Cash-strapped North Las Vegas has been touting a $1.6 million savings by hiring bailiffs to secure the city’s municipal courts.
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The Trauma Intervention Program of Southern Nevada responded to 1,244 calls for “emotional and practical support” in 2014, up from 1,217 calls in 2013.
One of Gabriel Bristol’s first memories is of being outside a police station in Texas, standing alone in the light of a single streetlamp looking out into the darkness that surrounded him. His mother had been arrested for heroin possession and prostitution.
While traffic fatalities declined slightly in Southern Nevada in 2014, deaths rose by nearly 7 percent in the state as a whole. Data released this week showed that 284 traffic fatalities occurred on Nevada roads in 2014, an increase of 18 deaths over 2013.
One man was injured in a drive-by shooting in Henderson Wednesday night. City spokeswoman Kathleen Richards said a man and a woman were walking down the street near the intersection of Corn Street with Palm Drive, near North Boulder Highway.
Clark County issued its 1,000th marriage license to a same-sex couple Wednesday. “Congratulations Christopher Barnson and Daryl Reed on being the 1,000th same-sex couple to receive their marriage license in our great county,” County Clerk Lynn Goya said.
A Las Vegas man claims a police officer violated his civil rights in January 2013 by entering his backyard through a locked gate and fatally shooting his dog. Victor Patino, who is represented by attorneys at Potter Law Offices, made the allegations in a federal lawsuit filed Saturday in Las Vegas.
Jurors heard opening statements Wednesday in the trial of Marvin Moran, who is accused of fatally beating his wife in June 2013.
A Las Vegas judge ruled Wednesday that a jury must decide whether a man acted in self-defense when he fatally stabbed a panhandler on the Strip known as the “Pantyhose Prankster.”
A woman who was sexually assaulted and left for dead in a dumpster behind a Las Vegas Valley strip mall was able to crawl a short distance after the attack, Las Vegas police said Wednesday.
A man and a woman were found dead in what police are calling an apparent murder-suicide in the southwest valley, Las Vegas police said Wednesday.
Rags worked hard at keeping rats and mice away from the soldiers. He acted as an early-warning system for incoming shells; when he fell “belly-to-dirt,” so did the soldiers. He sniffed out wires and carried messages across enemy lines, which was very dangerous. Soon, everyone knew about Rags. He was “a giant of a dog.”
“The Threat From Within” follows a team of telekinetic teens out to stop a European research institute that plans to secretly destroy the minds of America’s youth through seemingly safe cell phones.
Throughout the valley, cities are using social media and other high-tech tools to help keep residents informed and the community safe.