Years before Northwest Academy was closed amid an ongoing child abuse investigation, officials from four Nevada communities removed their students from the facility.
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An allegation of Medicaid fraud last year against Northwest Academy led state officials to temporarily suspend payments to the boarding school.
The inmate killed last week at a private detention center in Pahrump was allegedly strangled to death by a codefendant in a federal case.
Alan Sylwester was arrested Tuesday on one count of murder in the death of 63-year-old Karen Byer inside a Lake Las Vegas home, police said Thursday.
Mateo Marcos Diaz-Ibarra was arrested in Eric Nelson’s shooting death, but the victim’s mother still must grapple with the question of why her son was killed.
Samuel Arthur Moore was being held without bail on one count of murder with a deadly weapon in connection with the Nov. 15, 2017, shooting death of Eric Thomas, 32.
SafeNest in January expanded its 24-hour crisis hotline to include text and online chat options. Now the Las Vegas-based domestic abuse treatment center is seeking to raise awareness of the options for victims.
A 19-vehicle crash Wednesday morning in a foggy mountain pass shut down a portion of Interstate 15 in Southern California.
A winter weather advisory in the Spring Mountains and Sheep Range has been issued for Wednesday night as the chances for rain ramp back up in the Las Vegas Valley.
The spill prompted an hourslong highway closure Friday about 70 miles northeast of Las Vegas, according to the state’s Department of Transportation. Traffic was being diverted onto the shoulder of the road.
Las Vegas police need the public’s help in identifying and locating a man suspected in an armed robbery early Monday at a gas station.
The Clark County coroner has identified the 10-month-old boy who died while in the care of a man now charged in the Las Vegas baby’s death.
A Las Vegas police homicide investigation was closed after the Clark County coroner’s office determined the July death of a man following a fistfight was an accidental drug overdose.
Earnest Frederick Symes, 52, was riding on a 2008 Harley-Davidson west on Blue Diamond Road near South Decatur Boulevard just before 4:35 p.m. Friday when he was struck by a 2014 Lexus IS350 that was changing lanes.
A 62-year-old motorcyclist who died Saturday evening after falling from his bike on a Las Vegas highway died of natural causes, the Clark County coroner’s office has determined.