Apple Maps is telling drivers a portion of U.S. Highway 95 northwest of Las Vegas is closed because to construction, even though the highway is open.
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Wind speeds on New Year’s Eve could gust up to 20 mph, according to the National Weather Service.
A man was fatally stabbed late Friday in North Las Vegas.
“Just don’t do it is basically the message here,” said Metropolitan Police Department spokeswoman Laura Meltzer, adding that celebratory gunfire on New Year’s Eve is an issue in the Las Vegas Valley.
He was Steven John Howard of Pahrump, according to the agency. He was pronounced dead at Desert View Hospital in Pahrump.
Jermariun Hickman, 17, is being held at the Clark County Detention Center on one count of murder with a deadly weapon after being arrested Thursday night in Laughlin, North Las Vegas police said.
Another cold front will move through the Las Vegas Valley as the new year approaches, but the National Weather Service says “the warmth” will return soon after.
Arrest report says Rigoberto Chavez-Solorzano, 41, violently plowed into a vehicle carrying Maribel Aleman and two family members at East Lake Mead Boulevard and Palmer Street in North Las Vegas, killing her and hospitalizing them.
Clark County coroner’s office report issued almost six months after the June 28 accident concludes that 60-year-old Karen Ortiz Anderson’s cause of death was blunt force injuries due to a motor vehicle crash.
Serial murderer Samuel Little told the FBI more than a month ago that he killed a black woman in the city in 1993, but homicide investigators have so far been unable to match a victim with his account.
Nevada Highway Patrol warns that the popular ski resort and surrounding area will be swamped over the next 11 days, the mountain’s busiest time of the year.
The first reports of snow showers came in about 1 p.m. in the Summerlin area and near Lee Canyon on Mount Charleston. The flakes falling at lower elevations were quickly melting.
Callisha Lakota, 62, died of unknown causes about 6 p.m. Tuesday at the Northern Nevada Correctional Center’s medical facility in Carson City.
The Clark County coroner has identified a 41-year-old mother who was killed in a crash on Christmas Eve in North Las Vegas.
A man who was struck and killed by a car last week in northwest Las Vegas has been identified.