Jonathan “Jonny” Smith’s friends described the 12-year-old as a “trickster, clown, a goofy dork,” but above all he was a bright light.
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Katelyn Newberg joined the Review-Journal's investigative team in February 2025. Following two internships, she joined the newspaper staff in 2018 as a breaking news reporter and began covering courts and legal affairs in October 2021. She is a native of central Florida and a 2018 graduate of the University of Florida's College of Journalism and Communications.
Las Vegas police are investigating a barricade situation in the northeast valley on Wednesday night after reports of shots fired.
A man faces a murder charge after a body was dumped in Amargosa Valley and found March 1, following a fight in Las Vegas, police said.
Las Vegas police are asking for help finding a person of interest in the fatal stabbing of a man found outside a bar near downtown Saturday morning.
The El Loco roller coaster at the Circus Circus Adventuredome was in motion when a woman fell from the ride, a spokesman for Clark County said Wednesday.
An 81-year-old Las Vegas woman has died from her injuries after a two-vehicle crash on Thursday in the east valley, police said.
A woman was injured Monday afternoon after she fell from a roller coaster in the Adventuredome at Circus Circus, a spokesman confirmed Tuesday.
A 64-year-old inmate died in hospice care at a Northern Nevada prison on Monday, the Department of Corrections announced.
A person was hospitalized after a fire Saturday afternoon in a central valley apartment complex, the Clark County Fire Department said.
Two people were injured Saturday after a cooking fire in the kitchen of City National Arena in Summerlin, the Clark County Fire Department said.
Sonya White has had an outpouring of love on social media this week, following her death Wednesday morning in what police say was a murder-suicide in the central valley.
A Tonopah man was arrested Sunday in Texas on suspicion of killing his father-in-law and dumping the body in a Nevada mine shaft late last year.
Henderson police have arrested a man with a firearm who barricaded himself inside a building Thursday night.
A man is in critical condition after he was shot in the face near Thursday night near downtown Las Vegas, police said.
The Clark County School District informed parents that a group of men followed a student who was walking to Tarkanian Middle School in the south valley on Wednesday morning.