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A 16-year-old Las Vegas girl was critically injured after she was hit by a truck in the northwest valley Saturday afternoon, Metro police said.
If you liked Saturday’s sunny skies, you’re in luck. Sunday promises to offer much of the same unseasonably warm weather.
The woman Henderson police said disappeared Friday afternoon after threatening to harm herself has been found unharmed.
A man was shot and killed early Saturday morning in the east valley, and Las Vegas police don’t have any witnesses.
Tragedy nearly struck when an early morning brawl at a central valley casino turned into gunfire Saturday.
An explosion at an NV Energy plant that triggered a transformer fire left most homes and businesses in Laughlin without electricity Friday night.
One civilian was treated for smoke inhalation and one firefighter was taken to University Medical Center after a vacant house in the south valley went up in flames Friday night.
An early morning shooting across the Las Vegas Strip left two women dead and a man in critical condition, according to Las Vegas police.
A 29-year-old man was convicted Friday in a series of crimes, including a fatal shooting at the Wetlands Park.
Two different women were arrested this week in connection to two separate child abuse cases, North Las Vegas police announced Friday.
In less than an hour, after a two-week trial, a Clark County jury of eight women and four men acquitted 25-year-old Li Zheng this week of seven charges: one count of first-degree kidnapping, three counts of sexual assault and three counts of battery with intent to commit sexual assault.
A Los Angeles businessman has been awarded $38.3 million in a Nevada defamation case involving anonymous websites that compared him to imprisoned fraudster Bernie Madoff.
Henderson police will team up with Metro over the next two weeks to catch speeders, a news release said Thursday.
Las Vegas police shut down a northwest valley neighborhood for several hours to investigate an alleged kidnapping Friday morning.
