A man shot twice today in a northeast Las Vegas neighborhood has died. Metro Police responded just before 6 a.m. to reports of a shooting in the 1600 block of White Skies Court.
A man shot and killed in the parking lot of a Las Vegas strip club on Saturday was identified as Antonio Darrnell Logan, 28, of Las Vegas, Clark County Coroner’s Office officials said.
A man was in critical condition and five other people were injured Sunday in a four-vehicle crash that included a Regional Transportation Commission bus.
It’s hard not to notice Congregation Ner Tamid’s newest environmental project. Stretched across a gravel lot next to the temple is a football field’s length of metallic solar panels soaking in the sun. The panels are visible to any driver passing the temple on the 215 Beltway or Valle Verde Drive. It’s the largest solar energy project for a nonprofit in Henderson, and the congregation’s message to passers-by is that the future is here.
Richard Magdayo Dahan signed in at the front desk at Metro’s Northwest Area Command and waited 20 minutes for his name to be called so that he could confess to killing his wife, police said.
A driver rear-ended a Metro Police motorcycle about midnight Wednesday on the Las Vegas Strip while allegedly driving under the influence, Metro spokesman Larry Hadfield said.
Caesars Entertainment Corp. is playing host to a job fair next week to fill more than 550 hospitality jobs at the Linq. The Linq is a $550 million retail, entertainment and dining district under construction on the Las Vegas Strip. It includes the Las Vegas High Roller observation wheel and will create 1,500 jobs in Las Vegas, Caesar’s officials said. The job fair, scheduled from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Jan. 18 in the Sunset Ballroom at Flamingo Las Vegas, includes employers from businesses at the Linq and other Caesars developments.
A three-vehicle collision snarled traffic today in the eastbound lanes of the 215 Beltway near Pecos Road as fire trucks and ambulances blocked the main travel lanes.
A Metro Police officer shot a dog today after it attacked two people near downtown Las Vegas, police said. Police received a call about 10:15 a.m. from a man claiming a pit bull-type dog attacked him near C Street and Monroe Avenue, said Officer Laura Meltzer, a Metro spokeswoman. While on the phone, the man reported the dog had begun attacking a woman.
A 14-year-old boy suffered minor injuries today when he failed to notice a truck turning onto Durango Drive and walked into the side of it, according to the Nevada Highway Patrol.
Metro Police are investigating a suspicious death today after a man was found dead in an alley in downtown Las Vegas. Employees arriving to work about 6:30 a.m. found the body in an alley near a business in the 300 block of Seventh Street, near Bridger Avenue.
North Las Vegas Police warn students returning to school today to be on the lookout for two men in a minivan suspected of possibly attempting to kidnap a girl on her way to class.
Evidence and witnesses indicate that a Chevy truck was speeding south on Eastern Avenue when the driver swerved off the west side of the road south of Harris Avenue, police said.
A bag of mesquite wood caught fire Wednesday at Lupo Restaurant in Mandalay Bay, causing smoke and water damage to the kitchen. Fire investigators ruled the fire accidental.
New Year's Eve revelers in Las Vegas stayed out of trouble this year as they rang in 2014 with what Metro Police called the most orderly celebration in recent history.
Jay Bergeon used to love Thanksgiving. He laughs, even today, as he recalls the many turkey-eating competitions with his grandfather that typically ended with his grandmother chasing them with a spoon. But something changed in him during those 15 months that he spent deployed in southwest Baghdad in 2005-06.
A man Metro Police said was shot and killed after a heated argument with another man Sunday morning has been identified as 29-year-old Robert Edward Holland III, of Las Vegas.
Metro Police officers were trying to arrest a suicidal man Monday night near UNLV, but they wound up shooting him after he allegedly reached for a shotgun, according to a police report.
A man killed in a shooting that injured two other people in a strip mall parking lot on Sunday has been identified as Darren Lawerance, 21, of Las Vegas, according to Clark County Coroner’s Office officials.
Metro Police responded about 4 a.m. to reports of gunfire coming from a business complex in the 5100 block of West Spring Mountain Road, near Decatur Boulevard.
A woman was arrested today on a count of arson after she set her boyfriend’s clothes on fire in a bathtub and the blaze spread, causing an estimated $15,000 damage, Clark County Fire Department officials said.
Plumber Mark Larkin knows better than most people the amount of damage a frozen pipe can do to a home in the Las Vegas Valley. Once several years ago, Larkin, who owns Larkin Plumbing, remembered a customer whose home became iced over when a pipe in the attic burst while the family was away for winter. Another home transformed into an ice rink after a bursting sprinkler pipe shot water through the homeowner’s door.
The dispatch call crackled over the North Las Vegas firefighters’ radios at 9:25 a.m. There is a car fire on the third floor of the Fiesta Rancho parking garage. In reality, there is no fire, only six 3-foot-tall orange traffic cones representing fire for a training drill. But to the firefighters, it’s real.