People standing inside the police-taped parking lot across the street from the Parkside Villas Apartment Homes identified the hostage as their nephew.
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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.
Erick Tom Watkins, 48, was shot at by two Bullhead City police officers outside an apartment building, the Mohave County Sheriff’s Office said.
Documents are detailing the moments that led to a Pahrump man’s arrest as well as why seven tigers were seized from his property, authorities said.
Rickey Tasley, 43, of Las Vegas, was arrested by Metro officers after he allegedly stabbed three loss prevention employees with a “large knife”on March 25, police said.
Before walking into the Aliante the morning a man was fatally shot on the casino floor, Aerion Warmsley and a still unidentified man that he was with were stopped by security for loitering, police said.
The family of a man who was fatally shot inside a Las Vegas Strip hotel-casino after inviting two women up to his room has sued the property for negligence and wrongful death.
Anyone with information is urged to call Metro’s Commercial Robbery Section at 702-828-3591.
On top of charges in North Las Vegas, Aerion Warmsley faces second-degree kidnapping, coercion constituting domestic violence, and domestic battery in Las Vegas.
Michael Tomasino, 38, faces one charge of making threats or conveying false information related to an act of terrorism, according to court records.
Joel Vargas-Escobar was arrested for his alleged role in a “conspiracy responsible for 11 murders,” the Department of Justice said.
A special education teacher is suing CCSD for she said was a failure to protect her when a student “violently” punched her in the stomach on multiple occasions while she was pregnant.
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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.
Vaughn Griffith, 15, was charged as an adult after prosecutors accused him of recording a group attack on a classmate and storing the video on Snapchat.
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.
