The victim in an apparent murder-suicide police discovered Saturday in a downtown Las Vegas apartment has been identified.
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.
The cause of Mihaela and Tom Steyer’s anguish is the loss of her 16-year-old son Louis, whom his mother found dead from fentanyl intoxication on July 4 in their far north valley home.
Kevin McMahill, who denies any wrongdoing, was once the focus of an internal investigation that led top brass to recommend that he be fired for misconduct.
In the eight-minute 911 call, a Clark County School District police officer tells a Metro dispatcher that the handwriting matched that of the mother, which they compared to a school application.
Desert Oasis High School was placed on lockdown Wednesday while police investigated a report of a “weapon” on campus, according to the Clark County School District.
A pedestrian who was struck by a vehicle on the Las Vegas Strip last week has since died from his injuries, the Metropolitan Police Department announced Wednesday.
A man slain in a shootout last week, which also wounded six others at an extended-stay hotel, was identified Monday.
Key metrics used to measure the impact of the virus continue to show improvement, even after Gov. Steve Sisolak dropped the state’s mask mandate about a month ago.
An attorney was shot by the FBI Thursday after he pointed a gun at agents who had shown up to his northwest Las Vegas house to talk to him, according to a federal probable cause complaint.
Reynaldo Crespin, 59, was booked Saturday into the Clark County Detention Center on 10 counts, including sexual assault and lewdness of a child under age 14.
A man accused in the sexual assault of child last week told Las Vegas police that he had forced the victim into the acts by threatening his life.
A man fatally shot his sister’s boyfriend Saturday morning following a night fueled by PCP, according to his arrest report.
The estate of a man who was illegally questioned by Las Vegas police during a traffic stop of a van carrying motorcycle club members is being awarded $300,000.
A man accused of luring a child twice tried to entice a girl into his car, telling her how “beautiful” she was, according a report from the Metropolitan Police Department released Monday.