A teenage boy and his father were killed and three others were hospitalized Thursday after a boat explosion caught a home on fire near Carey Avenue and Revere Street. Las Vegas Fire and Rescue spokesman Tim Szymanski said witnesses saw the father working on his boat when there was an explosion.
To most people, Chef Andre Rochat Place is just another stretch of asphalt lost in the interlocking grid of roads that form downtown Las Vegas. But at 11 a.m. Thursday, the single-block street outside the Lloyd George Federal Courthouse will take on a new purpose. It will be renamed Stanley W. Cooper Place, after the court security officer who died as a hero after a shooting inside the courthouse in 2010.
The weight of the economic recession has forced the North Las Vegas Chamber of Commerce to merge with the Las Vegas Chamber of Commerce in order to survive.
A Toyota Avalon struck a woman as she was crossing Blue Diamond Road in a crosswalk around 4 p.m. Tuesday, Nevada Highway Patrol Trooper Loy Hixson said.
Drug Enforcement Agency officers issued a federal search warrant to a local business suspected of marijuana distribution near Sahara Avenue and Rainbow Boulevard around 4:30 p.m. Tuesday.
When Jon and Alice Degusto learned that the Bureau of Land Management was hosting its first wild burro adoption event Saturday near Blue Diamond, they had to attend. By the end of their visit, they filled out the paperwork to take home 2-year-old, black-and-white jenny No. 38.
A spilled deep fryer caused a fire that killed two dogs and burned three adults and two children Saturday at a home near Hacienda Avenue and Maryland Parkway, Clark County spokesman Dan Kulin said.
People have told Peggy Girard she has her father’s Irish eyes, and she’s had to take their word for it. Her father went missing in action during the Korean War on Feb. 22, 1950, and she was born the following month. For years she held out hope that he’d come home, but he never did. She never had a chance to see those eyes for herself.
One person died and two were injured in a five-car crash on Interstate 215 near Sahara Avenue around 7 p.m., Nevada Highway Patrol Sgt. Kevin Honea said. A man driving a black Chevy Tahoe had failed to slow down for traffic and slammed into a stopped Mini Cooper going an estimated 55 mph, Honea said. The collision killed the driver of the Mini Cooper and injured the passenger. A person in a separate car was also injured.
Shock. Anger. Grief. Hundreds of teary-eyed people with solemn faces gathered around the candle-and-flower-filled memorial site at the Spring Mountain Road and Decatur Boulevard bus stop for a candlelight vigil Thursday night.
Starting Monday, traffic lanes on Decatur Boulevard between Lake Mead Boulevard and Rancho Drive will be restricted for seven weeks while construction crews upgrade the road.
A Reno man died after he crashed his moped into a stopped Freightliner box truck on Sahara Avenue near Valley View Boulevard around 10:30 a.m. on Wednesday.
A former Nevada attorney received 15 months in prison on Tuesday for filing fraudulent income tax returns from 2005 to 2007, Internal Revenue Service agent Shea Jones said.
A man was shot in the finger in a gang-related drive-by shooting near Charleston Boulevard and U.S. 95 around 3:20 p.m. today, Metro Police officials said.
Two years ago, Gerber Ayala-Tomasino Jr. promised his family in El Salvador that once in America, he would work to support them until he died. That support would come to a tragic end on Sept. 13 while he sat waiting for a bus to take him to his job at a local recycling company.
A man wanted for his alleged involvement in a string of check-cashing store robberies in California was arrested in North Las Vegas on Friday, U.S. Marshals Service officials said.
For years Bob Sands resented reunions. The U.S. Navy veteran always avoided them. But then the St. George, Utah, resident received an email asking him to attend a USS Grayback naval submarine reunion.
The intersection of Carey Avenue and Belmont Street will be closed from 5:30 a.m. Saturday to 7 p.m. Sunday, while North Las Vegas gives it a makeover.
A section of the 3.7-mile-long Historic Railroad Tunnel Trail near the Hoover Dam is closed until Sept. 29 so crews can reseal the Hoover Dam Parking Garage.
A Southern Nevada drug task force team removed more than $500,000 worth of marijuana plants in an outdoor raid at Lovell Canyon, about 20 miles north of State Route 159.
