Michael Russell had completed three stints in California and Nevada prisons before he was 35, unaware that later in life, he’d one day make history as the first convicted felon to be employed with the Nevada Department of Corrections.
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.
A 19-vehicle crash Wednesday morning in a foggy mountain pass shut down a portion of Interstate 15 in Southern California.
A winter weather advisory in the Spring Mountains and Sheep Range has been issued for Wednesday night as the chances for rain ramp back up in the Las Vegas Valley.
A 17-year-old boy has been identified as a suspect in a shooting last week that left a 16-year-old boy dead in North Las Vegas.
Richard Allen Peterson was riding a 2016 Yamaha motorcycle south on Haynes Drive on Monday when he ran the stop sign at the intersection of East Basic Road and hit a Regional Transportation Commission bus, Henderson police said.
Candelaria Guadalupe Alegria, 49, was pronounced dead University Medical Center of blunt force head injuries after the crash at East Lake Mead Boulevard and Lincoln Road. Two others were injured, one seriously.
The thick fog that blanketed the Las Vegas Valley on Tuesday morning, prompting a dense fog advisory and causing delays at McCarran International Airport, could return Wednesday.
More than 100 friends and family gathered Saturday to remember 18-year-old Kwavon’tia Gregory Thomas of Las Vegas, who was fatally shot in North Las Vegas on Christmas Eve.
Of the more than 4,300 deaths investigated by the Clark County coroner’s office in 2018, 36 were ruled undetermined, meaning the manner of death could not be nailed down.
A bicyclist died early Saturday after he was struck by a suspected impaired motorcyclist and thrown into a vehicle east of downtown Las Vegas.
The previously forecast wet weekend in the Las Vegas Valley has shifted to dry weather conditions, according to the National Weather Service.
Krystal Whipple, the sole suspect in the killing of a nail salon manager over a $35 manicure, was arrested early Friday in Arizona.
A 75-year-old man died Thursday night from injuries he suffered last week after being hit by a vehicle while trying to cross a busy east Las Vegas roadway.
Friday’s 60-degree high temperature paired with increasing clouds was the first of two back-to-back storm systems in the valley, according to the National Weather Service.
Kayla Biron, 25, is suspected of opening fire with a shotgun during an argument with a man about 3:35 p.m. Thursday in an alleyway at 217 W. New York Ave., between Industrial Road and Fairfield Avenue, police said.