Meager voter turnout totals for the primary election might have broken Clark County’s 2008 all-time low turnout record of 14.76 percent, but it was too soon to tell late Tuesday night because of an incomplete report from one polling site.
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Las Vegas Valley businesses have collected tens of thousands of dollars for the families of two police officers and a Wal-Mart shopper slain Sunday in a married couple’s shooting rampage.
Jerad Miller didn’t die on his own terms after all, the Review-Journal has learned. It was a Las Vegas police officer — not Amanda Miller, his wife — who fired the shot that ended the life of the 31-year-old cop killer, according to an official with knowledge of the case.
Las Vegas police are investigating a death at the MGM Grand. An MGM spokesman said the worker fell from the third floor of the conference center Tuesday.
Starting on Sunday, many profile photos were changed to a picture of a Metro badge with a black bar across it to show support for those killed in Sunday’s ambush. Some people posted their thoughts and prayers to Facebook. Here are some of the messages
Several pets were rescued but two cats died in a house fire early Tuesday morning.
The man killed in a Monday morning stabbing was identified Tuesday by the Clark County Coroner’s office.
A four-vehicle crash that closed a lane of Interstate 15 at Washington Avenue Tuesday morning has been cleared.
At least two people were injured in a Tuesday morning, seven-vehicle pileup in the southeast valley.
The Greater Las Vegas Association of Realtors reported Monday that the median sale price of a single-family home in the Las Vegas Valley hit $195,000 in May, returning to where it was in March after dropping to $192,000 in April.
Las Vegas ranked second in the U.S. for stolen motorcycles for the second year in a row in 2013, even as the thefts continued to decline nationwide.
A man who was recently moved from a Nevada prison to a Las Vegas hospice center died on Saturday, corrections department officials say. Charles Smith was 53 when he was hospitalized late in April for what officials called a chronic medical condition. He was moved from hospital care to hospice care at the end of May.
A man and woman thought to have ambushed two Las Vegas police officers and to have killed a bystander before committing suicide left behind swastikas and told neighbors they wanted to kill police.
Before going on a shooting rampage that left five people dead, including two Las Vegas police officers and themselves, Jared and Amanda Miller displayed the classic ideological leanings of the anti-government patriot movement, according to nationally known experts who track extremist groups.
Joseph Robert Wilcox wasn’t one for the limelight. And yet the 31-year-old Las Vegan is being heralded as a hero for giving his life while trying to stop Jerad and Amanda Miller in the midst of their shooting spree in the northeast valley late Sunday morning.
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