Nevada on Friday reported 1,280 new coronavirus cases and 40 additional deaths, according to the Department of Health and Human Services.
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The incident involved a truck and a utility pole on Sands Avenue, between Koval Lane and Paradise Road, police said.
Police investigated a bomb threat Friday morning at Foothill High School in Henderson.
The president of the Clark County Medical Society, who also is an OB-GYN, is urging all pregnant people to get the COVID-19 vaccine.
New data from the state Department of Health and Human Services shows second-straight decrease in new cases average, as hospital group sees signs the surge is slowing.
The state also recorded 1,125 new COVID-19 cases over the preceding day, and has now logged at least 1,000 cases of the disease in 10 of its last 11 daily updates.
A month and a half after Las Vegas officer Jason Swanger died of COVID-19, fellow officers escorted his 9-year-old son to his first day of fourth grade.
As a memorial service was ending for Nevada Highway Patrol trooper Micah May, two trailers in the Henderson church’s parking lot caught on fire.
Hundreds of mourners gathered in a Henderson church Friday to honor Nevada Highway Patrol trooper Micah May after his death last week. Following the memorial, another procession took May’s body to a public graveside service.
The Clark County coroner’s office has identified two women who were found dead Tuesday afternoon in an apparent murder-suicide at a hotel near the Strip.
Las Vegas police were investigating a homicide that occurred late Wednesday in the central Las Vegas Valley.
The Clark County coroner’s office has identified a woman fatally shot by her husband two weeks ago.
The Clark County coroner’s office has identified an 8-year-old boy from Georgia who was killed Monday night in a wrong-way crash northeast of the Las Vegas Valley.
A 33-year-old man died in the fatal Sunday stabbing, which stemmed from “some type of altercation,” police said.
A year after his death due to COVID-19, a memorial service was held Saturday for Metropolitan Police Department Lt. Erik Lloyd.