Las Vegas police investigated a fatal crash and a killing at a house party, and two officers shot a person they said tried to stab someone.
Ricardo Torres-Cortez
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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.
Antisemitism will be officially defined in the Nevada System of Higher Education handbook, the state’s Board of Regents ruled.
Until recently, Las Vegas mayoral candidate Irina Hansen had never aspired to run for office.
It’s an ordinance some Las Vegas City Council members acknowledged would be nearly impossible to enforce.
A man accused of beating a victim to death and mutilating his face in downtown Las Vegas might go to trial.
A man suspected of driving impaired in a head-on crash that left two people dead on Interstate 11 near Boulder City on Saturday afternoon has been identified by Nevada Highway Patrol.
A car passenger injured in a central valley crash last month died on Sunday, according to the Metropolitan Police Department.
While federal and Nevada lawmakers only recognized June 19 as an official holiday in recent years, Las Vegas Valley residents have honored the historic occasion for much longer.
Two victims killed after a wrong-way driver struck their vehicle near Boulder City were identified as Arizona residents.
A motorist accused of killing a pedestrian in central Las Vegas fled the scene and intentionally charred and ditched his car in a deserted area, according to police.
Imprisoned for a Las Vegas fatal DUI, former NFL player Henry Ruggs is in a prison work program that placed him at the Governor’s Mansion.
Las Vegas police arrested three suspects they allege kidnapped a child at gunpoint and held him against his will while they demanded a ransom from his parents.
A 65-year-old man was killed in single-vehicle crash Tuesday morning, according to the Henderson Police Department.
Three people killed in a suspected murder-suicide in Henderson have been identified.
The Clark County coroner’s office on Tuesday identified victims in two separate Las Vegas homicides last week.