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Property owner has will to stay in downtown Las Vegas

Las Vegas city officials have been willing to vacate street and park space, buy entire blocks and even move out of their own city hall in the name of reviving downtown. But they haven’t been able to move Russell Gullo.

Chimp recaptured after second Las Vegas escape

For the second time in almost a month, CJ, a female chimpanzee, escaped from her enclosure shortly before 5 p.m. Saturday, tying up Las Vegas police and the city’s animal control for more than an hour in the northwest valley.

Union Pacific train derails in North Las Vegas

Union Pacific Railroad was set to clean up a small amount of potentially hazardous materials that leaked from a couple of tankers after a train derailed in North Las Vegas early Saturday morning.

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Suspect in strangulations draws attention from Mississippi, federal authorities

The Metropolitan Police Department’s investigation into Nathan Burkett, accused of multiple strangulations in Las Vegas, has opened eyes in Mississippi and may have caught the attention of the FBI, the Las Vegas Review-Journal learned Thursday. Las Vegas police accuse the 65-year-old Burkett of slaying two valley women, the first in 1978.

Valley residents come together with Sikh community

Valley residents shocked by the recent mass shooting in a Milwaukee Sikh temple held a vigil Wednesday night at the Las Vegas Sikh Temple.

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