The Greater Las Vegas Association of Realtors reported Monday that the median sale price of a single-family home in the Las Vegas Valley hit $195,000 in May, returning to where it was in March after dropping to $192,000 in April.
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Las Vegas ranked second in the U.S. for stolen motorcycles for the second year in a row in 2013, even as the thefts continued to decline nationwide.
A man who was recently moved from a Nevada prison to a Las Vegas hospice center died on Saturday, corrections department officials say. Charles Smith was 53 when he was hospitalized late in April for what officials called a chronic medical condition. He was moved from hospital care to hospice care at the end of May.
A man and woman thought to have ambushed two Las Vegas police officers and to have killed a bystander before committing suicide left behind swastikas and told neighbors they wanted to kill police.
Before going on a shooting rampage that left five people dead, including two Las Vegas police officers and themselves, Jared and Amanda Miller displayed the classic ideological leanings of the anti-government patriot movement, according to nationally known experts who track extremist groups.
Joseph Robert Wilcox wasn’t one for the limelight. And yet the 31-year-old Las Vegan is being heralded as a hero for giving his life while trying to stop Jerad and Amanda Miller in the midst of their shooting spree in the northeast valley late Sunday morning.
The suspects who killed two police officers and a third person before killing themselves Sunday simultaneously executed the officers, according to a source with knowledge of the shooting.
On Saturday, the CiCi’s Pizza at 309 N. Nellis Blvd was a strip mall pizzeria like any other. By Monday night, it was something else — part crime scene and part memorial; the site of a shooting spree that left five dead Sunday morning and the location of a candlelight vigil for two fallen Las Vegas police officers.
Atem is one of about 30,000 “Lost Boys of South Sudan” who walked barefoot to a refugee camp in Ethiopia. There they stayed until 1991 when the government forced them out. They then walked back through South Sudan to the Kakuma Refugee Camp in Kenya, where they stayed until 2001.
Las Vegas police have made an arrest in a fatal stabbing that occurred in the central valley Monday morning.
For years, Fred Goldman was adamant that he would never rest until he had held O.J. Simpson accountable for the killings of his son Ron and Simpson’s ex-wife 20 years ago. Unsatisfied with the verdict, Goldman pursued to “punish” Simpson.
The lead plaintiff in a landmark antitrust suit against the NCAA said his goal wasn’t to get a degree, but to get two years of college experience before being drafted into the NBA.
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Keeping at-risk youth out of the juvenile justice system requires early intervention, said county officials who are making strides toward establishing an assessment center to connect children and teens with the social services they need. The assessment center would refer at-risk youth to services such as counseling, mental health programs, substance abuse treatment and emergency housing.
Sheriff Doug Gillespie said Sunday’s killing of two Las Vegas police officers in the line of duty made it an “unprecedented day” for his department. Metro had never before seen two of its officers killed in a single incident. Officers Alyn Beck, 41, and Igor Soldo, 31 were fatally shot while they ate lunch at a CiCi’s Pizza, 309 N. Nellis Boulevard, at about 11:20 a.m. Sunday. The shooters also killed a woman in a nearby Wal-Mart before committing suicide.
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