Smoke and potentially elevated levels of ozone from a fire at Red Rock National Conservation Area prompted county officials on Sunday to issue an air quality advisory.
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Blake Apgar joined the Review-Journal as a general assignment reporter in January 2017 after graduating from the University of Minnesota. He interned at the Review-Journal in the summer of 2016, and now covers North Las Vegas and Henderson government. He was raised in Kenosha, Wisconsin.
The man arrested in a suspected DUI hit-and-run near the Strip works in the Clark County Department of Family Services.
An inmate committed from Clark County died Tuesday night at a Northern Nevada prison, corrections officials said.
The Clark County coroner’s office has identified a man who drowned late Monday in the central valley.
The Clark County coroner’s office has identified a woman who was killed Monday afternoon when she was hit by a truck in the central valley.
The Clark County coroner’s office has identified a man whose body was found in a burning car this month near Jean.
Sven Waclawski, 48, was killed on June 13 after the car he was driving crashed into a hydraulic excavator at a Southwest Gas pressure limiting station, 917 E. Horizon Ridge Parkway, according to Las Vegas police.
A man suspected of fatally shooting of Patricia Jones at a northwest valley apartment complex this month was an armed security guard, according to his Metropolitan Police Department arrest report.
Darron G. Ford, 25, is accused of fatally shooting Michael Lamar Ragland on May 27 at Siegel Suites, 4823 Boulder Highway, near East Flamingo Avenue. Ragland, 46, died at Sunrise Hospital and Medical Center.
A water main break at Mandalay Bay on Tuesday afternoon caused flooding in the resort’s south convention center, Clark County fire officials said.
A teacher’s aide told police that Melody Carter, 58, hit the 5-year-old boy repeatedly after he would not put his shoes back on, and said, “I have more of those” when the stick broke, according to her arrest report.
Casino Center Boulevard and Lewis Avenue had been closed while officers tried to convince a man to come down from the top floor of a parking garage.
Las Vegas police have identified the man suspect in the Sunday night stabbing death of another man in the central valley.
The victim, 55-year-old Jeffery Hill, was struck by a Volkswagen Beetle on May 24 near the intersection of East Flamingo Road and Burnham Avenue, police said. He died Saturday at Mountain’s Edge Hospital.
The Clark County coroner’s office has identified two women who were killed in a central valley car crash early Sunday.