Two North Las Vegas middle school students were arrested Thursday after allegedly bringing a BB gun onto campus, according to the Clark County School District Police Department.
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Formal charges were filed Friday morning against a former Desert Oasis High School student who authorities said planned an attack against the Las Vegas school.
Douglas Jeffries, 47, of North Las Vegas was killed Thursday night after his moped rolled over and slid into a sedan in the southeast valley.
A male student was arrested Thursday at Chaparral High School on charges including robbery and assault — both with a deadly weapon.
A fight that left one person with a gash on the arm caused a large police presence midday Thursday just northeast of downtown Las Vegas, according to police.
All six shots fired by SWAT officers at an attempted robbery suspect who pointed a weapon at police following an hourslong standoff struck the suspect, police said Thursday.
One of two people detained Wednesday morning, when Las Vegas police were investigating reports of armed men, was arrested on a weapons offense.
A 63-year-old pedestrian was critically injured Wednesday night after he was struck by a suspected DUI driver in the western Las Vegas Valley.
A victim who was shot and killed late Monday in a central Las Vegas neighborhood as he ran from a robber was a 59-year-old man, the Clark County coroner’s office said.
A Las Vegas officer shot at a “pit bull style” dog after it charged at police Wednesday morning as they investigated reports of two armed men at a business complex in the Spring Valley area.
In response to the threats against Desert Oasis High School, both Las Vegas and school police added extra patrols Wednesday on and around the campus.
The death was reported just after 7:45 a.m. near West Owens Avenue and Stocker Street.
He was Michael Lopez of Lake Havasu City, Arizona, which is about 70 miles south of Laughlin, the coroner’s office said Wednesday afternoon.
At 7:23 p.m. on Aug. 5, a California man checked into Las Vegas on Facebook. Within about 15 minutes, police suspect he was shot multiple times in a road rage incident.
“So far we have not heard from anybody who has specifically seen our balloon,” National Weather Service meteorologist Ashley Wolf said on Tuesday.