man was shot and killed during an argument with an group of people who then fled the scene. Their whereabouts are currently unknown, Price said.
A son killed both his mother and father in the east Las Vegas Valley according to a release from the Metropolitan Police Department.
Lawyers gave some of the highest scores to the judges serving on the municipal and justice courts of North Las Vegas, Las Vegas and Henderson — and some of the lowest, too.
Lawyers who filled out the Review-Journal’s 2025 Judicial Performance Evaluation want two Clark County district judges to leave the bench but gave high marks to others.
District Judge Erika Ballou has been suspended from the bench, censured and removed from all criminal cases.
The Review-Journal partnered with Our Nevada Judges to publish data on how often a high court overturns a Clark County judge’s ruling.
Three professors were killed and one assistant professor was critically injured in the Dec. 6, 2023, shooting on UNLV’s campus.
This is the 151st traffic-related fatality in Metro’s jurisdiction in 2025.
The videos were released hours after the Las Vegas Review-Journal published a column disputing the department’s earlier refusals to share the recordings.
A Las Vegas man accused of killing his father told police that he had been killed by his father in a previous life, according to an arrest report.
The Review-Journal’s 2025 Judicial Performance Evaluation, which rates more than 100 Nevada judges ahead of next year’s elections, arrives this weekend.
The Henderson Police Department said this week it has begun a campaign targeting illegal electric motorcycle use ahead of the holiday season. Meanwhile, Clark County created a public service announcement with a pediatric doctor at UMC.
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A lawyer for Carrie Cox asked a judge to dismiss a felony charge against the Henderson councilwoman for allegedly recording another councilwoman’s private conversation due to insufficient evidence.
Assistant Sheriff Fred Haas showed body camera footage and photos during a news briefing about a Dec. 19 police shooting that left a man wounded.
Markeem Benson, 30, was pronounced dead at High Desert State Prison, authorities said.
Kenwonn Montgomery, 46, was charged with one count of open murder and two counts of assault with a deadly weapon.
