The Metropolitan Police Department announced Wednesday a change to its use of force policy to limit neck restraint tactics.
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Fire crews on Mount Charleston are making progress on the 2,800-acre Mahogany Fire, which was 95 percent contained as of late Sunday, a week after it started.
Traffic is backed up for 12 miles on the way out of Las Vegas to California, according to a tweet from the Regional Transportation Commission.
By Thursday morning, the county had received 8,901 illegal fireworks complaints on its ISpyFireworks.com website. At this time last year, the county had received 1,695 complaints.
The Mahogany Fire started as a 10-acre brush fire Sunday afternoon. The fire forced “hard closures” on Deer Creek, Kyle Canyon and Lee Canyon roads for at least 72 hours, NHP said.
About 30 people gathered at the gravesite of FBI Special Agent John Bailey on Thursday for the 30th anniversary of his fatal shooting.
Henderson police are investigating an “accident involving injuries,” the department said on Twitter.
An inmate at the Clark County Detention Center died on Wednesday after the inmate “appeared to be having a medical episode,” police said.
A peaceful protest supporting the Black Lives Matter movement was being held Wednesday in downtown Las Vegas.