A man authorities think killed his wife asked officers to shoot him before they opened fire, the Metropolitan Police Department announced Tuesday.
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An inmate who escaped from a minimum-security conservation camp last week was captured Saturday morning in Summerlin, according to a department of corrections spokeswoman.
No serious injuries were reported after an Royal Australian Air Force aircraft aborted its takeoff and caught fire Saturday morning at Nellis Air Force Base, officials said.
Las Vegas police are investigating the second officer-involved shooting of 2018 — an incident near the Stratosphere that unfolded less than 24 hours after the first.
After waiting more than two decades for an arrest in her older sister’s killing, Marie Ann Iverson Coker’s first instinct was to look up the suspect’s social media accounts. “I have waited almost 21 years. I needed to see the last person she saw,” Coker said.
U.S. marshals arrested a Las Vegas man in Chicago in connection with the death of his 10-month-old child, the Metropolitan Police Department announced Friday.
A former Metropolitan Police Department officer previously convicted of abusing his badge for sex admitted involvement in a 1997 sexual encounter and shooting that left a woman dead, according to court documents obtained Friday.
Police arrested a 39-year-old man suspected of robbing a North Las Vegas casino cage Thursday afternoon, officials said.
Las Vegas police said Floyd Mayweather Sr. dragged a woman by the leg from the backseat of his car and punched her after a boxing match on the Strip, according to court documents obtained Thursday.
A 66-year-old moped rider died Wednesday afternoon after crashing with a box truck in the central valley, Las Vegas police said.
A man accused of killing another man because he thought his music was too loud had complained about the problem in the days leading up to the deadly shooting, police documents show.
A Las Vegas man told his neighbor he killed two homeless people behind a central-valley swap meet because one of the people was a sex offender, court documents show.
Temperatures should creep up after a cooler weekend in the Las Vegas Valley, the National Weather Service said.
Troopers identified the California couple killed in a motorcycle crash Friday night west of Mountain Springs.
Two people were fatally shot and another injured in an apparent murder-suicide incident early Saturday morning in the central valley, police said.