Las Vegas police are asking for help locating suspects in a string of burglaries targeting new, unoccupied homes across the valley.
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Katelyn joined the Las Vegas Review-Journal’s metro desk in June after graduating from the University of Florida. She previously worked with the paper in the summer of 2017 as an intern on the business desk. Before graduating college she was the editor in chief of the Independent Florida Alligator. She was born and raised in Orlando, Florida.
There were 716 new coronavirus cases reported in Nevada on Friday, along with nine additional deaths, according to the Department of Health and Human Services.
No injuries were reported following a helicopter crash Friday morning in Pahrump, the Nye County Sheriff’s Office said.
According to Department of Health and Human Services’ data, 655 additional cases of the coronavirus were reported in Nevada on Thursday, along with seven more deaths.
Las Vegas police on Thursday morning were searching for a person who fired into an occupied car from a four-door sedan in central Las Vegas.
Two men were hospitalized, one with a “serious” wound, following a stabbing Thursday morning near Nellis Boulevard and Vegas Valley Drive, police said.
Nevada saw its largest single-day increase in coronavirus-related deaths in more than a month on Wednesday, with 17 reported. State officials also reported 479 new cases of COVID-19
A 19-year-old man charged with attempted murder allegedly shot his girlfriend last week after she tried to break up with him, according to an arrest report.
Las Vegas police last week arrested a 48-year-old woman after she threatened her boyfriend with a machete and chased him to a convenience store, an arrest report said.
The Metropolitan Police Department on Wednesday identified the officer who shot at a man who first fired at police early Monday in the east valley.
Nevada Southern Detention Center on Tuesday confirmed an employee has died from “potential COVID-19 related issues,” days after news of an inmate death due to the coronavirus.
The Clark County coroner’s office has identified a man who was fatally stabbed late Sunday in downtown Las Vegas.
Nevada reported 487 additional coronavirus cases on Tuesday, along with 10 more deaths, state data shows.
Shane Loyd, 43, was being held at the Clark County Detention Center in connection with the shooting on the 3500 block of Villa Knolls North Drive, near Pecos Road and Tropicana Avenue.
There were 806 additional cases reported on Saturday, along with two more deaths, according to the Department of Health and Human Services’ coronavirus website.