Tyler McAninch graduated July 1 from Army basic training at Fort Sill in Oklahoma.
Local Las Vegas
Southwest resident Brian Kitchen, 32, and several other local firefighters recently returned from the cluster of fires in Arizona that broke state records and made national headlines. Other notable blazes he’s helped fight include that state’s once largest Rodeo-Chediski fire in 2002 and San Diego’s 2003 Cedar fire.
Residents warned of suspects impersonating police officers
Bob Tobin heard a loud banging at the bus door as he pulled up to a downtown corner.
You know those movies about a ragtag group of misfits who form a team in a time of crisis and, despite incredibly long odds, go on to defeat the kids from the fancy rich school, capturing a championship in the process?
Two Las Vegas police officers involved in the fatal shooting of a 23-year-old man Thursday in the northwest valley were identified Saturday as Christopher Grivas and David Hager.
A man who broke into a southeast valley apartment Saturday afternoon was fatally shot by the apartment’s resident, Las Vegas police said. Lt. Ray Steiber said four men invaded a home about 2 p.m. at Las Palomas Apartments, 4040 Boulder Highway near Desert Inn Road.
Firefighters fully contained the 29-acre Gritty Gulch wildland fire at the Nevada National Security Site and crews were expected to have the 45-acre La Madre fire in Red Rock Canyon controlled late Thursday, authorities said.