Las Vegas police need the public’s help in identifying and locating a man suspected in an armed robbery early Monday at a gas station.
Rio Lacanlale
Reporter
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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 Clark County coroner has identified the 10-month-old boy who died while in the care of a man now charged in the Las Vegas baby’s death.
A Las Vegas police homicide investigation was closed after the Clark County coroner’s office determined the July death of a man following a fistfight was an accidental drug overdose.
Earnest Frederick Symes, 52, was riding on a 2008 Harley-Davidson west on Blue Diamond Road near South Decatur Boulevard just before 4:35 p.m. Friday when he was struck by a 2014 Lexus IS350 that was changing lanes.
A 62-year-old motorcyclist who died Saturday evening after falling from his bike on a Las Vegas highway died of natural causes, the Clark County coroner’s office has determined.
Tony Lewis Traylor, 55, was declared dead shortly after 6:30 a.m. Friday at Summerlin Hospital Medical Center. The Clark County coroner’s office has not yet determined the cause of death.
Jocelyn Hoffman had gotten little sleep the night before, arriving home about midnight after a full day of visiting east Las Vegas neighborhoods and encouraging people to register to vote.
Temperatures this week in Las Vegas will hover below normal but should rise as the weekend approaches, according to the National Weather Service.
A baby boy hospitalized with injuries consistent with abuse in September died two days later, and now his mother’s boyfriend is charged with murder, the Las Vegas Review-Journal has learned.
A crash that killed a motorcyclist Wednesday afternoon happened after a vehicle made a lane change, Las Vegas police have determined.
Mostly sunny skies and below normal temperatures are in the Las Vegas Valley’s five-day weather forecast.
Nevada has no rules against massage therapists working on minors without supervision, but a Las Vegas police spokesman said parents should insist on being present.
The officers exchanged gunfire with a man identified Friday as 21-year-old Kenneth Ryan Busse Jr. after he crashed his car about 7:15 a.m. Wednesday near South Rainbow Boulevard and Gary Avenue. then fired at least once at them.
Amy McDermott was arrested Friday and booked into the Clark County Detention Center in connection with the death of Fadila Popovic of Las Vegas, who died Thursday when she was struck by a vehicle on East St. Louis Avenue. Police originally identified the driver as Amy McDermont.
About 45 to 50 people were pepper sprayed Thursday when school police used the agent to break up a large racially motivated fight at a central Las Vegas Valley high school. Four students were arrested, police said.