Las Vegas police are searching for a suspect in a hit-and-run crash that critically injured a 53-year-old pedestrian Friday night.
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 motorcyclist was killed Friday evening in a crash, marking the 99th traffic fatality investigated by Las Vegas police this year.
An armed man suspected in a violent robbery was killed by Henderson police early Saturday after leading officers on a short foot chase.
Temperatures for the rest of Life is Beautiful weekend will be above-normal, according to the National Weather Service.
A 62-year-old man was left in critical condition following a crash Friday night in the central Las Vegas Valley.
Four people are dead after an apparent murder-suicide Thursday night in Henderson.
The remains of a 62-year-old man whose suspicious disappearance last October prompted a Las Vegas police homicide investigation have been found in a desert area in Arizona.
A man who police believe was speeding before fatally crashing his motorcycle Wednesday has been identified.
The heightened security detail includes covert operations such as an increase in plainclothes officers inside and outside of the festival grounds, strike teams and snipers, according to Deputy Chief Andy Walsh.
No one was injured in a crash involving a school bus Wednesday morning near downtown Las Vegas, police said.
The mayor of a coastal North Carolina town honored a 16-person team of water rescue specialists from the Las Vegas Valley with a key to the city before the unit moved to its next assignment in Kinston, North Carolina.
It will be dry and sunny but cooler in the Las Vegas Valley this week, according to the National Weather Service.
Olympic swimming prospect Zane Grothe returned Saturday to Henderson to host two swim clinics alongside Boulder City-Henderson Heatwave coach Mike Polk, his mentor and former coach.
Four people were displaced by a house fire Friday night near downtown Las Vegas.
The Las Vegas Valley will remain warm, breezy and dry this week, according to the National Weather Service.