Cory Iascone’s mother had all but given up hope that police would make an arrest in her son’s 2007 shooting death. Last week, Las Vegas police arrested a suspect.
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A veteran captain will oversee the Metropolitan Police Department’s traffic bureau after the previous head was relieved of duty and then transferred to another division.
A spokeswoman said Metropolitan Police Department Capt. Nick Farese, who recently was relieved of duty with pay, has returned to work in a different role.
An excessive heat warning in the Las Vegas Valley has been extended through Thursday before temperatures dip near normal over the weekend, according to the National Weather Service.
A man stands accused of attempted murder after another man was stabbed in the chest with a screwdriver last month in an east valley apartment complex, according to a Metropolitan Police Department arrest report.
Jarrell Washington was denied bail at a Wednesday hearing, and he has another bail hearing scheduled for Friday, according to court records.
A family of five and their two dogs were displaced from their west valley home after a fire Monday afternoon. One person was burned and a fire investigator injured an ankle.
Four people were injured Sunday afternoon in a crash in the west valley, Las Vegas police said. One of the four people hospitalized suffered life-threatening injuries.
Police want help finding a gold sedan that fled a North Las Vegas intersection Sunday morning after critically injuring a woman in a crash.
Local authorities are warning Las Vegas Valley residents of a group of people using stolen credit card information to purchase gasoline in bulk for the purpose of reselling it.
A 16-year-old boy accused of murder in a shooting last week in Henderson has been identified. Henderson Justice Court and booking records link Tahj Simeus to the homicide case.
A 32-year-old man accused of murder in his father’s shooting death was formally charged in North Las Vegas Justice Court at an arraignment hearing Wednesday morning.
A man on the run from authorities for several months was recently found in Mexico, the U.S. Marshals Service said.
A defrocked priest put out a Craigslist ad seeking “young and good looking men” to wrestle. A 25-year-old man who responded would ultimately become a murder suspect in his death.
North Las Vegas police found evidence from suspect Michael Jamerson Jr.’s cellphone of an internet search for “how do you find out youre a suspect in a murder.”