The man who opened fire on Las Vegas police officers after shooting at his manager in a south valley store was booked into county jail Sunday.
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The woman was crossing Charleston Boulevard outside of a crosswalk near Nellis Boulevard shortly after 6 p.m. when a pickup truck struck her and dragged her through the intersection.
A Las Vegas police official on Monday credited a sergeant with saving a life last week when she fatally shot a man who had stabbed a woman.
Fatemeh Pourvahedi, 77, was crossing Decatur Boulevard outside a crosswalk near Sahara Avenue on Sept. 6 when she was hit by a white SUV, police said. She was hospitalized in critical condition and died Dec. 30.
Police were called at 11 a.m. to the shooting in the 2800 block of Hermosa Street, near East Sahara Avenue and Maryland Parkway, a Metropolitan Police Department spokesman said.
A man died in a fiery crash early Wednesday in Henderson, Las Vegas police said.
About 40 people gathered on the Strip on Sunday to mourn the death of Tashii Brown, who was choked by a Las Vegas police officer a year ago Monday.
Police responded just after 2 p.m. after multiple reports of a shooting on the 3800 block of Via Lucia Drive, near Alexander and Pecos roads.
An inmate at a Northern Nevada prison has died, prison officials said Tuesday.
A loophole in a 1994 federal aviation regulation enables helicopter manufacturers to skirt a requirement to put crash-resistant fuel systems in new aircraft — including the model that crashed Saturday in the Grand Canyon, killing three people and injuring four others.