Former Metropolitan Police Department homicide Capt. Robert Plummer will take over as chief of the Napa Police Department in July, according to a release by Napa officials. He retired from Metro last week.
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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.
The forecast high for Monday is 107 degrees. The record for June 4 is 109, set two years ago, the weather service said.
Clark County Sheriff Joe Lombardo’s re-election campaign materials include a misleading claim about wait times for 311 calls.
The Clark County coroner’s office has identified a man who was shot to death Sunday night in the east Las Vegas Valley.
Shootings claimed the lives of three people, including a 2-year-old boy, and injured a 3-week-old infant during a violent 20-hour stretch in the Las Vegas Valley.
The Clark County coroner’s office has identified a woman who was found dead under a vehicle Tuesday night in the northwest Las Vegas Valley.
Las Vegas police are asking for the public’s help in identifying a man suspected of sexually assaulting an 11-year-old girl at gunpoint last week.
The man went into Check City, 130 N. Boulder Highway, near Lake Mead Parkway, wearing a surgical mask and was armed with a rifle, Henderson Police Department spokesman Scott Williams said. He left with an undisclosed amount of money.
Officers were called to the Siegel Suites at 4823 Boulder Highway, near East Flamingo Road, just after 8:30 p.m, Metropolitan Police Department Lt. David Gordon said.
Two people were arrested Saturday night in Arizona after a stolen car was involved in a drive-by shooting near Hoover Dam, police said.
Temperatures by midweek could reach 100 degrees before a cooling period in the Las Vegas Valley, according to the National Weather Service.
A Las Vegas judge on Thursday scheduled a June hearing for a police officer charged in the controversial death of an unarmed black man last year.
A 15-year-old boy shot his father to death and wounded his mother in a west Las Vegas home Thursday morning before being wounded when she got a gun and returned fire, according to Las Vegas police.
Las Vegas police officer Cordell Hendrex, another officer and security guards were among the first to respond to the upper floors of Mandalay Bay while a gunman opened fire on a country music festival below.
The Clark County coroner’s office has identified three of five people killed in a Sunday afternoon crash on U.S. Highway 95 about 85 miles northwest of Las Vegas.
