Hope for Prisoners held a “Christmas morning” for 50 inmates and their family on Thursday night, giving the prisoners a chance to open presents with their children.
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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 Henderson Police Department on Thursday night identified the officer who shot a man Tuesday morning at the Bourbon Street Sports Bar as Andrew Avanessian.
Henderson police arrested a 44-year-old man on a murder charge Thursday in the shooting death of a 17-year-old.
Dwight Delancy, 21, faces multiple charges for firing his gun during an altercation with the off-duty officer on Tuesday afternoon. He said he fired his gun once as a warning.
Two people were taken into custody following a fiery crash involving a stolen vehicle Wednesday night at Boulder Highway and Harmon Avenue, Las Vegas police said.
One person died and four others were injured following a crash Wednesday on U.S. Highway 95 in Nye County, the Nevada Highway Patrol said.
Las Vegas police responded to Interstate 15 and Russell Road on Tuesday after a man shot at an off-duty officer, police said.
Dominic Porter was charged with attempted murder and multiple counts of domestic battery after beating a woman with a hammer in October, according to an arrest report.
A woman was arrested on suspicion of murder Saturday after she got into a fight with her ex-girlfriend’s new boyfriend, put him in a chokehold and stomped on his head, Las Vegas police said.
Lynwood Young, 32, was arrested in November on suspicion of attempting to rape a stranger as she was walking home in central Las Vegas, according to an arrest report.
North Las Vegas police say an“attempted home invasion” on Wednesday morning left a 55-year-old man dead.
Las Vegas police are searching for possible additional victims after a former nightclub host was arrested on suspicion of sexual assault.
The family of Michael Czaruk said the 36-year-old father and paramedic died of the flu on Sunday, though the Clark County coroner’s office is still investigating his death.
The death of a Clark County Detention Center inmate in mid-July was ruled a homicide, but the coroner’s office doesn’t know what exactly killed the 25-year-old.
The Nevada Highway Patrol is investigating a wrong-way crash that killed two people Thursday night on Interstate-15 near Jean.