It has so far been a good year for Las Vegas police, with the promotion of the department’s first woman SWAT commander and violent crime stastistics down through mid-2019.
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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.
The leaked substance was an additive in a closed boiler system at St. Rose Dominican Hospital, Siena campus, that posed no risk to the public, a Henderson fire official said.
Ryan Dashiell, speaking to Mesquite police after a plane crash last week, admitted that he “took a pull on a jug of vodka,” according to the commercial jet pilot’s arrest report.
Two thieves who took beer from a parked delivery truck earlier this month in North Las Vegas remained at-large Tuesday.
The trial of Douglas Haig, the Arizona man accused of illegally selling ammunition to the Route 91 Harvest festival gunman, has been postponed.
A suspect who triggered a standoff with police after being seen dragging a woman into a Las Vegas apartment while armed with a knife is facing three felony charges.
A speeding driver killed Friday in a northeast valley crash that left three others injured was a 31-year-old North Las Vegas resident, according to the Clark County coroner’s office.
The Clark County district attorney’s office will not charge international soccer star Cristiano Ronaldo in connection with an alleged sexual assault in 2009 in Las Vegas.
A 2-year-old North Las Vegas boy’s death in February, which prompted a police investigation, has been ruled a homicide by the Clark County coroner’s office.
Las Vegas police found the truck last week by using the owner’s anti-theft tracking protection before a 33-year-old officer wounded the suspected thief, officials said Monday.
SWAT officers took a man armed with a knife into custody Monday morning, about four hours after he was seen dragging a woman into a central Las Vegas apartment.
A 72-year-old woman who suffers from dementia and had been missing in Las Vegas since Thursday has been found, police said.
The two-person scooter veered off the road and overturned after it failed to negotiate a turn on the Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area scenic loop, Las Vegas police said.
Mitchell W. Magee, 27, was arrested Thursday on charges of reckless driving resulting in death and failure to stop at the scene of an accident after the July 6 crash.
Scott Gragson, a prominent real estate broker, was indicted Friday on multiple felonies in connection with a fatal DUI wreck.