Warm spring temperatures are expected to continue this week through the Las Vegas Valley until a cold front moves in midweek, according to the National Weather Service.
Briana Erickson
Reporter: Homeless and veterans issues
Email: berickson@reviewjournal.com
Phone: 702-387-5244
Briana Erickson covers homeless and veterans’ issues for the Review-Journal. A proud “Florida Woman” living in the desert, she centers her reporting around people living in the shadows.
Before joining the Review-Journal in 2017, the University of Florida graduate wrote for the North Central Florida NPR affiliate and the South Florida Sun Sentinel. She was named College Journalist of the Year by the Society of Professional Journalists.
A Las Vegas doctor accused of sexually assaulting a woman in 2012 has pleaded guilty to a lesser charge of battery with substantial bodily harm.
Alyssa Taylor’s voice, smooth and powerful as she recited Sam Cooke’s 1964 classic, reverberated through a crowd of about 100 who gathered to commemorate the 50th anniversary of King’s assassination April 4, 1968.
The 5-ton bronze statue, unveiled Jan. 20, 2001, by Martin Luther King III and sculptor Tina Allen, has turned into much more than a focal point in recent years.
A man prosecutors say idolized the Route 91 Harvest festival gunman will be released into the care of a nonprofit group home, a judge ruled Wednesday.
Arguments for a new trial for a former Air Force technical sergeant convicted of involuntary manslaughter are speculative, state prosecutors wrote in an opposing motion filed Monday.
A former Air Force technical sergeant who was convicted of involuntary manslaughter in his wife’s shooting death wants a new trial, according to a motion filed Friday.
Colton Lochhead started his career at the Las Vegas Review-Journal in 2012 as a crime intern and student at UNLV. Five years later, he’s taking a new assignment as Carson City bureau chief for the state’s largest paper.
A man injured Saturday when his all-terrain vehicle rolled over in northeastern Clark County was hoisted out by Las Vegas police’s new H145 helicopter, according to a tweet from Sheriff Joseph Lombardo.
A woman died in the east Las Vegas Valley on Saturday afternoon and her boyfriend was taken into custody, according to Las Vegas Metropolitan Police.
Miriam Lujan, who Sue Ann Cornwell and her sister helped protect during the Oct. 1 shooting, brought her now 4-month-old baby boy to meet Cornwell at the Las Vegas Community Healing Garden.
Nearing the end of her last school year as emissary for the Jewish Agency for Israel and as Israel fellow at UNLV, Rebecca Avera is ready to go back to Israel to share with the other Israelis what she has learned.
Three days after being convicted of involuntary manslaughter in the death of his wife, a former Air Force technical sergeant was ordered to be released.
A disbarred Las Vegas attorney was sentenced Tuesday to between two and five years in prison for scamming people into investing thousands of dollars in a fake medical marijuana company.
A decade ago, Snickers just might have been the world’s most famous cocker spaniel. In his first nine months, he had survived a shipwreck only to be left to fend for himself on an island. Enter then-Summerlin resident Jack Joslin, who gave Snickers his forever home.
