Clark County Coroner’s officials identified a man stabbed to death whose body was discovered July 4 in the desert just outside Las Vegas on U.S. Highway 95.
Resident Dee Taylor heard a lot of positive things at the North Las Vegas community meeting on Wednesday at Aliante Station, but it’s what she didn’t hear that’s left her uncertain.
For many, wait times at the DMV can feel like Hell, but for those visiting the Henderson DMV on a scorching Wednesday afternoon, the temperatures inside felt like it, too.
A 35-year-old man died from a head injury after striking a light pole in his 2001 Chevrolet Silverado at 5:20 p.m. Tuesday on Decatur Boulevard near Desert Inn Road, Metro Police officials said.
Detectives are searching for a man who exposed himself to two children and touched one of them inside a central valley apartment, Metro Police officials said.
North Las Vegas Police are searching for a woman who robbed the U.S. Bank inside a Smith’s grocery store in North Las Vegas twice in a month’s time, authorities said.
When U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder took the stage for a speech at the National Council of La Raza convention Saturday at Mandalay Bay, the crowd rose and welcomed him with an ovation.
North Las Vegas Mayor Shari Buck will be holding a community meeting at 6 p.m. on Wednesday to discuss the current status and future of North Las Vegas.
Thirty drivers were arrested on DUI charges at two sobriety checkpoints conducted July 3-4, Metro Police officials said. Officials said the checkpoints were designed to cut down on drunken driving incidents during the celebratory holiday.
One of the victims in a Thursday night shooting in the northeast valley has died, Metro Police reported Friday afternoon. Officials said Metro Police dispatch received a call about shots being fired around 9:40 p.m. at the 6900 block on Hopkins Drive near Hollywood Boulevard and Carey Avenue.
Two people were shot after a dispute between neighbors on Thursday at the 6900 block on Hopkins Drive near Hollywood Boulevard and Carey Avenue leaving one victim in life-threatening condition, Metro Police officials said.
Clark County firefighters extinguished a fire that involved two apartment buildings at 1550 Karen Ave. at about 8:45 p.m., near Maryland Parkway and Sahara Avenue, Deputy Fire Chief Girard Page said.
British poker pro Sam Trickett’s night of celebration in Las Vegas after his runner-up finish in a World Series of Poker tournament turned sour when he says six men jumped him.
A tip from a citizen led to the arrest of four suspects with ties to a Stockton, Calif., gang in a shooting that injured four people around 4 a.m. on Thursday at East Twain Avenue and Paradise Road, said Lt. Dan Coe of the Metro Police Gang Unit.
A woman suspected of transporting drug money from Las Vegas to Southern Arizona and her passenger were arrested Wednesday on Interstate 10 south of Casa Grande, Ariz., Pinal County Sheriff’s Office officials said.
For nine minutes all eyes looked toward the dark night sky at the Green Valley Ranch resort on the Fourth of July. Children, who moments ago had been playing with sparklers and running in circles, became mesmerized. Teenagers even stopped texting.
A Las Vegas man suffered critical injuries from hitting the ground off his motorcycle just after 12:30 p.m. on Wednesday on Shawnee Avenue, near Rainbow Boulevard and Alta Drive, Metro Police officials said.
High winds and light rain have crashed early Fourth of July celebrations, but it will clear up when it matters, National Weather Service, Las Vegas branch, spokesman Brian Fuis said.
Las Vegans return after top-10 finish in famed West Coast road rally
Wednesday, July 4, 2012
For a week, Chi Pang and Diana Spencer lived in a world of Porsches, Ferraris and Lamborghinis, on the edge of the law and fueled by the constant rush of adrenaline. They drove more than 4,000 miles in a black Porsche Panamera S tattooed with the names of friends and family and with local business decals, and crowned with a giant Hello Kitty head.
A teenager playing with fireworks inside a two-story home at 10437 Mulvaney Circle, caused a fire that charred the roof and second floor and displaced a family of five on Wednesday night, Clark County public spokesman Dan Kulin said.
Metro Police officials are searching for a white male suspect in his early-to-mid 30s for a bank robbery that occurred on June 30, near Sahara Avenue and Nellis Boulevard.
A fire gutted the backyard and part of a one-story wood-framed house on Saturday, Las Vegas Fire and Rescue Public Information Officer Tim Szymanski said.
