“The pandemic is making an already very bad situation monumentally worse,” said Derek Price, CEO of Desert Hope Treatment Center.
Rio Lacanlale
Reporter
Email: rlacanlale@reviewjournal.com
Phone: (702) 383-0381
Rio Lacanlale, whose work for the Review-Journal ranges from crime reports to video storytelling, joined the newspaper in October 2016. Before that, the UNLV broadcast journalism graduate contributed to newsrooms in central Italy and Washington, D.C. Rio is also a passionate traveler who enjoys living out of a backpack for months at a time.
Charles Bush was killed by Las Vegas police three decades after the Civil Rights Movement and three decades before the Black Lives Matter movement. What’s changed — and what hasn’t — in that time?
COVID-19 has infected at least 40 percent of inmates at the Nye County Detention Center in Pahrump, county and federal data shows.
A Las Vegas man charged last week in a sweeping federal indictment against members and associates of the MS-13 gang will be released pending trial, a judge ruled Friday.
Capt. David Boruchowitz, who oversees jail operations for the Nye County Sheriff’s Office, said that the respiratory illness had come on quickly in recent weeks.
Nevada Highway Patrol Sgt. Benjamin Michael Jenkins’ life, cut short at just 47, was defined by a serious devotion to public service.
Las Vegas, Henderson and North Las Vegas police officials said officers will educate the public on the benefits of wearing facial coverings.
An animal abuse case against a Pahrump man accused of drilling a hole in a desert tortoise’s shell could go before a jury, the Nye County district attorney’s office announced Monday.
“There’s no question he hasn’t had any treatment or medication since a week before he was arrested,” defense attorney Kirsty Pickering said.
Las Vegas police officer Shay Mikalonis was handcuffing a protester near Circus Circus. Edgar Samaniego was checked into a nearby motel. Several miles away, protester Jorge Gomez ran from a swarm of officers.
A man suspected of shooting a Las Vegas police officer during a Black Lives Matter protest is identified in jail and court records as 20-year-old Edgar Samaniego.
For a second consecutive day, a peaceful Las Vegas demonstration to protest the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis police custody turned confrontational and chaotic.
A long-haul truck driver from Las Vegas documented his life on the road for more than three months as he transported essential goods during the coronavirus pandemic.
Nevada law enforcement leaders on Thursday distanced their agencies from the actions of a Minneapolis police officer involved in the death of an unarmed black man.
The award from Nevada Women’s Philanthropy comes at a time when calls to SafeNest’s 24-hour domestic violence hotline have skyrocketed amid the COVID-19 pandemic.