James “Jimmy” McCoy was riding his e-bike after leaving a prayer service in the northwest valley when police said he was struck and killed by a drunk driver.
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A 49-year-old woman was ordered to serve up to 20 years behind bars in connection with a southwest valley killing.
Joshua Billings, 29, pleaded guilty to second-degree murder and robbery in the 2022 stabbing death of Marcos Rocha, 30.
The co-founder of a venture capital firm and his wife were the donors behind the Metropolitan Police Department’s acquisition of Tesla Cybertrucks, according to the police.
The caller, who did not give his name, told a dispatcher that he and Atomic Liquors bartender Hope Ritter had parked in front of his house to talk. Then, he said, he heard gunshots.
Sheriff Kevin McMahill also said 2024 homicides and motor vehicle thefts in the department’s jurisdiction were both down by more than 20 percent compared from 2023.
The Historic Westside has a house that hosted Black entertainers like Sammy Davis Jr. and Nat King Cole who couldn’t stay at the Las Vegas Strip casinos where they performed.
Hope Ritter, 29, “radiated hope,” said Glen Johnson, leaning on the patio railing outside Atomic Liquors, where his friend of two years used to bartend before her death.
Mother Regina Lacerda said the group demanded justice in the case of the killing of her 26-year-old Tabatha Tozzi, allegedly shot and killed by her then-boyfriend in April 2023.
A Las Vegas woman with dual U.S.-Mexican citizenship ran a “romance scam on steroids” that caused the deaths of three people, the FBI said.
Police said Joshua Martinez, 19, gave investigators a “timeline of events” for the morning he is accused of killing a man outside a Walgreens.
A judge sentenced a former Clark County School District substitute teacher after January 2024 reports of a special needs student being hit on multiple occasions.
Joshua Martinez, 19, stood before Justice of the Peace Suzan Baucum in Las Vegas Justice Court on Tuesday to determine whether he should remain in jail.
A man was found dead near a northwest Las Vegas business complex on Monday morning, according to police.
Henderson Chief of Police Hollie Chadwick is not the department’s first boss to be asked — or told — to give up their position in recent years.