Sheila Mansapit was hospitalized with life-threatening injuries after an Oct. 20 crash near the Strip. Las Vegas police were notified on her death on Monday.
Blake Apgar
Blake Apgar joined the Review-Journal as a general assignment reporter in January 2017 after graduating from the University of Minnesota. He interned at the Review-Journal in the summer of 2016, and now covers North Las Vegas and Henderson government. He was raised in Kenosha, Wisconsin.
Officials are recommending approval of the settlement of Fernando Sauceda’s 2011 death to save money on litigation and avoid “any potential risk of an adverse verdict.”
The officer who shot a man on Satuday was involved in another police shooting in September 2018. He joined the Henderson Police Department in January 2017.
Joseph Conway, 50, died Friday in the hospice unit of the Northern Nevada Correctional Center in Carson City. He was serving 10 years to life.
A man set fire to a Buddhist temple and a home Sunday night before apparently killing himself, North Las Vegas police said.
The Clark County coroner’s office has identified the 17-year-old boy who was found shot to death last week behind a commercial property on Sunset Road.
If approved by council members Wednesday, the payment would be the second settlement since October for a fatal dog shooting by North Las Vegas police.
Henderson Police Department recruits used to train at a regional, multi-agency academy. The department’s first class of its own began in June, and graduated Wednesday.
The Bureau of Land Management approved an order that will set aside land for Nellis Air Force Base to maintain safety buffers from potentially dangerous areas.
Ward 1 Councilman Isaac Barron was first elected to the North Las Vegas City Council in 2013. He intends run for the Clark County Commission in District D.
Former Henderson Police Chief LaTesha Watson claims in a complaint with a state commission that the city discriminated against her because she is a black woman.
City Manager Ryann Juden will get to spend millions of dollars how he sees fit on upgrading North Las Vegas’ jail ahead of its reopening next summer.
A downtown Henderson man wants to build a multimillion-dollar housing development in a neighborhood of World War II-era homes.
The city is going on a hiring spree to staff the jail it plans to reopen next year. Entry-level corrections officers will start out making more than $53,000.
The man who fatally shot a Las Vegas casino executive and wounded another during a company picnic last year was sentenced Thursday.