The award from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation will be used to address incarceration and bail policies with a goal of reducing the Clark County Detention Center population by 20 percent.
Rio Lacanlale
Former Reporter
A mother of three young children is not expected to survive injuries she suffered when she was struck by a pickup truck Monday, a Las Vegas police traffic detective said.
Richard Thomas Mayes, 57, was not carrying identification when he was found dead shortly after 10 a.m. Sept. 26 near a tree in a desert area at 4615 Las Vegas Boulevard South.
Angel Garza, 40, was walking her dog and pushing a shopping cart on East Gowan Road around 12:45 a.m. on Oct. 16 when she was struck by a 2002 Infiniti I30 driven by 19-year-old Jabarie Norris, police said.
The church debuted the mural, titled “All Nations,” on Oct. 14 with a dedication that briefly shut down a chunk of Maryland Parkway.
Four decades after a 6-year-old boy was kidnapped from his school’s playground, the prime suspect in the case is living free in Las Vegas.
At least 34 percent of Lyon County’s legal sex workers showed signs of human trafficking, according to a four-month audit of the region’s brothels.
Two gunmen exchanged fire at the scene of a triple homicide last weekend, one of whom is a friend of the slain family members who remains at large, North Las Vegas police said Friday.
The Henderson Police Department will beef up its patrol beginning Friday through the holiday season in an attempt to target impaired drivers.
A man police suspect was killed by his cousin with a metal pipe on Tuesday was a 28-year-old Las Vegas resident.
A suspect in Sunday’s double homicide in Henderson led California authorities on a short chase before opening fire on several deputies early Wednesday, according to the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department.
It will be sunny in Las Vegas until the weekend, when there’s a chance the valley will be visited by showers and thunderstorms, according to the National Weather Service.
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.