Golden Knights personalities were on hand for a “puck drop” Thursday as the city of Las Vegas inaugurated a ball hockey rink in the central valley.
Ricardo Torres-Cortez
Local Government Reporter
Email: rtorres@reviewjournal.com
Ricardo Torres-Cortez covers the city of Las Vegas and Clark County. He returned to the Review-Journal, where he’d interned, after a five-year stint at the Las Vegas Sun newspaper. A Mexican-born graduate of UNLV, he’s passionate about soccer, video games, books and coffee.
The city of Las Vegas on Wednesday afternoon hosted a ribbon-cutting ceremony outside a pair of 40-foot shipping containers converted into hydroponic pods.
“I can assure you I’m more excited than ever before about our future,” Mayor Carolyn Goodman said during her state of the city speech Thursday evening.
If the law passes, about 140,000 green card holders and between 12,000 to 15,000 Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals recipients would be eligible to join police forces in the state.
Clark County and Las Vegas police began dispatching teams of social workers and officers to the Strip to offer resources to those experiencing homelessness, mental illness or substance abuse.
A cadre of officials on Wednesday unveiled a new Las Vegas Justice Court-based diversion program that may help thousands in such legal predicaments.
Breeonne Lambey, 27, died two weeks after the crash, which was reported June 13 at Fort Apache Road and Martin Avenue.
A motorist accused of killing a bicyclist in North Las Vegas admitted to consuming cocaine and alcohol earlier in the night.
A man who hurled threats and racist epithets at Gov. Steve Sisolak and his wife at restaurant near Summerlin earlier this year has died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
Jose Marmolejo, 21, who is accused of traveling as fast as 97 mph before losing control of his Ford Mustang and jumping onto a sidewalk where he hit the boy, was indicted in April.
Police responded about 11:40 a.m. to Liberty Baptist Church in the 6500 block of West Lake Mead Boulevard.
Margaret Crockett, who operated the private Alamo Airport, which would eventually become Harry Reid International Airport, died on March 30.
The cause of Mihaela and Tom Steyer’s anguish is the loss of her 16-year-old son Louis, whom his mother found dead from fentanyl intoxication on July 4 in their far north valley home.
Carlos Hank climbed the ranks at Metro from patrol officer to sergeant to lieutenant to captain, now heading the agency’s Internal Oversight and Constitutional Policing unit.
The new sites at Texas Station in North Las Vegas and Fiesta Henderson are capable of administering 40,000 tests a day, five days a week.