Former Assemblywoman Ellen Spiegel will face political newcomer Michael Costa in the Democratic primary for state controller.
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.
Police said speed was a factor in a crash that killed a bicyclist in North Las Vegas on Sunday morning.
Seven people were hospitalized following a suspected DUI-crash in Summerlin Sunday morning, Las Vegas police said.
The Metropolitan Police Department was involved in a standoff Sunday morning with a “suicidal” person in the heart of downtown Las Vegas.
To many, the grim discovery of the body of a shooting victim in Lake Mead inspired a callback to a darker Las Vegas past, but the the reality could be as murky as the waters where the body was found.
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.
A full-scale Fourth of July parade is returning to Summerlin following two years of pandemic-related restrictions, organizers announced Tuesday.
Marisol Meza, 24, and Darren Moore, 27, were identified as two passengers killed in a Saturday crash that the Nevada Highway Patrol blamed on an impaired driver.
Las Vegas police do not suspect foul play in the death of a person whose skeletal remains were discovered Saturday at the Lake Mead National Recreation Area.
Las Vegas police officers responding to reports of gunfire found the man dead in an apartment on Maryland Parkway, near Fremont Street.
Henderson Detention Center records show that District Judge Jasmin Lilly-Spells was booked there Sunday and was released after posting $3,000 in bail.
Ten women pampered Mother’s Day with free high-quality hair and makeup services at Capelli Salon are survivors of abuse, or “leaders” who have overcome it, as Laverne Delgado prefers they are called.
The Las Vegas Fire Department said crews responded about 1:45 p.m. to East Charleston Boulevard and North Pecos Road and found the bus engulfed by flames.
Detectives were summoned to the 200 block of Maryland Parkway, near Fremont Street.
Two car passengers were killed in a suspected DUI crash that shut down northbound Interstate 15 in central Las Vegas for about six hours Saturday night.