“I was that skeptical dude that I thought COVID was a joke,” Sgt. Tom “T.J.” Jenkins says in a video posted online. “… I’m here to tell you it almost took me off this planet.”
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A Henderson mother faces two counts of murder.
A Las Vegas woman has been arrested after police say she left two dogs outside in the heat on Tuesday while running errands for much of the day, leading to their deaths.
A Henderson woman charged with killing her two children is employed by Clark County in a job aimed at helping children and families, a county official confirmed Thursday.
Hours before a truck plowed into an Idaho family’s SUV in March, killing three, Nye County deputies had made contact with the truck’s driver at an Amargosa Valley RV park, new records show.
A 72-year-old man who stepped into a Las Vegas roadway to take photos of some businesses Sunday morning was fatally injured by a hit-and-run driver.
A two vehicle crash in northwest Las Vegas left one man dead early Tuesday.
An accomplished marathon runner who went missing over the weekend while hiking in Yosemite National Park was found dead on Tuesday, officials said.
A Las Vegas man has been charged with carrying out a drive-by shooting on the wrong house in revenge for the theft of his French bulldog puppies, narcotics and a gun.
Family members told Las Vegas police that a man they didn’t know barged into their unit, prompting them to flee and call 911.
Law enforcement agencies from across Nevada are launching an enhanced effort to combat distracted driving Monday given a spike in fatal crashes across the Silver State in 2021.
A Las Vegas man who was acquitted of a sexual assault charge in 2013 has been charged with breaking into a woman’s home and sexually assaulting her.
Las Vegas police have made an arrest in the fatal shooting of a man in a northwest Las Vegas restaurant Monday night.
A fatal crash at McCarran International Airport early Thursday had a modest impact on traffic headed to Terminal 3.
Two thoroughfares in the eastern Las Vegas Valley were closed early Thursday.