A 10-year-old boy was hospitalized Friday morning after he was hit by a car in southwest Las Vegas.
Rio Lacanlale
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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.
Evidence suggests that the crime scene had been staged and that Paula Davis had been “murdered somewhere else,” according to the arrest report for her ex-boyfriend.
Officials said the recent deaths of five women in the Las Vegas Valley have no known connections, despite an internet rumor of a serial killer in the valley.
Las Vegas firefighters, police and members of the community gathered outside Fire Station 5 early Tuesday to honor 9/11 victims in a tradition known as tolling the bells.
A woman awoke early Tuesday inside her apartment to find another woman on top of her “stabbing her repeatedly,” according to Las Vegas police.
The school bus transporting the junior varsity team hit “a piece of construction equipment” on Highway 160, near the Tecopa Road turnoff, school officials said.
The ring used the stolen information to counterfeit ATM and bank cards that were used to withdraw cash and purchase luxury goods in Las Vegas and in at least six states.
After driving as far as Pahrump to dispose of the body, Chuck Chaiyakul told police, he drove back to his parents’ home in Las Vegas and sealed the corpse in a metal drum.
Carmelo Gattuso exited a driveway about 5:05 p.m. on Jones Boulevard, putting his Ford Crown Victoria in the path of a northbound Volkswagen Beetle, police said.
The random victim bludgeoned to death with a sledgehammer last week at a laundromat was identified Thursday as a 72-year-old Las Vegas woman.
A woman whose body was found in a 55-gallon drum recovered late Tuesday at a Las Vegas home died of multiple gunshot wounds, according to the Clark County coroner’s office.
An opioid overdose in early July killed Malik Noshi , a former football player at Arbor View High School who went on to play for Northern Arizona University, according to state authorities.
Rudy Arco, a longtime Las Vegas resident and business owner, was shot and killed Saturday in what Texas police have called a “shooting spree” in the small town of Odessa.
Jeremiah Grant-June was arrested Friday on one count of murder with a deadly weapon and two counts of attempted robbery with a deadly weapon.
On Aug. 12, Michael Russell completed his probationary employment period with the state Department of Corrections — a feat some doubted he could accomplish.