All Luis Chavarin said he could remember was punching Phillip Mathews twice after an argument early Monday over the music on the jukebox at the Loose Caboose tavern, according to a Metro Police arrest report.
A Las Vegas attorney pleaded guilty Monday for his role in multiple schemes to defraud the IRS, defraud his clients, and fraudulently gain control of condominium homeowners’ associations, according to the FBI.
The flu virus continues to spread throughout Clark County, and health officials now say it has claimed the life of a pediatric patient – the 12th flu-related death in Southern Nevada this season.
Martial arts school performs ancient Chinese tradition around Las Vegas to bring good luck
Sunday, Feb. 2, 2014
Martial artists at the Lohan School of Shaolin performed the authentic lion dance at Kung Fu Thai & Chinese restaurant on the third day of Chinese New Year, a Chinese tradition typically performed around the Chinese New Year to grant a business, home or couple good luck in the new lunar cycle.
After county commissioners for a third time earlier this month rejected a tax increase to put more officers on the street, Sheriff Doug Gillespie said he is prepared to move on.
A California man pleaded guilty today to federal charges that involved transporting a 16-year-old girl from San Jose, Calif., to Las Vegas to work as a prostitute.
A Southern Nevada police task force has toppled a sophisticated, four-house marijuana grow operation, seizing 61.8 pounds of marijuana and 2,264 plants worth a combined $5.6 million, authorities said.
A sport utility vehicle collided with a Regional Transportation Commission bus and a utility box today causing a traffic light outage at Eastern Avenue and Harmon Boulevard.
fter a monthlong manhunt, authorities today announced an arrest in a shooting that left a Las Vegas man dead. Jessie Charles Washington Jr., 43, was arrested Monday and is being held without bond in the Clark County Detention Center. He faces three charges, including murder, in Las Vegas Township Justice Court. Washington is accused in the Dec. 22 shooting death of Anthony Walker, 27, at Walker’s home on Evening Rain Avenue.
Law enforcement officials throughout the Las Vegas Valley will be cruising the highway and streets over Super Bowl weekend targeting impaired drivers to keep the roadways safe.
Henderson Police responded about 11 a.m. Saturday to reports of the man’s daughter crying outside a home at 631 Karen Way, near Van Wagenen Street and Major Avenue.
Clark County Fire and North Las Vegas Fire arrived at 4155 E. Carey Ave. and extinguished the flames. They then discovered two bodies inside the charred remains of the old recreational vehicle next to the home.
Army Sgt. Christopher Bales stood in the living room of his new home as he stroked his beard, trying not to cry. “Is this stuff mine?” he asked the Pulte Homes contractors.
A man who remained barricaded for about three and a half hours this morning while police tried to get him to come out has surrendered without further resistance, Metro Police report.
Nellis Air Force Base authorities found Theresa Rivera’s body in the garage of her home with a blanket covering her entire body and injuries to her face. A night earlier, Rivera and her husband, Tech Sgt. Rickey L. Massey Jr., had been involved in a fight at their on-base house in the 4400 block of Kevil Circle. It started when Massey snatched his wife’s phone to get her attention and escalated into a physical altercation. It ended with a fall in the kitchen and Massey realizing his wife was bleeding and not moving.
A Las Vegas man suspected of choking and killing his frail, elderly roommate, whom he allegedly beat and bullied on a regular basis, is due in court today to face a murder charge.
A man threatening to jump from the Cheyenne Avenue overpass onto U.S. 95 today prompted police to temporarily shut down the freeway and part of Cheyenne Avenue.
Water flooded two southbound lanes of Decatur Boulevard at Washington Avenue today after a Las Vegas contractor struck an abandoned water line with a drill.
A 25-year-old man was arrested today after he allegedly set a fire in his house while four adults and two children were home, Las Vegas Fire & Rescue spokesman Tim Szymanski said.
The driver killed Sunday in a rollover crash on 215 Beltway was identified as 32-year-old Maurice Andreas Rucker of Santa Rosa, Calif., Clark County Coroner’s Office officials said.
A vacant Las Vegas home undergoing renovations for its next residents caught fire today. Las Vegas Fire & Rescue responded about 6:50 a.m. to reports of dark smoke coming out of a two-story home at 5612 Avenida Silla, near Jones Boulevard and Cheyenne Avenue in northwest Las Vegas.
Witnesses indicated that a man driving a BMW sedan had been going faster than 100 mph when he tried to exit at Decatur Boulevard and hit the landscaping rocks, Trooper Jeremie Elliott said.
A Ukrainian man extradited from Croatia to Las Vegas pleaded not guilty in federal court to a charge related to his alleged role in a worldwide online scheme to steal personal and financial information.
A 49-year-old man opened fire Tuesday in his North Las Vegas home, wounding his daughter and wife before turning the gun on himself at the end of a six-hour standoff with police, authorities said.
For six months, Jason Greniger held Sheena Herschbach captive at a Mesquite motel, where he threatened and beat her, until a Facebook post changed everything, Mesquite Police reported.