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.
Both are accused of striking each other during a Dec. 23 altercation at the Clark County Detention Center. Both also face murder charges.
The suspect, according to the San Bernardino County Sheriff-Coroner Department, was later identified as 35-year-old Antonio Chaidez.
His formal charges, court records show, include one count of open murder, five counts of burglary while in possession of a firearm or deadly weapon, and three counts of battery with intent to commit a crime.
Dylon Carden, an officer with the Metropolitan Police Department, was arrested Sunday and booked on one count of suspicion of home invasion and one count of burglary.
Six people were killed in separate crashes on Las Vegas Valley roads in the four-day span from Saturday to Tuesday, including four pedestrians, an e-scooter rider and a truck driver.
Ronald Mortensen, a former Las Vegas police officer convicted of murder in connection with a 1996 shooting death, maintained his innocence.
A 10-month-old child, who authorities say was taken by the child’s mother, has been found according to the Amber Alert website.
Authorities have alleged he is the person who vandalized at least five Teslas in the early hours of March 18.
Police responded to a central Las Vegas Valley apartment following reports that babysitter Marketta Phillips, 41, had killed a three-year-old child, later identified as Journei Ross.
Authorities are searching for a suspect after a woman was shot and killed at an apartment in North Las Vegas on Sunday night.
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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.
