The Las Vegas Valley this week could hit a triple-digit high for the first time in 2018, according to the National Weather Service.
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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 power outage near UNLV on Tuesday evening left hundreds of people without power, according to NV Energy.
A man arrested after a barricade inside of a Henderson residence Tuesday had been on the run from law enforcement for more than 10 years, officials said.
Tommie C. Burnside Jr., 38, was fatally shot inside the room at Motel 6, 5058 Dean Martin Drive, after refusing to give up his money during the April 9 attempted robbery, according to a Metropolitan Police Department warrant.
One person was hospitalized after a shooting in the central valley Tuesday afternoon, Las Vegas police said.
An inmate at a Northern Nevada state prison died last week, prison officials announced Tuesday.
A man was arrested after a Friday afternoon crash that killed a woman in the northwest Las Vegas Valley, the Nevada Highway Patrol said.
Tuesday shows a forecast high of 69 degrees, breezes and a 40 percent chance of rain, according to the weather service. The chance for rain will decrease to 30 percent Wednesday when the valley will see a forecast high of 68.
Lower-than-average temperatures and chances for showers and thunderstorms are in the forecast for the Las Vegas Valley through midweek, according to the National Weather Service.
A Metropolitan Police Department sergeant was demoted last year after the controversial death of an unarmed black man on the Strip. He is fighting to get his position back.
Until the Oldham County Sheriff’s Office took suspected Las Vegas killer Anthony Wrobel into custody, deputies had no idea he was a wanted murder suspect, said Taner Blackburn, the deputy who arrested him.
The small airplane that crashed on a suburban Phoenix golf course this month banked on its left side before it dived into the ground and burs into flames, according to a preliminary report released by federal investigators.
Runners taking part in the 19th annual Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Run are bearing batons with the names of two who died in the line of duty — National Park Service ranger Thomas “TK” Brown and Metropolitan Police Department
Las Vegas police on Tuesday arrested a man suspected of shooting another man to death in the central valley last week.
A ceremony is set for 7:30 a.m. at Police Memorial Park, 3250 Metro Academy Way, before the Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Run starts at 8.