Pending ratification from the County Commission, the Clark County Fire Department deputy chief will take over as the department’s chief in February, the county announced Friday.
Katelyn Newberg
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.
Las Vegas police believe a man’s death was a homicide after his body was found outside a vacant home Thursday afternoon in the east valley.
Antoine Gorum was fatally stabbed Nov. 5 during an argument with a man who allegedly sold someone “bad meth” that turned out to be bath salts, according to an arrest report.
Juan Soto, 22, allegedly used Snapchat to contact teenage girls, ask them for nude pictures and then extorted them, according to two Henderson Police Department arrest reports.
Warm weather in the Las Vegas Valley is expected to continue with sunny skies until a storm system from Southern California brings cooler conditions and chances for rain next week.
Dominic Borjas-Flynn ordered Marco Alvizo shot in October because the other man said he was a member of a different gang, according to an arrest warrant.
Artist Katy Boynton on Saturday night dedicated her sculpture depicting a giant steel heart to those affected by the Route 91 Harvest Festival mass shooting on Oct. 1, 2017.
A 73-year-old woman who went missing Monday morning was found by a good Samaritan on Saturday nearly 4 miles south of where she was last seen.
A Las Vegas woman was found dead Thursday in a home near Los Angeles after her son shot her and the family dog during what police said was a murder-suicide.
Blue Diamond Road was closed in both directions Friday night after a two-vehicle crash that critically injured on person, the Nevada Highway Patrol said.
A woman was struck and killed by a car while crossing the street Friday evening in downtown Las Vegas, police said.
A father and daughter were arrested in California after allegedly kidnapping a woman out of North Las Vegas, sexually assaulting her and dumping her in the desert, officials said.
Boulder City police arrested two men after finding about 800 marijuana plants weighing about 360 pounds inside a building on Thursday night, officials announced Friday.
Henderson police on Thursday released a graphic 911 call and body camera footage from an October police shooting.
O.J. Simpson filed a lawsuit Thursday alleging The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas employees defamed him by telling TMZ he was kicked off the property for being belligerent.