On the night of the Route 91 Harvest shooting, William King shielded his girlfriend with his body, taking a bullet in his back. On Friday, the two exchanged vows in Henderson.
Briana Erickson
Former Reporter
Approximately 800 veterans attended the 2019 Veterans Stand Down at Big League Dreams Park in Las Vegas. The event on Wednesday offered a variety of services and resources.
Instead of approving a bill to increase taxes and fees to pay for homeless services in Clark County, the Legislature last week amended it to require the county and its municipalities to work together for a solution.
Las Vegas attorney and former NSPCA board member Tina Walls filed a complaint March 29 with the state attorney general’s office, accusing the organization’s former president of misusing shelter funds.
At 96, Onofrio “No-No” Zicari is finally ready to return to the spot where he spent the worst hours of his life.
Las Vegas police are investigating a motorcycle crash that left a wheelchair-bound pedestrian dead in the central valley Friday night.
Two people sought in the killing of a 71-year-old doctor whose body was found in a nearby desert were roommates of a Las Vegas woman arrested in connection with his death, police said.
The board of directors of the Nevada Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals voted unanimously to turn over operations of the animal welfare group to the Reno-based Humane Network, the organization announced Friday.
Since Metro added six officers to its Homeless Outreach Team in December, the unit has made contact with more than 3,000 homeless people, persuaded 791 to accepted services and moved 147 into permanent housing, it says.
The visit, part of the Collings Foundation’s 110-city “Wings of Freedom Tour” to honor veterans of the war, includes three bombers and a fighter.
Though big improvements at Huntridge Circle Park are in the works, residents remain concerned that when it reopens it will again become a magnet for the homeless, drug users and petty thieves.
Las Vegas Mayor Carolyn Goodman’s delivery was smooth: She smiled for the cameras as she knocked on the door of Dennis Schoen and Cynthia Boyles’ trailer on Tuesday and presented them with a week’s worth of Meals on Wheels.
Other homeless residents admit to being unnerved by the back-to-back fatalities — one a homicide, the other a pedestrian death — but others say they simply underscored a central truth of life on the streets: “There ain’t no safety.”
Grammy Award-winning singer Kelly Clarkson will headline a fundraiser in Las Vegas on May 24 to benefit several local nonprofits targeting at-risk youth.
Eddie Lee Jackson, 38, told a police officer after the fist fight on Friday that he was being jailed over “some fool he left leaking in the parking lot,” according to his arrest report.