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Las Vegas police were investigating an apparent double-slaying Monday morning. Police said a 9-year-old boy went to Hoggard Elementary School about 8:45 a.m. and told school authorities his mother and sister were dead at home.
CARSON CITY — A fired state pilot filed a lawsuit Friday that accuses the Department of Transportation and its director, Susan Martinovich, of defying a court order to reinstate him with back pay.
James Keck felt the sting of rejection after a coworker denied his romantic advances. On Thursday afternoon, less than an hour before Las Vegas police said he walked through the doors of a southwest valley bar carrying a 12-gauge shotgun, Keck, 42, left an angry voice mail for the woman whose affection he desired.
A woman acquitted of murder for fatally shooting her ex-husband 20 years ago in Florida has been indicted on three felonies for shooting her son last summer.
A 49-year-old North Las Vegas man is facing a felony attempted murder charge after he was accused of hacking his girlfriend’s head with a machete and severing her arms at the wrist before cutting his own neck.