A blaze in an apparently vacant two-story home at 7430 Scottish Castle Ave., near West Warm Springs Road and South Buffalo Drive, early Tuesday was quickly extinguished. The reptilian residents were found unharmed inside.
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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.
A woman who Las Vegas police identified as a homicide suspect nearly three weeks ago was taken into custody Monday, jail records show.
Antwon Perkins, a former corrections officer accused in at least two abduction and sexual assault cases involving minors, threatened to kill his most recent victim’s parents if she reported the assault, according to his arrest report.
Antonio Andres Torred De Leon, 23, has been identified as the suspect who Las Vegas police shot at on Sunday after he allegedly intruded in a southwest valley home and attacked the homeowner.
Two storms are headed toward Las Vegas and are expected to bring increased chances of rain to the valley and snow to the mountains later this week, according to the National Weather Service.
Since December, 75 percent of the homicides in North Las Vegas have occurred in a roughly 2-square-mile area in the southern part of the city, the Las Vegas Review-Journal has found.
Federal workers affected by the partial government shutdown and their families enjoyed food and fun at the Open Up for Those Shut Down picnic held Saturday at Sunset Park.
A rollover crash on northbound Interstate 15 in the central Las Vegas Valley shut down multiple lanes of the highway, causing major traffic delays for about two hours Saturday.
Antwon Perkins, the former state corrections officer suspected of a Thursday abduction of a middle school student, is facing four felony charges, including sexual assault, court records show.
The recent warming trend in the Las Vegas area could continue through the end of next week, according to the National Weather Service.
A suspected DUI driver, who police said changed clothes after abandoning his vehicle, is facing a murder charge in a hit-and-run crash that killed a bicyclist Friday afternoon near the Strip, jail records show.
At least three juveniles and one adult were detained by Las Vegas police on Friday afternoon after a fight outside a central valley high school that has recently experienced racial tensions.
Las Vegas police are investigating a deadly hit-and-run crash Friday afternoon involving a bicyclist who was struck by a vehicle near Flamingo Road and Tuscany Casino Drive.
Maya R. Boney could not be revived when paramedics and police responded to a home on the 4600 block of Eugene Avenue on Thursday after she was reported to be not breathing.
The measures at Herron Elementary School and Von Tobel and Jeffers middle schools were triggered by nearby police activity involving what was originally reported as a home invasion.