Miguel Cardona was in Las Vegas to discuss pandemic-era mental wellness challenges, and to tout the Youth Mental Health and Suicide Prevention Act.
Ricardo Torres-Cortez
Local Government Reporter
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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.
“Tina is a hero, and she should be remembered as a hero,” said her uncle Pedja Komazec, saying that her death could have averted a more catastrophic crash further along the road.
New details about a woman’s overdose death emerged in the heavily redacted arrest reports of a couple accused of selling her pills laced with fentanyl.
On Saturday, the unidentified man was taken to University Medical Center after a corrections officer on cell watch found him “unresponsive.”
The Clark County coroner’s office, which identified him Tuesday, said he was 43 years old when he died Feb. 15.
A Monday morning crash involving about a dozen vehicles on U.S. 95 near Boulder City injured nine people, according to the Nevada Highway Patrol.
North Las Vegas police are investigating allegations that a man tried to scam a woman who lost seven relatives in a crash last month.
A woman was slain Monday morning outside a northeast Las Vegas apartment complex, according to the Metropolitan Police Department.
A group of truckers and other motorists opposed to COVID-19-related government policies announced this weekend that they would launch a national movement about three hours from Las Vegas.
The crash was reported at 1:30 p.m. at the Triangle Airpark in White Hills, Ariz., near U.S. Highway 93.
In the weeks since a North Las Vegas couple suffered the loss of seven of their loved ones in a crash, the outpouring of support has come from all corners of the U.S.
A pedestrian who suffered life-threatening injuries when he was struck by an SUV earlier this month in east Las Vegas has since died, Las Vegas police announced Thursday.
Allen Warren Miller pleaded guilty to one count of receipt of child pornography, prosecutors said.
Metropolitan Police Department officers picked up retired Detective Herman Moody, the first Black police officer in Las Vegas history, from his house and took him to the Clark County government center, where officials dedicated a proclamation in his honor.
Three couples renewed wedding vows Monday afternoon at the Sterling Ridge Senior Living complex.