A cool, breezy start to the week in the Las Vegas Valley will give way to above-average temperatures heading into the weekend, according to the National Weather Service.
Blake Apgar
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 Las Vegas man was arrested last week after authorities accused him of raping a teenage member of his church, police and court records show.
Federal and Utah officials have increased the reward for help in finding a poacher who killed a pregnant elk in Zion National Park this year.
Drizzly conditions and cloudy skies should clear up in the Las Vegas Valley on Friday, the weather service said. The weekend promises mostly sunny skies and breezy conditions.
Jien Jasmin Chavez Perez, 28, died after her Honda rear-ended another vehicle that was stopped at a red light at the intersection of Pecos and Russell roads, police said.
A domestic-related homicide investigation began Saturday with a cable company employee who went to the wrong apartment door, police records show.
Henderson police on Tuesday arrested a woman suspected of fleeing the scene of a fatal crash this month.
Jonathan Gomez Rosas, 22, was riding his bike north of Mel Torme Way along Sammy Davis Jr. Drive when a flatbed truck going the same direction hit his bicycle, causing it to flip, police said.
Foothill High School will have an increased police presence Wednesday after someone made an unspecified threat last week at a nearby park.
Jack William Morgan, 32, was found guilty late last year of kidnapping the woman from her Las Vegas apartment Jan. 30, 2017, then gagging her and chaining her to the floor of his van, officials said.
One person was killed when two vehicles collided Tuesday afternoon in the southeast valley.
Rainy days are ahead as another storm system heads toward the Las Vegas Valley.
Las Vegas police are asking for the public’s help in identifying a man suspected of being involved in a shooting that injured three people over the weekend.
Starting Monday, the Henderson Police Department will add patrols around intersections that have clearly marked crosswalks.
A woman called police just after 9 a.m. to say a person was dead on the 8200 block of Ocean Gate Way, near Rampart and Lake Mead boulevards.