Leo’oolo Tevaseu, 21, was booked into the North Las Vegas Community Correctional Center on one count each of murder and felony child abuse.
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.
Las Vegas police were involved in two separate vehicle pursuits Saturday, one of which left officers with seemingly minor injuries, according to the Metropolitan Police Department.
A solar company general manager is accused of bilking seniors out of about a quarter-million dollars for work they paid for and he never performed, Nevada authorities allege.
A motorcyclist and his teenage passenger were hospitalized following a Saturday night crash in the east valley.
A Nevada prisoner is accused of sending threatening letters to a federal judge in Las Vegas, according to a criminal complaint.
A DUI suspect accused of killing two pedestrians at an east Las Vegas bus stop told officers that she thought she had suffered a seizure and didn’t remember the crash.
Nevada’s highest court unanimously ruled that a state ban on ghost guns is constitutional, overturning a lower court’s decision.
The Nevada Supreme Court upheld a $48 million award to the owner of Las Vegas’ defunct Badlands golf course, as part of a long-running land-use dispute with the city.
A 64-year-old woman is facing felony counts of DUI and reckless driving after two pedestrians were killed in a bus stop crash in the east Las Vegas Valley.
A semi-truck driver accused in a crash that killed three motorcyclists near Laughlin last month blamed the wind for causing him to drive on wrong-way lanes, according to a Nevada Highway Patrol arrest report released Wednesday.
A man who told police he had shot at a truck carrying his stolen motorcycle outside his northeast valley apartment is facing a murder charge.
The beating of an elderly couple in a Henderson home invasion early Saturday was so severe that their alleged attacker was left covered “head to toe” with their blood, according to the suspect’s arrest report.
A man accused of killing two women outside a southeast Las Vegas business in early March has been extradited to Clark County.
Two people are suspected of stealing more than $4,000 worth of pickleball equipment from a southwest Las Vegas Valley store by hiding paddles in their clothing.
A hit-and-run suspect accused in a crash that killed a pedestrian in North Las Vegas early Saturday was speeding and only pulled over after his car stopped working, according to an arrest report.