The Metropolitan Police Department arrested a 47-year-old man on Wednesday in connection with threatening phone messages left on the answering machine of the Las Vegas NAACP branch office.
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A man fired a gun on a bus in the northeast valley Wednesday afternoon, Las Vegas police said, prompting an hourslong standoff.
DeMarlo Berry was released from state custody around 6 a.m. Friday after spending 22 years in prison for murder. Another man has confessed to the crime.
District Judge William Kephart has been accused of violating professional ethics codes by giving an on-camera interview last year about a case that was pending before the Nevada Supreme Court.
Here are your Tuesday morning headlines.
Two people were injured Sunday evening after being struck by a hit-and-run driver in the Hard Rock Hotel parking garage, Las Vegas police said.
The night rioters and looters sent pockets of the Historic Westside up in flames, a familiar voice guided the community through the chaos. It was Louis “L.C.” Conner Jr., broadcasting loud and clear from KCEP, “The People’s Station,” located in the heart of the Westside.
While the riots in Los Angeles were far bigger and deadlier, the unrest in Las Vegas’ predominantly black community exposed festering problems and became a pivotal moment in police and community relations.
Riots after the Rodney King verdicts 25 years ago proved to be a watershed in the relationship between Las Vegas police and the city’s historically black community.
Defendant Melvyn Sprowson spoke to jurors for a final time Thursday as he delivered an animated closing argument in his kidnapping and child porn trial. Jurors will begin deliberations in the case Friday.
A Silverado High School volleyball coach was arrested in October after authorities accused him of sexual misconduct with a 16-year-old student, the Las Vegas Review-Journal has learned.
Dakota Routh said he had no idea his then 12-year-old daughter filed a written complaint last year against her teacher, Jeffrey Schultz, until Henderson police called him last week.
The request to defense attorneys suggests concern about the integrity of guilty pleas won via $2 police tests known to be prone to error.
A Las Vegas FBI special agent was arrested at gunpoint in Michigan after shooting at a police sergeant, Grand Rapids police told a Michigan news website.
A woman is in custody after taking authorities on a vehicle chase that shut down a portion of the 215 Beltway in the west valley for more than an hour late Thursday night.
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