A 17-year-old girl told Las Vegas police she was coerced into having sex with a school ROTC adviser who she thought could help her military career.
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A dust advisory has been issued for the Las Vegas Valley from Thursday evening to Friday evening due to blowing winds from the southwest.
Downtown residents won’t have far to walk or drive for milk and eggs when White Cross Market opens this summer.
Jimmy Shoshani is making plans to take over the space vacated by White Cross Drugs at Las Vegas and Oakey boulevards and make the former drugstore a small grocery store.
More than three dozens officers were honored Wednesday during the Metropolitan Police Department’s Commendation Ceremony. Five officers received the agency’s “highest honor,” the Medal of Valor.
A 19-year-old man turned himself in to police on Tuesday after he admitted accidentally shooting a friend and dumping her body in the desert.
Retired Las Vegas police Capt. Frank Sutton has struck a deal to plead guilty in the high-profile federal investigation of Las Vegas Valley homeowners associations.
Garrett Vandereecken, a Las Vegas police officer charged with sexually abusing an underage girl, said he was “the one chasing the bad guys and now is the bad guy” during a tense confrontation with the victim’s father last year, according to a police report. The girl told police the abuse began in 2008 on a Memorial Day camping trip when she was 11 years old. She is now 15.
If North Las Vegas officials don’t do something drastic, the city will be left without enough cops and firefighters to keep its residents safe, according to a resolution proposed Wednesday by City Manager Tim Hacker. The City Council is scheduled to vote June 1 on his proposal to suspend the portions of union contracts dealing with pay raises, uniform allowances and vacation buyback programs.
A wildfire burning in Northern Nevada caused smoky conditions in Las Vegas on Wednesday.
The Southern Nevada Water Authority has taken on its first tenant and plans to lease more unused space at its downtown headquarters. The valley’s wholesale water supplier has about 30,000 square feet of vacant office space scattered throughout the five floors it owns in the Molasky Corporate Center, a 14-story office complex at City Parkway and Ogden Avenue, southwest of the Spaghetti Bowl.
The first-ever Las Vegas Valley Community Convention for the Common Good was equal parts pep rally, revival meeting and town hall gathering. The Tuesday evening event at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas student center ballroom drew more than 1,500 people interested in organizing a broad-based, interdenominational effort to address social problems facing the valley.
