Authorities have filed federal charges against a Phoenix woman accused of throwing a shoe on stage while Hillary Clinton gave a convention speech. The trespassing and violence charges lodged...
Metro’s unpopular new policy change on fender-benders has been a unifier of sorts, bringing together insurance agents, personal-injury attorneys and motorists to deliver an appeal to bring back the previous system. Under the new guidelines, officers no longer respond to most noninjury wrecks so they can concentrate on chasing down scofflaws. Now a month since the policy went into effect ...
A firefighter rescued a fellow crew member who fell into a burning North Las Vegas apartment building. The dramatic save happened while firefighters tackled a blaze that erupted ...
A fire erupted this afternoon at a North Las Vegas garage door business, causing an estimated $40,000 worth of damage. Capt. Cedric Williams with the North Las Vegas Fire Department said the blaze broke out about ...
Metro Police are investigating the shooting death of a man whose body was discovered Thursday night outside a convenience store in the southwest Las Vegas Valley. The man was found...
The High Roller, the towering observation wheel located within Caesars Entertainment’s new Linq development, has been granted an operating permit from...
A decades-long feud between a local rancher and federal land managers will culminate today as government officials begin rounding up free-roaming cattle from ...
A raffle for more than two dozen puppies rescued from a January pet shop fire is back on after a court battle over the animals was settled today. The Animal Foundation will offer $250 tickets for a drawing to adopt the pups. The dogs, which were taken to the Lied Animal Shelter in Las Vegas after the fire, have been the focus of a court battle between...
A wanted man who barricaded himself inside a house for more than six hours today has been arrested. Emanuel Cortez, 25, was wanted on kidnapping and home invasion charges stemming from ...
An inmate at High Desert State Prison has died, state corrections officials announced today. Daniel Ruiz, 36, had been at Valley Hospital in Las Vegas since Feb. 28, according to the Nevada Department of Corrections. Ruiz had been transported to Valley after being …
As Metro prepares to launch a pilot program outfitting 400 officers with the gadgets, researchers are considering ways to analyze their effect on interactions between police and civilians. Among those researchers is Bill Sousa, a professor of criminal justice at UNLV who says anecdotal evidence from previous studies suggests the cameras can bring unexpected results — for example …
Metro Police have identified a suspect in the shooting of a man who died after causing a pileup Thursday on a 215 Beltway off-ramp while driving with multiple gunshot wounds. Police are looking for...
One person died and another was injured in a house fire Wednesday night caused by careless smoking, Las Vegas fire officials said. The blaze started about 11 p.m. at a house at...
Las Vegas Fire & Rescue responded about 3 p.m. to reports of a fire at 6920 Briar Creek Lane, near West Grand Teton Drive and North Rainbow Boulevard. A caller claimed a person tossed …
Bright skies and cool breezes graced pooches of all breeds and sizes as they played fetch, stretched out over grass and made new friends Saturday during Henderson's Bark in the Park, the city's annual homage to canine companionship.
Not all Nevada officers are created equal. Depending on their training, some have the skills and authority to arrest people and carry out car chases, while others are more apt to perform duties within a jail or prison.
Duke University professor and evolution expert Mohamed Noor stood before the packed UNLV auditorium and pondered aloud the quirks of his job, the subject of his highly anticipated presentation Thursday night.
The court says it is seeing a “resurgence” of a scam in which Clark County residents are called and told they need to pay a fine over the phone for not ...
While crime statistics can help identify trends, it’s important not to scrutinize them too deeply, said Bill Sousa, a criminal justice professor at UNLV. Slight annual changes are not always indicative of a larger pattern. Data released by the FBI also do not account for...
The usually mundane race is more important this year because of its effect on Gov. Brian Sandoval, who might not challenge Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid in 2016 if Flores wins because ...
Kitty Rodman, a native Virginian who followed her husband to Las Vegas in 1952 and subsequently became a pioneer businesswoman, revered philanthropist and champion of education, died Thursday. She was 88.
The Clark County School Board voted to rezone more than 1,000 students next school year, a move that doesn't sit well with many parents. Kelli Mendenhall, mother of two children at Givens Elementary — one of 17 affected campuses — said the rezoning efforts were a short-term solution. “It’s like we are trying to see just how close we can get to the edge of a cliff without going over it,” she said.
he secret to beating a Guinness World Record? For Las Vegan Brad Hess, it was tolerating dizziness. Hess, who now holds the Guinness record for most forward somersaults in midair in under 60 seconds, spent months perfecting his technique before officially setting the record earlier this month.
If Chris Collins’ ruminations are true, Metro Police officials have deliberately left funded job vacancies unfilled for years as a tactic to push for the More Cops sales tax.
Lt. John Loretto said the two-vehicle crash happened about 6:10 p.m. on Rainbow near Russell Road. Both drivers involved were rushed to University Medical Center.
A crew began to search for three men at daybreak today and found their capsized boat about 11:30 a.m. Using a helicopter, the crew found the body of one of the men about 2:30.
North Las Vegas Police Officer Aaron Patty said the child was shot about 7 p.m. near Centennial Parkway and Losee Road. She was rushed to UMC with injuries not considered life threatening.
Traffic detectives are asking for help identifying a motorist who ran over an elderly man’s legs in an apparent fit of road rage earlier this month. Metro Police are treating the Feb. 6 attack as an attempted murder.