The shooting on the 1000 block of Vernon Avenue, near Rancho Drive and Washington Avenue, was reported to Las Vegas police just after 6:10 p.m., Metropolitan Police Department Lt. Grant Rogers said.
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As of 3 a.m. Wednesday the fire was about 50 percent contained. according to crews who were still working to put the blaze out.
Joshua Castellon, 26, is in custody in connection with a series of related shootings that left two homeless men dead and another two injured, Las Vegas police announced Tuesday.
Las Vegas police are searching for a woman who robbed the South Point casino cage at gunpoint Monday night.
She was hit at Lake Mead Boulevard and Palmer Street, near Pecos Road, North Las Vegas police said in a tweet. The intersection is closed while police investigate, and drivers should avoid the area.
The crash at Bonanza Road and Sloan Lane was reported just before 5 p.m., Metropolitan Police Department Lt. Grant Rogers said. One person was taken to University Medical Center, he said.
More people died in Clark County in 2017 than during any other year since at least 2001.
A man was killed Sunday afternoon in an all-terrain vehicle crash in the northeast Las Vegas Valley, police said.
A man on the FBI’s most wanted list in a 2008 Las Vegas homicide was captured in Mexico on Wednesday night, federal officials announced.
A 50-year-old man was hospitalized with critical injuries after a two-vehicle crash Thursday morning at West Charleston Boulevard and Apple Drive, near Hualapai Way, a Metropolitan Police Department spokesman said.
A loophole in a 1994 federal aviation regulation enables helicopter manufacturers to skirt a requirement to put crash-resistant fuel systems in new aircraft — including the model that crashed Saturday in the Grand Canyon, killing three people and injuring four others.
Alan Keith Baker, 42, died of a gunshot wound to the head, according to the coroner’s office.
The report will be available on the National Transportation Safety Board ’s website, agency spokesman Terry Williams said, but a full report could take between a year and a half and two years to finish.
Four people were killed Sunday when a small, home-built plane flying from Henderson crashed near a mountain town in Southern California, authorities said.
The National Weather Services expects some light showers through midweek in the Las Vegas Valley.