The Clark County Coroner’s Office has identified the man shot and killed after a party Sunday night in the western valley. Las Vegas resident Robert Sanchez, 19, died from a shot to his chest.
A teenage woman with mental disabilities, last seen Tuesday near Decatur Boulevard and Tropicana Avenue, has been reported missing. Metro Police officials said Yesica Frias-Gonzalez, 18, was wearing a black shirt with a flower design, gray sweatshirt and sweatpants and flip-flops.
A man was hit Wednesday morning by a four-door sedan on Las Vegas Boulevard North, just north of downtown. Metro Police officials said the man, who is in his 40s, was transported to University Medical Center in critical condition.
The owner of a Henderson counseling business was arrested for allegedly filing false attendance records to courts in exchange for money from people ordered to get domestic-violence counseling, police said.
A 49-year-old man was shot in the neck this morning while driving on Interstate 15 South, near Valley of Fire State Park, the Nevada Highway Patrol reported.
A man killed one person and injured another before shooting himself at his apartment following a standoff with North Las Vegas Police Tuesday night, authorities said.
Portions of Las Vegas Boulevard, from Tonopah Avenue to Craig Road, will have lane reductions for a Nevada Department of Transportation drilling project on Wednesday and Thursday.
Students and faculty at Kahre Elementary School were evacuated briefly Tuesday afternoon after a faint odor was detected at the school, Las Vegas Fire and Rescue spokesman Tim Szymanski said.
The Clark County Coroner’s Office has identified the man killed early Friday when someone fired gunshots through his apartment window in northeast Las Vegas.
Six Henderson teens have been arrested in a vandalism spree in which they employed high-powered slingshots, marbles and paintballs to damage 23 cars over two weekends.
A motorcyclist was killed and a passenger injured in a collision with a pickup truck at the intersection of Rainbow Boulevard and U.S. 95 on Saturday, police said.
Utility troubles on this observed Veterans Day holiday are impacting at least two areas of the Las Vegas Valley. An outage late Monday morning near Desert Inn and Industrial roads in the central valley has left 733 NV Energy customers without power.
It was business as usual at the Lucky Club Casino eight hours after a fatal shooting. A few early morning patrons occupied the slot machines that make up most of the casino.
Mark Goldstrom stood on the sprawling concrete tarmac at Nellis Air Force Base surrounded by memories during the Aviation Nation air show Sunday. It all brought him back to the 20 years he spent as a crew chief fixing planes for the Air Force.
Four-year neighborhood stabilization project winding down
Friday, Nov. 9, 2012
North Las Vegas and four nonprofit developers have rehabilitated nearly 60 abandoned homes as part of the Neighborhood Stabilization Program. Since 2008, the city has filled 52 of them.
A school bus with only the driver onboard crashed Thursday morning into a patio wall at an Irish pub, Metro Police officials said. The bus was making a left turn onto Cameron Street around 9:15 a.m. when it crashed into a sedan. Police said the bus driver then hit the gas instead of the brakes and sped into the concrete wall outside McMullan’s Irish Pub, 4650 West Tropicana Ave., just east of Tropicana and South Decatur Boulevard
A man shot to death at a Las Vegas apartment complex Monday has been identified as Tyrolia Belt, 40, of Las Vegas, the Clark County Coroner’s Office said.
SWAT officers shot and killed an armed man after a two-hour standoff near Eastern Avenue and St. Rose Parkway early this morning, Henderson Police said. Police received a report about 11:30 p.m. Tuesday from a woman who said her boyfriend had a gun and had assaulted her.
A Las Vegas man faces up to 12 years in prison after he was found guilty on Monday of illegally obtaining and using thousands of credit and debit card numbers, according to Daniel Bogden, U.S. attorney for Nevada.
The identity of the man who was shot Saturday by Metro Police after allegedly trying to steal two cars and pointing his gun at police was released on Monday.
A man Metro Police officers shot and killed in a hostage situation Friday outside Siegel Suites apartments has been identified as Daniel Tiawan Hathorne, 39, of Las Vegas, the Clark County Coroner’s Office said.
