A Las Vegas man was sentenced to 30 months in federal prison Tuesday for participating in a scheme to file false tax returns under the stolen identities of dead people.
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Clark County officials are pursuing ways to more consistently regulate hookah lounges.
Mervyn Henry, 31, was arrested Thursday morning by detectives from Metro’s Repeat Offender Program. He faces a long list of burglary charges and one count for violation of parole.
Clark County commissioners on Tuesday unanimously approved a three-year contract with the 27-member union for juvenile justice supervisors.
North Las Vegas police said Tuesday that they need help identifying a truck and its two occupants who they say fired shots into a police building April 11.
Sure, you could go to the park and play soccer, kickball or one of those ordinary sports, but from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. May 2 at Sunset Park, 2601 E. Sunset Road, you can enter the Wacky World of Sports to watch and/or participate in six unusual sports, including Human Derby Races, Knockerball or Mud Volleyball.
A former Nellis Air Force Base staff sergeant was sentenced to 10 to 25 years in prison Tuesday in the death of his 3-month-old boy who authorities said suffered abusive head trauma at the hands of his father.
The Animal Foundation’s Best in Show is “the Westminster (Kennel Club) Dog Show meets the movie ‘Best in Show’ with a little Las Vegas flair,” said Animal Foundation representative Meghan Scheibe.
JoeJoe the capybara has more than 60,000 followers on Instagram, another 5,000 on Facebook, and he brings in enough ad money from his YouTube channel to pay all his own living expenses.
A man wanted for his involvement in the human trafficking of two Las Vegas teenagers in North Dakota has been arrested and is expected to be extradited, the Minot Police Department said Monday.
The designer of the “Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas” sign, Betty Willis, 91, died Sunday at home in Overton, about 65 miles northeast of Las Vegas. That same day, Brian “Buzz” Leming, 74, also died. Leming worked on neon icons including the signs for the Stardust, Barbary Coast and Westward Ho.
Las Vegas police now accepts some non-emergency crime reports online, the department announced Monday.
Shares of Caesars Entertainment fell $2.05, or 17 percent on Monday to close at $10. The casino operator said the company’s bankrupt operating division, Caesars Entertainment Operating Co., has been unable to reach a deal regarding the restructuring plan to cut “some” debt, Reuters reported.
A shooting that took the lives of three people Sunday at an apartment complex near Maryland Parkway and Desert Inn Road is being investigated as a murder-suicide, Las Vegas police said.
The Clark County coroner’s office has identified the man killed Friday in a shooting in North Las Vegas.