The 18-year-old suspect traveled to the state to meet with an underage girl he had met online and “wanted to marry,” according to the Boone County Sheriff’s Office.
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The victim was gunned down as he ran from a parked vehicle on the 3300 block of Thom Boulevard, near Rancho Drive and West Cheyenne Avenue.
North Las Vegas police found a 78-year-old woman with Alzeheimer’s disease “in good health” hours after she disappeared Friday morning.
A 34-year-old man was shot to death last weekend at a North Las Vegas apartment complex in a previously unpublicized homicide, the Las Vegas Review-Journal has learned.
Years before Northwest Academy was closed amid an ongoing child abuse investigation, officials from four Nevada communities removed their students from the facility.
An allegation of Medicaid fraud last year against Northwest Academy led state officials to temporarily suspend payments to the boarding school.
A pedestrian walking five dogs was killed early Thursday in a hit-and-run in Dayton, about 20 miles north of Carson City.
A North Las Vegas Police Department officer fired five rounds last weekend at a speeding driver, who police later learned was driving a stolen pickup.
A 35-year-old Texas man died earlier this month, days after he was struck by a vehicle while walking outside a marked crosswalk near the Las Vegas Strip.
A roommate of the victim in the homicide Monday on the 6000 block of Yellowstone Avenue was questioned and released, police said.
The Nevada Occupational Safety and Health Administration is investigating after 67-year-old Henry Hortillosa of Henderson died Friday at a construction site east of the Strip.
Las Vegas police released body camera footage Monday of a shooting last week in which an officer opened fire at a man as he was attempting to evade police.
Las Vegas police and the local rape crisis center have teamed up to provide additional advocacy services at each police station in the valley.
Chance Underwood faces two counts of open murder in the Aug. 3 shooting deaths of Timothy Allen Bailey and Harlee Andrew Deborski, both 19, in the northwest valley.
As a prosecutor on Friday morning listed the allegations against Austin Cadeaux, the 29-year-old suspect, began yelling profanities in the courtroom.