A car wash on Sunday aimed to raise money for the funeral services of a Las Vegas couple slain a week prior when the man killed his wife before he was fatally shot by police.
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.
Metropolitan Police Department Assistant Sheriff Lazaro Chavez shared the footage on Thursday.
A rapper arrested after he allegedly boasted about how “he got rich off” of unemployment benefits is expected to enter a guilty plea for stealing about $700,000 worth of those types of benefits.
The Animal Foundation has helped rescue more than 250 animals since Friday in what is the nonprofit’s busiest time of the year.
Las Vegas police on Tuesday were investigating a purported threat that shut down a Summerlin private school for the week, the school wrote in an email to parents.
Video shows an officer yelling at Kenneth Dehart, 23, from the other side of the wall of the second yard, telling him to get up and put his hands up.
Multiple people displaced after the June 19 blaze have been burglarized, and said that ongoing issues with intruders and petty crime in their gated community have been exasperated.
Harry Reid International Airport on Sunday reported 251 delayed flights and four cancellations, according to a flight tracking company.
North Las Vegas police were investigating a possible fatal crash early Sunday after a man’s body was found in a neighborhood near Alexander Road and Simmons Street.
Metropolitan Police Department officers responded about 10 p.m. on June 14 to the 1700 block of Bonanza Avenue, near Martin Luther King Boulevard.
The yearly parade has entertained scores of attendees for nearly three decades. This year’s event will be back at full scale after the pandemic forced organizers to host it virtually, and limit attendance last year.
A woman who fell from a jet ski into Lake Mead on Thursday morning was not wearing a life jacket, the National Park Service said.
A knife-wielding man had a chance to walk away after a man who was trying to disarm him lost his balance and fell in central Las Vegas, according to the Metropolitan Police Department.
The crash was reported about 9 a.m. Saturday on Charleston Boulevard near Decatur Boulevard, police said.
Marijuana consumption lounges might begin to spring up as early as this year, and state officials on Tuesday took a crucial step into making that timeline possible by approving regulations for such businesses.