In 2016 through 2018, the department said there were no cooking-related fires in Las Vegas on Thanksgiving.
Alexis Egeland
Alexis Egeland covers crime for the Review-Journal. Prior to joining the team in August 2019, she covered Congress for the Arizona Republic and worked on a national investigation into the climate of Hate in America for News21. Egeland is a native of Rancho Cucamonga, Calif., and a graduate of Arizona State University's Walter Cronkite School of Journalism & Mass Communication.
A Las Vegas woman faces charges in connection with threatening letters mailed to attorneys and to her mother’s former supervisor at Planet Hollywood Resort.
A 70-year-old woman said a man in scrubs kissed her, then suffocated her until she passed out while she was visiting her husband at Henderson Hospital on Saturday night.
Clark County District Judge Douglas Herndon announced Wednesday that he is running for Nevada Supreme Court in 2020.
Ashlee Marie Abney, 26, was arrested Tuesday afternoon on charges of battery with a deadly weapon and battery on a protected person.
A man is expected to survive after police say they believe he suffered a medical episode and crashed his car into a wall.
A woman was taken into custody Tuesday afternoon after she barricaded herself in a central Las Vegas apartment for the second day in a row, police said.
A few apartments in the central Las Vegas Valley were evacuated Monday night after a woman brandished a large kitchen knife and was “acting erratic” with it, police said.
A Las Vegas man was sentenced Thursday to five years in prison on a charge of conspiracy to manufacture and distribute marijuana in Oregon and Iowa.
The Nevada Highway Patrol has identified the woman killed in the fatal two-car collision that shut down U.S. 95 for hours near Beatty on Nov. 4.
Las Vegas police released more information Monday afternoon about an officer-involved shooting in the central valley on Friday.
Cory McCormick, 31, has been placed on administrative leave while the shooting is investigated.
Wednesday’s high should drop to 61, with an 85 percent chance of rain that is expected to linger into Friday.
Las Vegas police said they believe shots were fired during a “narcotics-related transaction” near Casada Way and Torrey Pines, and that the boy fled after he was shot.
Jennifer Cleary, 48, was last seen on Sunday near Rancho Drive and Vegas Drive, police said, wearing a black skirt and a grey sweater.