A Las Vegas judge on Thursday scheduled a June hearing for a police officer charged in the controversial death of an unarmed black man last year.
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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 15-year-old boy shot his father to death and wounded his mother in a west Las Vegas home Thursday morning before being wounded when she got a gun and returned fire, according to Las Vegas police.
Las Vegas police officer Cordell Hendrex, another officer and security guards were among the first to respond to the upper floors of Mandalay Bay while a gunman opened fire on a country music festival below.
The Clark County coroner’s office has identified three of five people killed in a Sunday afternoon crash on U.S. Highway 95 about 85 miles northwest of Las Vegas.
The Henderson City Council on Tuesday unanimously approved a budget for the 2019 fiscal year that includes money for more public safety jobs and planning for a new fire station.
Mostly sunny skies and temperatures in the 90s are expected in the Las Vegas Valley this week, before a weekend storm system brings clouds and cooler conditions, the National Weather Service said.
“It was a mistake, and I’m human, and I ask for your forgiveness,” she said in a video on the Nye County Sheriff’s Office Facebook page.
A man charged with terrorizing a Las Vegas mall last week had threatened to shoot up a shoe store after he was turned down for a job, according to his arrest report.
After the Knights punched their ticket to the Stanley Cup Final on Sunday, “Conference Champions” T-shirts at the team’s Summerlin store sold out in about a half-hour.
Five people were killed and one person was injured Sunday afternoon in a three-vehicle crash about 85 miles northwest of Las Vegas, according to the Nevada Highway Patrol.
Leslie McGourty, 48, was arrested at Bonanza High School on Wednesday after officers saw threatening text messages she had sent to a friend. Police said the threats were not directed at the school.
The Clark County coroner’s office has identified the two people who were killed when a suspected drunk driver rear-ended their car.
A special prosecutor will handle the DUI case of a Las Vegas attorney who commonly defends drunken driving suspects.
A warm and gusty Wednesday is in store for the Las Vegas Valley, according to the National Weather Service.
Las Vegas police officer Ondre Wills told a shovel-wielding woman to drop the item for more than a minute before he shot her seven times Saturday night, according to law enforcement officials and body camera footage.