The Clark County coroner’s office has identified the 73-year-old Pahrump man killed Monday night during a rollover crash in the southwest Las Vegas 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.
The Nevada Department of Corrections announced on social media April 4 that inmates have begun producing hand sanitizer for medical personnel and law enforcement.
The Burning Man festival, which attracts nearly 80,000 people annually to the Northern Nevada desert, has been canceled this year due to the coronavirus pandemic.
There were 21 more deaths from COVID-19 in Clark County as of Saturday morning, according to the Southern Nevada Health District.
A man arrested this week in connection with three sexual assaults told Las Vegas police that he would arrange for associates to bring him women to have sex with in exchange for drugs.
Police say the death of Drew Max, 59, of Las Vegas was unrelated to the new coronavirus, but the coroner’s office has not yet determined a manner and cause of death.
The victim, described by police as a man in his 30s, was fatally wounded while trying to sell a computer on the 8400 block of Shady Shores Circle.
A Reno man is accused of stealing hundreds of surgical masks from a Veterans Affairs medical center, according to the U.S. attorney’s office.
As of Wednesday morning, five students and one instructor with the College of Southern Nevada had reported positive cases of COVID-19, according to the school’s website.
Due to the closure of Metro facilities during the coronavirus pandemic, registered sex offenders needing to update or change their information must do so online.
Las Vegas police are seeking possible additional victims of a 37-year-old man arrested Monday in connection with three sexual assaults.
William Welcome, 35, was charged with involuntary manslaughter after he punched another man outside a Las Vegas bar in March and the man later died.
A person was killed in a residential area near Garland Court, near Rochelle and Eastern avenues, Metropolitan Police Department homicide Lt. Ray Spencer said.
As of Saturday morning, there were 1,742 reported cases of COVID-19 in Nevada, according to the state Health and Human Services Department.
The Metropolitan Police Department and Nevada attorney general’s office say there are no plans to check people who are out in public during the coronavirus pandemic.