No one was injured after a fire at a Strip hotel prompted evacuations to at least three floors of the resort late Saturday morning, fire officials said.
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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.
Light sprinkles and intermittent showers are possible Saturday evening after gusts kicked up dusts in the morning, according to the National Weather Service.
An inmate who walked away from a cleanup crew last week in the northwest Las Vegas Valley is back in custody, authorities said.
The 29-year-old suspect is accused of fatally shooting the unidentified man, who police said may have been testing door handles in a motel parking lot on the 2200 block of Las Vegas Boulevard South.
The robbery happened about 6:30 p.m. Sunday at 1370 W. Lake Mead Blvd., near North Martin Luther King Boulevard, Las Vegas police said.
The manhunt for a Nevada corrections officer suspected of killing his ex-girlfriend last weekend ended Tuesday night when he was found dead in a small Idaho town.
The killing of a 25-year-old man at a car wash that led to a violent shootout between two suspects and Las Vegas police last week may have been gang-related, records show.
Las Vegas police are looking for a man suspected of robbing a Summerlin business near Charleston Boulevard and Town Center Drive on Tuesday afternoon.
A massive Northern Nevada wildfire that began Saturday night east of Elko has scorched at least 1,200 acres, officials said. The blaze, which has taken on the name Silver State Fire, was about 8 percent contained as of 12:45 p.m.
The man suspected of killing his children’s mother inside their southeast valley home Saturday has been identified as a state correctional officer, Las Vegas police confirmed Sunday. The suspect, Christopher Gerard Caggiano, remained at large Sunday.
The week ahead in the Las Vegas Valley will be hot and sticky, according to the National Weather Service.
Las Vegas homicide detectives are investigating a woman’s death Saturday morning in the southeast valley. Two young children called 911 to report their mother’s death, police said.
A deadly domestic dispute at an extended stay hotel early Friday ended when a woman was pushed down a flight of stairs, Las Vegas police said.
The Clark County coroner has named the woman who died Thursday when her truck ran off the road and down an embankment 60 miles outside of Las Vegas.
A man who was killed early Sunday outside an off-Strip nightclub after a fight had escalated has been identified by the Clark County coroner.