The woman was crossing Las Vegas Boulevard near Webster Street when she was hit by a late model yellow Chevrolet Camaro.
Jeff Burbank
Before returning to the Review-Journal in 2022, Jeff spent seven years as a content development specialist at the Mob Museum. Before that, he worked as a reporter for the Bay City News Service, the Las Vegas Sun, UPI, Los Angeles Times and others, including the RJ from 1991-1995. He also has considerable experience teaching at UNLV, San Jose State and DeVry University. Jeff was a Fulbright Scholar in 2011.
A 37-year-old man was killed Friday night when his pickup truck drove through a dead-end street and a fence before crashing into a wall in east Las Vegas.
A number of people were arrested early Saturday after a suspected reckless driver drove onto the sidewalk near the Forum Shops at Caesars on the Strip.
Brittany Burgess, 35, is accused with Jennifer Courtemanche of allegedly taking $498,000 from Gavin Maloof by accessing his mobile phone.
About a dozen Las Vegas police officers were seen entering an apartment where a man was shot several times in the central valley.
Four other teens arrested in connection with the death of a Rancho High School student have remained in the juvenile court system because of their ages.
Rancho High School history teacher and State Assemblyman Reuben D’Silva, D-Las Vegas, said fights happen frequently in the area surrounding the school.
The man had walked toward officers holding a kitchen knife and asking to be shot, according to a police video released this week.
A 22-year-old man has been arrested in connection with a shooting this week that prompted police to briefly close a major street near downtown Las Vegas.
Douglas Bowman, 91, a veteran and former race car driver, has been a Formula One enthusiast for decades.
Jonathan Lewis, Jr., 17, was attacked by a group of about 15 people near Rancho High School last week, his father said.
The state argues in a District Court filing that Esmeralda County sheriff Nicholas Dondero failed certification as a peace officer and has to leave office.
Police “will have a large presence both inside the track and outside the track” during the Las Vegas Grand Prix, a Metro official said.
A man was killed in an early morning shooting Thursday inside an apartment across from a high school in downtown Las Vegas, according to Metro.
Defense attorneys filed a motion to have charges dismissed against Thomas Randolph, who was convicted in the 2008 deaths of his sixth wife and a hit man.