A man police said left the scene of a fiery crash this month that led to the death of his 10-year-old relative has been charged with murder.
Katelyn Newberg
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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.
A single-vehicle rollover crash left one person dead on state Route 160 between Las Vegas and Pahrump on Wednesday, according to the Nevada Highway Patrol.
Arsenio Martinez-Lamas died about 8:20 p.m. Sunday at the Northern Nevada Correctional Center’s Regional Medical Facility, the department said in a release Tuesday.
Antoine Javell Hartwell, 39, shot Nicole L. Barker, 42, in the head before turning the gun on himself, the coroner’s office said. Hartwell’s death was ruled a suicide, and Barker’s death was ruled a homicide.
The Clark County coroner’s office on Tuesday identified three victims as 5-year-old Avi Franco, 15-year-old Arias Franco and 34-year-old Selina Rowsell. The shooter was 27-year-old Michael Franco, whose death was ruled a suicide from a self-inflicted gunshot to the head.
Friends and family gathered in Summerlin on Saturday to share memories of Mark Hinueber, a lawyer who passionately defended the First Amendment for more than four decades at the Las Vegas Review-Journal and other newspapers. He died last month at age 66.
Four people are dead after an apparent murder-suicide Thursday night in Henderson.
Crews on Thursday finished work on a water main break from two days earlier, lifting traffic restrictions at a central Las Vegas Valley intersection.
Police are asking for help identifying two men suspected in an armed robbery Wednesday night near downtown Las Vegas.
The Clark County coroner’s office has identified the 59-year-old woman who died Tuesday after being hit by a suspected impaired driver in the central Las Vegas Valley.
A fire along Paradise Road in the central valley closed the street Wednesday night, Las Vegas police said.
Las Vegas police are asking for help identifying a man suspected in an Aug. 2 shooting in downtown Las Vegas, according to a Metropolitan Police Department tweet.
The mother of a 3-year-old girl whose body was found in a duffel bag admitted to hitting, kicking and biting her daughter the day she died, a Las Vegas police arrest report shows.
The man arrested in connection with a deadly North Las Vegas shooting this month told police he shot the victim because he “disrespected him,” according to his arrest report.
Las Vegas police are asking the public’s help identifying a man suspected of a burglary spree in Summerlin on Friday.