The Southern Nevada Health District on Saturday reported the highest number of daily COVID-19 cases since the start of the pandemic nearly two years ago.
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.
The Metropolitan Police Department identified an officer who fatally shot a burglary suspect Thursday morning in a southeast valley neighborhood.
A man suspected of a residential burglary was shot and killed by police Thursday morning in southeast Las Vegas, the Metropolitan Police Department said.
A man accused of firing about a dozen bullets into a waiter at a Spring Valley restaurant during an alleged after-hours robbery attempt in December was denied bail Thursday.
Cashmen Robinson, 39, was booked Tuesday into the Clark County Detention Center on one count of murder.
A man told Las Vegas police that “losing” in a video game and his baby’s cries had upset him to the point that he squeezed her leg and pushed her knees into her chest, according to his arrest report.
The Clark County coroner’s office said the victim died from a gunshot wound to the chest.
Bob Halloran, who ascended from a young local sportscaster in Florida to a revered boxing executive in Las Vegas, died Sunday in Rancho Mirage, Calif.
Giovanni Perkins died last year after taking a counterfeit Percocet pill laced with fentanyl, his mother said.
Las Vegas police officer Briar Huff was remembered as a “fun-filled spirit” dedicated to public service.
Her death was one of two on Friday linked to two suspects the Metropolitan Police Department later arrested on murder counts.
Police were summoned about 12:40 p.m. to the area of Industrial Road and Chicago Avenue.
Police said officers responded about 11:30 a.m. to the complex in the 3200 block of Flamingo Road, just west of Pecos Road, where they found the female victim with multiple gunshot wounds.
District Judge Tierra Jones on Monday sentenced 27-year-old Carlos Fonseca Jr. to prison for the killing of “Lady,” a Japanese Tosa breed.
The stabbing was reported about 5 a.m. Thursday on a sidewalk near Las Vegas Boulevard and Mandalay Bay Road.