The Mohave County medical examiner’s office has identified a man who possibly drowned Monday at Lake Mohave in Arizona.
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.
A developer on Tuesday agreed to pay more than $8 million for land near the Raiders’ future corporate headquarters and practice facility in Henderson.
The Metropolitan Police Department will pay $500,000 to the mother of a man who died in police custody in a case that spurred changes in the department’s Taser policy.
A man died in a possible drowning Monday afternoon at Lake Mohave, National Park Service officials said in a news release.
Wayne Pulsipher was taken into custody Monday afternoon after a man reported that he and his 18-year-old son were shot at in a desert area.
Fire officials were called to the Interstate 15 offramp onto Martin Luther King Boulevard at about 4:10 p.m., Las Vegas Fire Department spokesman Tim Szymanski said.
Las Vegas resident Michael Anthony Garcia, 40, was shot Thursday at a home on the 4100 block of Oakhill Avenue, near U.S. Highway 95 and East Harmon Avenue, police said.
The sweltering forecast prompted the weather service to issue an excessive heat warning from Tuesday through Thursday. A high of 111 degrees is forecast for Tuesday, followed by a high of 113 on Wednesday, according to the weather service.
A man died Sunday after a fist fight in the central valley, Las Vegas police said.
A woman died of smoke inhalation last week in an “extremely rare” flameless fire, which slowly smoldered and filled her house with smoke, the Las Vegas Fire Department said.
A grand jury reviewing a manslaughter case against a Las Vegas police officer has been asked to consider a report from a research group with a pro-police reputation.
One churchgoer was killed and another was injured Sunday when a man opened fire in a Mormon church in Northern Nevada, officials said.
The hottest day so far this year could hit the Las Vegas Valley this week, the National Weather Service said.
The gunshot that would end Adriann Gallegos’ life was fired nearly 16 years before the Las Vegas woman’s death.
Las Vegas police are investigating a body found Thursday afternoon inside a home in the northwest valley.