A male inmate at the Tonopah Conservation Camp escaped the facility early Saturday morning, Nevada Department of Corrections officials said. Mark Nemeth had been serving sentences for attempted burglary, grand larceny and attempting to possess a financial forgery lab.
A Las Vegas pedestrian is dead after a collision on Tropicana Avenue east of Rogers Street at approximately 11:06 p.m. on Friday, June 29, Metro Police officials said.
By the time two criminal investigators gained entrance into Elizabeth DeMaria’s hotel room on the 35th floor at the Signature at MGM Grand to arrest her on Tuesday, it was too late.
Flames engulfed a Republic Services recycling truck heading north on Interstate 15, near the Washington Avenue on-ramp, about 4:30 p.m. Friday, Nevada Highway Patrol Trooper Jeremie Elliot said.
On July 1, the North Las Vegas Fire Department will face devastation and decimation. Or not. It all depends on who is talking. Sunday is the first day the city of North Las Vegas will impose its budget cuts on the fire department as part of the city's effort to close a budget gap surpassing $30 million.
Amid the financial bleakness hanging over North Las Vegas like a storm cloud, Mayor Shari Buck is casting her eye toward 2017, when experts think the economy will be back to normal. She is confident the decisions the city has made will help it get there.
City officials say residents shouldn't experience cuts in most services
Wednesday, June 27, 2012
For 20 years Beverley Walton had a job at the North Las Vegas Detention Center, and then one day, she did not. It was June 4. Walton said she and 45 other co-workers were asked to attend a meeting with the deputy chief.
Four panels of tan flypaper turned black from a layer of bugs were propped against chairs at the North Las Vegas City Council chambers with a sign that read: “Public Nuisance.”
As soon as Metro Police Officers arrived at the east valley apartment complex to confront a woman screaming with a gun on Tuesday morning – they heard the shot, Metro officials said. Officers found the Las Vegas woman, believed to be in her 20s or 30s, dead from what preliminary investigations found to be a self-inflicted gunshot wound around 8:30 a.m. at the apartment complex in the 2700 block of East Flamingo Road.
Ever since the Mongols Motorcycle Club members rumbled into Boulder City with their tattooed bodies, low-riding motorcycles and black leather vests that declare “Mind your own business,” they have been downright pleasant.
A man who went swimming in the waters of Boulder Basin around 2:30 p.m. Saturday is missing, according to Randy Lavasseur, the Lake Mead National Recreation Area assistant chief ranger.
A fire caused $100,000 worth of smoke and heat damage to a one-story home at 1951 Sutro Lane early Saturday morning, Las Vegas Fire and Rescue officials said.
A 2002 Chevrolet 1500 pickup truck hit an unmarked Metro Police vehicle on Charleston Boulevard and Buffalo Drive on Friday night while officers were conducting a stop with a different vehicle.
A Las Vegas man wanted for a variety of felony warrants has barricaded himself inside his apartment at the Siegel Suites on Friday, Metro Police officials said.
Metro Police officials are on the search for the suspect in a business store robbery and shooting that occurred on June 4 near N. Decatur Boulevard and W. Washington Ave.
A Canadian was sentenced to 30 months in prison Wednesday for his attempt to outwit the Internal Revenue Service out of nearly $1 million in tax-refund checks, in part by trying to use a Las Vegas lawyer as an intermediary. Gaetano Fiore, 52, Montreal, pleaded guilty Jan. 23, to two felony counts of receiving stolen public money, said IRS Criminal Investigation officials in Las Vegas.
After three months of searching for two suspects in a robbery that occurred on March 18 at Marion Drive and Stewart Avenue, Metro Police officials are looking for more witnesses and new robbery victims to step forward.
Before first lady Michelle Obama fired up a crowd of more than 1,000 supporters and before she approached the podium at the Henderson Convention Center, she went to Sunrise Coffee.
Linda Kincaid stood next to her seat at the Henderson Convention Center shouting at the top of her lungs like a pep-rally conductor waiting for first lady Michelle Obama to reach the podium. “Fire it up. Ready to go,” Kincaid said at the event Tuesday. “Fire it up. Ready to go,” a portion of the 1,000 Obama supporters in attendance responded.
A Henderson man died Saturday night after a Ford F-150 collided with his Suzuki GSXR 600 motorcycle at Whitney Ranch Drive and Plain Sight Avenue, Henderson Police said.