A pedestrian suffered life-threatening injuries after she was struck by a public bus in downtown Las Vegas Friday morning, according to Las Vegas police.
Ricardo Torres-Cortez
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.
A budding crop of local journalists who honed their skills at their high schools were honored by the Las Vegas Review-Journal in its 45th annual High School Journalism Awards.
Las Vegas police accused a 21-year-old man in the shooting death of a person during a street marijuana deal late Tuesday, according to jail records.
While filing to run for mayor of city of Las Vegas is a fairly inexpensive $100, keeping a campaign and candidate afloat has traditionally required more spending, meaning substantial fundraising in most cases.
A pedestrian injured by a hit-and-run motorist earlier this month in North Las Vegas died a week later.
Las Vegas police were investigating a homicide in an east valley neighborhood.
Las Vegas police were investigating a killing in a central valley neighborhood.
A man was fatally shot in an apartment and his body was disposed at a nearby vacant lot of by a man who helped the accused killer, according to police.
A passenger critically injured in a Las Vegas crash earlier this month has since died, the Metropolitan Police Department said Friday.
A Las Vegas woman was arrested Thursday for her alleged participation in the U.S. Capitol riot after the 2020 presidential election.
A Clark County grand jury indicted three men accused of trafficking nearly 45 pounds of fentanyl, the illicit opioid said to be many more times more powerful than morphine.
The Clark County coroner’s office identified a teenager found shot to death inside a car parked in a central valley neighborhood.
With court losses mounting against Las Vegas taxpayers, the city on Wednesday defended continuing its legal battle with the would-be developer of the Badlands golf course.
Reducing carnage on Las Vegas Valley roadways requires a community-wide commitment to safer driving, according to Sheriff Kevin McMahill.
The Metropolitan Police Department arrested a jail staffer accused of stealing cellphones from inmates being transferred to state prison, according to Sheriff Kevin McMahill.