The Clark County coroner’s office on Tuesday identified the man found dead in a sleeping bag Friday in the east valley, and has ruled his death a homicide.
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The alleged operators of a group home “assumed positions of caregiving” with the residents, according to a Las Vegas police report.
Four suspects in the August 2018 fatal shooting of a 26-year-old man at Craig Ranch Regional Park plead not guilty to murder and robbery charges in District Court last week.
One person suffered moderate burns after attempting to use a hose to put out a motorcycle that was on fire in the garage of an east valley home Friday night.
While the Alienstock festival continued Friday night, one driver collided with a cow on state Route 375 between Rachel and Hiko, the Nevada Highway Patrol said.
An arrest report describes the “deplorable conditions” that Las Vegas police found at an unlicensed group home while issuing a search warrant on Sept. 12.
A U.S. Navy member arrested in Japan is accused of raping a 13-year-old girl in North Las Vegas last year, according to an arrest report released Thursday.
A U.S. Navy member who was arrested in Japan was charged with sexual assault of a minor and booked into the Clark County Detention Center on Wednesday, officials announced.
A man is in critical condition Wednesday afternoon after crashing into a light pole near Las Vegas Boulevard North and Evans Avenue in North Las Vegas, police said.
A fire caused “heavy” damage to a one-story home in the west valley that neighbors reported squatters coming and going from, the Las Vegas Fire Department said.
Las Vegas police are asking for help finding a woman suspected of pepper spraying someone while robbing a business on the 3000 block of South Maryland Parkway.
Family and friends gathered outside SoBe Ice Arena on Tuesday night to celebrate Monet Garcia, a 12-year-old ice skater who died with her father Friday in a fiery crash.
A 22-year-old man who was fatally struck by a car last week near a northwest valley middle school died by suicide, the Clark County coroner’s office said.
A Metropolitan Police Department officer was arrested after a barricade situation Monday night in the far west valley, police said Tuesday afternoon.
On Saturday night, the family of John McCarthy identified the 59-year-old San Diego resident as the second victim of last week’s fatal plane crash in Henderson.