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Clark County Commissioner Tom Collins is facing misdemeanor charges for unlawfully discharging a firearm within the city limits and disturbing the peace the night of July 3, the North Las Vegas city attorney’s office announced Wednesday.
Six people were injured Tuesday when a car smashed into an office building near Jones Boulevard and Sahara Avenue.
CJ , the chimp that escaped from her cage twice in about a month, is scheduled to leave Las Vegas as early as Tuesday morning. Lee Watkinson, who owns CJ with his fiance, Timmi De Rosa, said officials from Chimps, Inc., a sanctuary in Bend, Ore., will arrive in Las Vegas Monday night. If everything goes to plan, CJ will leave sometime Tuesday.
He was a man with a bad leg and a big smile, and Bobby Joe Jenkins didn’t think much about him when things went bad in the summer of 1999.
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.
A standoff that briefly closed Hoover Dam on Tuesday afternoon ended peacefully when a man surrendered to police after driving through a security checkpoint.