Crime
Alyssa Otremba, a 15-year-old Arbor View freshman, walked to school Friday evening to borrow a geometry book from a friend. She sent a text message to her mother about 6:30 p.m. that said she would be home in 30 minutes. That was the last time her mother heard from her.
A suspect has been arrested in the slaying of 15-year-old Alyssa Otremba, whose burned body was found in a northwest valley vacant lot, Las Vegas police said Monday night.
Food enthusiasts have been enrolling in culinary school in growing numbers, lured by dreams of working as gourmet chefs or opening their own restaurants. For many graduates, however, those dreams have turned into financial nightmares, as they struggle to pay off hefty student loans and find work in a cutthroat industry known for its long hours and low pay.
SCORE is a police task force dedicated to ridding the valley of a budding problem — marijuana grow houses, which have tripled in the valley in the last four years.
Robert Weidenfeld has become increasingly frustrated that local and federal law enforcement agents are shutting down the dispensaries he and other medical marijuana users depend on.
Federal prosecutors are moving to consolidate all of the cases under one judge in the massive investigation into fraud and corruption at homeowners associations.
A federal judge said he needs more information before deciding whether to unseal documents in a case filed by a security team that protects the family of Las Vegas Sands Corp. Chairman Sheldon Adelson.
Nancy Quon and William Ronald Webb pleaded not guilty Thursday to conspiracy and insurance fraud charges.
They were charged in a nine-count indictment stemming from a suspicious fire at Quon’s Rhodes Ranch home and from what authorities alleged was another suicide plot, obtaining an illegal drug the couple thought was undetectable.
A recent Wall Street Journal poll of leading economists put the probability of the United States going into recession over the next 12 months at 63 percent. Conventional wisdom is that the Federal Reserve Bank will continue raising interest rates to combat stubborn high inflation, thereby slowing the economy and causing gross domestic product to […]
Adolfo Orozco-Garcia, the former owner of the Alpine Motel Apartments, has reached a plea deal with prosecutors in the deadliest residential fire in Las Vegas history.
A Metropolitan Police Department officer arrested Wednesday pointed a gun at his wife and a man she had developed a relationship with amid her separation from her husband, according to an arrest report.
The Henderson Police Department released body camera footage depicting the moments before a sergeant shot a man who police said struck the sergeant with his vehicle.
Gina Lopez was indicted on burglary and drug charges in connection with the death of a 68-year-old woman whose body was found in a mobile home freezer last year.
