The Clark County coroner’s office has identified a woman who was killed in a suspected DUI hit-and-run near the Strip early Sunday.
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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.
A woman was killed Monday afternoon when she was hit by a Dodge truck in the east valley, Las Vegas police said.
The suspect in a string of robberies was shot on Thursday after he ignored commands and drove his vehicle toward officers who were trying to arrest him, body cam footage shown at a briefing Monday shows.
Potentially dangerous heat is in the forecast for the end of the work week in the Las Vegas Valley, the National Weather Service said.
Henderson police on Saturday arrested two people in a monthslong string of salon burglaries, the department said in a release.
The National Park Service is investigating reports of a possible drowning at Lake Mead National Recreation Area, officials said Sunday.
After a weekend with highs in the 90s, temperatures will steadily climb through the Friday, the National Weather Service said.
Jimmy Leroy Matthews, 40, was shot Wednesday morning on the 2800 block of Hermosa Street by a homeowner who spotted him and another man trying to enter his back window, police say.
The release of Oct. 1 gunman Stephen Paddock’s assets will take at least a year to complete, an attorney said Thursday.
Fatemeh Pourvahedi, 77, was crossing Decatur Boulevard outside a crosswalk near Sahara Avenue on Sept. 6 when she was hit by a white SUV, police said. She was hospitalized in critical condition and died Dec. 30.
Police were called at 11 a.m. to the shooting in the 2800 block of Hermosa Street, near East Sahara Avenue and Maryland Parkway, a Metropolitan Police Department spokesman said.
A man died in a fiery crash early Wednesday in Henderson, Las Vegas police said.
Clark County Sheriff Joe Lombardo will serve a second term as the county’s top law enforcement officer.
The Clark County coroner’s office has identified the man killed Monday night after his motorcycle collided with a pickup truck in the east valley.
A former actor on the Disney sitcom “That’s So Raven” is facing drug charges after he was arrested Monday in Las Vegas, records show.