After Cassie Smith’s 3-year-old son went missing, authorities found evidence that she had abused her younger son, according to her arrest report.
Katelyn Newberg
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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.
The driver of a Dodge Magnum was killed on the 215 Beltway near Cheyenne Avenue when a suspected DUI driver of a Jeep Wrangler traveling the wrong way on the freeway without headlights on slammed into his vehicle.
The U.S. Highway 95 southbound exit at Durango Drive will be closed for a month starting Sunday, the Nevada Department of Transportation said.
Las Vegas police are asking for help identifying a man suspected of two sexual assaults in August and May.
A 79-year-old woman died Monday, five days after she was involved in a two-vehicle crash in the north Las Vegas Valley.
The Nevada Department of Public Safety is investigating brothel owner and state Assembly candidate Dennis Hof over sexual assault allegations, the department confirmed Tuesday.
About 15 people gathered Tuesday evening at Sunset Park in Las Vegas to honor the three children who died recently.
Metropolitan Police Department officers responded to reports of a shooting about 8 a.m. at a home on the 3300 block of Stacey Lyn Drive, near West Desert Inn Road and South El Capitan Way.
The Clark County coroner’s office has identified the woman who died after a crash at the rear entrance to a Strip resort early Sunday morning.
Edgar Garcia, 24, died after hitting the dumpster around 2:15 p.m. Wednesday at 3201 S. Mojave Road, near McLeod Drive and East Desert Inn Road, the Metropolitan Police Department said.
The Clark County coroner’s office has identified the man who was shot and killed in a west valley neighborhood early Wednesday as Marquaire Ravon Collins, 20.
Las Vegas police have a suspect in an 84-year-old woman’s 2005 killing, but her son said even an arrest won’t fill the hole in his life.
A man convicted of first-degree murder in 1981 died in a Northern Nevada prison on Tuesday, the state Department of Corrections said.
The Clark County coroner’s office identified the man fatally shot Monday morning in the eastern Las Vegas Valley.
The Clark County coroner’s office identified the 3-year-old girl whose body was found in a duffel bag last week at her mother’s eastern Las Vegas Valley home.