A Clark County School District police officer was mourned after dying unexpectedly.
Brett Clarkson
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Brett Clarkson was born and raised in St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada and graduated from Humber College's journalism program in 2002. He has lived in various places including Toronto, Los Angeles, South Florida, Northern Virginia, and now, Las Vegas. Before joining the Review-Journal in 2022 he worked at the Niagara Falls Review, Toronto Sun, and South Florida Sun Sentinel, contributing to the Sun Sentinel's coverage of the 2018 Parkland shooting, which earned the paper the Pulitzer Prize Gold Medal For Public Service. He is the father of two children and has a dog named Julio.
Christopher Tapp, 47, died of blunt force trauma to the head, the coroner ruled.
A lawsuit from Latia Alexander, the mom of Isaiah Williams, 19, seeks at least $1 million in federal lawsuit.
Kayla Nicole Farzaneh-Simmons was arrested after she was pulled her over west of Rainbow Boulevard.
The Henderson Police Department provided an update Monday afternoon to fatal crashes that killed a mother and her two children Sunday evening.
An 18-year-old is accused in a Dec. 13 fatal stabbing on Mulcahy Avenue in Las Vegas.
14 years before Wednesday’s attack on a Clark County judge by a defendant who was being sentenced, a courthouse shooting left a security officer dead.
A 20-year-old man was hospitalized in Las Vegas following the blaze at a Mohave Valley home.
A Las Vegas police officer arrested early Sunday in Henderson has died by suicide, according to the Clark County coroner’s office.
A man accused of firing gunshots from a high-rise near the Strip on Sunday morning is facing over 70 felony counts, court records show.
Over 400,000 people were expected to descend on Las Vegas to celebrate New Year’s Eve on Sunday night. Of that total, up to 30,000 of those revelers were anticipated on Fremont Street.
With 400,000 people expected to ring in 2024 on the Strip and downtown, officials spoke about what they will be doing to keep Las Vegas’ New Year celebrations safe.
A man suspected of killing his mother and carjacking multiple vehicles died after a shootout with police in the southwest valley, authorities said.
A man who had been shot in the head and whose remains were found in a shallow grave by hikers near Lake Mohave in Arizona has been identified almost 50 years later, police announced Tuesday.
The Clark County coroner’s office identified four people killed in crashes Sunday and Monday in the Las Vegas Valley.