Former UNLV basketball recruit Zaon Collins has been sued by the family of a man killed in a suspected DUI crash that landed the prospective player in jail last year.
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 are investigating allegations that deliberate dog poisonings have resumed in a western Las Vegas neighborhood.
Matthew Ray Hancock was jailed at the Clark County Detention Center on multiple charges, including making a false terrorist threat an trespassing.
A newly released report shows that the man who struck and killed a Nevada Highway Patrol trooper during a police chase had high levels of meth in his system.
George Goss, 59, died Wednesday from injuries sustained when he was hit by a car on Nov. 29 at the intersection of Flamingo and Mojave roads.
Nearly two years after the brutal beating of his daughter, which was captured in home surveillance video that received international media attention, the man can still visualize her injuries.
Firefighters responded about 10:15 a.m. Monday to the 3600 block of Fort McHenry Drive, near South Nellis Boulevard and East Desert Inn Road.
The victim, who was not hit by bullets, hid while the woman fled in a ride share with his cash, laptops, shoes and jewelry, the Sheriff’s Office said.
A man has been arrested in the killing in an east Las Vegas apartment of a woman he had “previously dated.”
Expelled from hundreds of miles beneath the Earth’s surface by a volcanic blast, a diamond contained small specks of a previously unknown natural mineral now named “davemaoite.”
On Friday, Gov. Steve Sisolak apologized for the state’s role in funding the construction of and relocating Native children to the Stewart Indian School in Carson City.
A recording of a 911 call offers a snapshot into the frantic moments after UNLV student Nathan Valencia collapsed following a bout in a fraternity-sponsored charity boxing event on Nov. 19.
Federal authorities say Josiah Kenyon, 34, of Winnemucca attacked police and broke into the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 as lawmakers were certifying the presidential election.
Clark County on Friday reported 483 new COVID-19 cases and 14 deaths from the disease during the previous day as well as a sharp jump in its test positivity rate.
Tammy Corrine Terrell, 17, of Roswell was last seen at a restaurant in her hometown in the company of an unidentified man and unknown woman.