Richard Portaro was on a business trip in Tonopah when he got a 4 a.m. call in his hotel room — his 22-year-old son had been fatally shot in Las Vegas.
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An inmate who was the subject of a nationally publicized manhunt following his escape from an Arizona State Prison in Golden Valley last July was convicted and sentenced to 43 years in prison on Friday.
Las Vegas police on Friday arrested a man in connection with the slaying of a 40-year-old man this month.
An off-duty Nevada game warden who accidentally shot one more desert bighorn sheep than his tag allowed paid a $300 civil penalty and a $95 fine in a Nye County court after the state’s chief game warden enlisted the help of an independent agency to investigate the November mishap.
Local art lovers and Boulder City police are seeking the public’s help to crack the case of the giraffe that lost its head. Sometime in the past few weeks, a vandal cut the head off the 18-foot-tall metal giraffe sculpture at Reflection Center park in Boulder City.
North Las Vegas police are seeking the public’s help in identifying two men suspected of robbery and kidnapping.
A Nevada Highway Patrol sergeant, fired for sending electronic photos of his “naked and erect penis” to a co-worker, lost an appeal on June 2. But he’s not backing down.
A man was arrested Tuesday for child endangerment after a 13-year-old boy accidentally shot himself in the thigh while in a home with several unsecured weapons, the Nye County Sheriff’s Office said Thursday.
The North Las Vegas police supervisors union is suing the city in its ongoing dispute over its labor contract.
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