President Barack Obama wasted little time on his arrival Wednesday afternoon at McCarran International Airport. Unlike his previous visits to the Las Vegas Valley, there were no crowds, political officials or Air Force officers on hand to greet him.
A Desert Rose Golf Course landscaper went missing and is believed to have been swept away in the wash that runs through the course after a parade of thunderstorms flooded the area Tuesday afternoon, Metro Police officials said.
A man suspected of stabbing and beating a handicapped man to death at the intersection of H Street and Weaver Avenue on Friday was arrested and charged with murder, a Metro Police arrest report states.
It’s almost 7 p.m. on a scorching late-August Monday, and a line of homeless men and women stretches two blocks along G Street. Some in line are rail thin, covered in the grime of life on the street, others push strollers with their children in them, and others are in wheelchairs. They’ve ended up here because of unforeseen illnesses, past mistakes or a combination of both. All are in need of nourishment and a helping hand.
Summer is nearing its end, which in the Las Vegas Valley means it’s safe to spend time outdoors again. What better way to take a break from the air-conditioned confines of the home and spend time with the family than a day at a park?
Las Vegas resident Jimmy Emory knew he couldn’t miss this year’s Las Vegas Pride Night Parade on Friday night. He leaned over the railing on Fourth Street waving a miniature rainbow flag in support of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community and cheering at each float.
A man who defrauded 66 people out of more than $200,000 in Las Vegas through two debt relief companies was sentenced to more than 11 years in federal prison on Tuesday, U.S. Attorney in Nevada Daniel Bogden said.
Metro Police detectives are searching for a man suspected of sexually assaulted a woman at gunpoint in his car on Aug. 28. Police responded to the incident at Pebble Road and Durango Drive.
Metro Police has identified the suspect arrested Tuesday night after allegedly stabbing three of his co-workers outside a Fremont Street restaurant and bar. Ariel Palomares, 31, has been booked on three counts of battery with a deadly weapon.
A man stabbed three of his co-workers leaving one in critical condition after a fight at the Fremont Street Experience on Tuesday, Metro Police officials said.
A man facing charges of defrauding the government of more than $300,000 pleaded guilty to one count of filing false tax claims at federal court on Tuesday, Internal Revenue Service official Sam Holland said.
Southbound lanes on Interstate 15 between Lake Mead Boulevard and Cheyenne Avenue will be reduced overnight this week for continued construction on the North Fifth Street Bridge, North Las Vegas officials said.
A woman is dead after her car was rammed Tuesday afternoon in an accident in which drug or alcohol use is suspected, North Las Vegas Police spokeswoman Chrissie Coon said.
Geofrey Lavell is a finalist for the Realtor Magazine’s 2012 Good Neighbor Award, designed to recognize realtors that volunteer their time to local causes. But for Lavell, it’s more than just a passionate cause – it’s a personal one.
Through the years, the popularity of unions in the workplace has steadily declined. Fewer people are signing up, and the impact and necessity of labor unions has come into question. But there are still many people who believe in the power of a unionized workforce.
After 21 hours, 17-year-old Melissa Duran’s kidnapping nightmare ended Saturday. Henderson Police found Duran bound, blindfolded and alone in a bathroom inside an apartment on Flower Avenue. By 4:20 a.m., SWAT officers had delivered search warrants, rescued Duran and arrested her two suspected captors.
Standing on the grassy field of Molasky Park, three groups of about 20 volunteers clutching fliers are on a mission to establish police interaction within the community, while also introducing residents to resources available to assist them.
Four people were displaced from their home near Tropicana Avenue and Nellis Boulevard after their garage caught fire on Friday, Clark County spokeswoman Stacey Welling said.
Green Valley High School senior Mariah Wilson was in sixth-period class when she and her classmates heard the news — fellow senior Melissa Duran had been kidnapped.
An elderly woman was found unconscious in her empty bathtub, and later pronounced dead after her bedroom caught fire around 6 p.m. on Thursday at 704 Wilson Ave., Las Vegas Fire and Rescue official Tim Szymanski said.
Marvie Hill, 37, is scheduled to appear Friday at the North Las Vegas Justice Court for a walk-through booking and then be released on a $40,000 bail that has been posted, North Las Vegas Police officials said.