A man was shot several times after exchanging gunfire early Monday with another resident at a North Las Vegas apartment complex, police said. North Las Vegas Police received reports of shots fired about 1:30 a.m. at Newport Village Apartments.
Susan England made a New Year’s resolution to collect toys to donate to the Toys for Tots Foundation. She hoped to collect 100 name-brand toys for $100 that would be given to needy kids through Toys For Tots. Two months later, she attained her goal and decided, "Why not go bigger?" Now she has collected more than 800 toys, and she isn’t done.
Metro Police officers on Saturday night were involved in their third shooting in one week. Police also released the identity of the two officers who shot and killed a hostage-taker Friday.
They call him the Dinosaur Man. He lives at 733 Greenway Road in Henderson at a place he calls “Shang-Gri-La-Prehistoric Park,” but the kids who know it, he says, have taken to calling it the Dinosaur House. His front yard is like a scene out of "Jurassic Park." There is a velociraptor, two triceratops and a blue brontosaurus. Baby dinosaurs hatch from eggs on the ground next to dinosaur bones. Everything is dwarfed, however, by the most popular dinosaur of all — front and center is a Tyrannosaurus rex almost the size of his one-story home.
A car crashed into the front of Winchell’s Donut House causing multiple injuries on Friday night. The vehicle had collided with another car on Eastern Avenue near U.S. 95, and then ricocheted into the doughnut shop.
A car struck a man Friday at a Las Vegas bus stop while the man was trying to fend off the theft of his newly purchased television. The victim was sitting at the bus stop with his purchase when a suspect approached him and attempted to steal the TV.
A U.S. government vehicle in Sen. Harry Reid’s motorcade triggered a chain reaction accident that affected six cars and sent the majority leader to a local emergency room last week.
A male nun, a female pope and a little devil in a stroller walk around the District at Green Valley Ranch in Henderson. Nearby, Spiderman and Batman stand in line with prisoners, witches and werewolves for fun-size Dots, Dum Dums and Jolly Ranchers. Meanwhile, adults on the Strip packed bars and casinos as if it were a weekend night.
Metro Police released the identity of the three officers involved in a shooting that left a suspect dead outside a retail store on Monday. Officers Michael Henry, Samantha Wimmer and Michele Iacullo were all placed on routine paid administrative leave while police investigate the incident.
While children are out knocking on strangers’ doors for candy this Halloween, local law enforcement agencies are working together to ensure registered sex offenders are in compliance with the law.
John Feathers and his wife were sipping coffee as they watched the 6 a.m. news last week in their Las Vegas home when they received an early-morning jolt.
The man shot and killed Monday by Metro Police officers behind a retail store in the central valley has been identified. The Clark County Coroner’s Office said the dead man was Las Vegas resident Ronald James Morrison, 52.
For years, Steven Overlay and his competitive barbecue team, the Sin City Smokers, struggled with the chicken. Overlay and his team, which includes his wife and her parents, compete in barbecue contests across the country. Overlay does the cooking. His ribs and pork shoulder always earn high marks; striking a balance of flavors from the apple-wood-chip-smoke, spicy dry rub, sweet sauce and velvety meat. His brisket is solid, with its salt-and-pepper garlic rub and hickory-cherry wood smoke flavors. But when it came to chicken, Overlay couldn’t find that balanced “backyard flavor.”
Robert Forbuss dedicated his life to improving Las Vegas, and on Friday night, hundreds of people filled the Smith Center to reflect on his life and the impact he had on them at his memorial.
A family of five was displaced Thursday after a clothes dryer ignited a fire in its home near Ash Street and Lake Mead Parkway in Henderson. Henderson Fire Battalion Chief Doug Koopman said a resident discovered the fire and called 911 around 12:30 p.m.
A Metro Police traffic enforcement officer crashed his motorcycle while on patrol around 4 p.m. Wednesday near Las Vegas Boulevard North and Nellis Boulevard.
A Henderson man who authorities said conned investors out of millions of dollars through a Ponzi scheme was to be arraigned on federal charges Wednesday afternoon in Los Angeles.