About 5:10 p.m., a hiker reported seeing a body between mile markers 9 and 11 on Kyle Canyon Road, Las Vegas police said.
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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.
Two people were killed Sunday in a two-vehicle crash in the western Las Vegas Valley, police said.
The 65-year-old driver of the SUV and the driver who rear-ended him were hospitalized in critical condition, police said. The SUV’s driver has died, police said.
Freddie Johnson, 61, was riding his moped south on Boulder Highway, near Russell Road, on Feb. 10 when he hit the back of a stopped garbage truck and flipped over, police said.
Las Vegas resident Vincent Michael Knapp, 50, died Sunday after an accident in an area south of Apex and east of Las Vegas Boulevard North, according to police.
A homeless man who was stabbed to death in the south central valley late last month has been identified as Michael Lyndon Patty, 55.
Rene Espinoza Flores of Dinuba, California, was shot Tuesday after he got into an argument on the 1000 block of Vernon Avenue, near Rancho Drive and Washington Avenue. Police have not yet identified a suspect.
A woman who died Sunday in Las Vegas after suffering injuries in a car crash late last week has been identified as 74-year-old Rose Cebular of Pennsylvania.
A Las Vegas man who was critically injured Feb. 15 in a two-vehicle crash in the west valley has died.
Lionel Douglass remembers standing on a bluff the evening of Feb. 10, quietly admiring the Grand Canyon like he had done so many times before. Then came the roar of the flames and the screams.
A sightseeing helicopter operated by a Boulder City-based tour company made at least two 360-degree turns before crashing in the Grand Canyon on Feb. 10, according to a preliminary report released Wednesday by the National Transportation Safety Board.
The shooting on the 1000 block of Vernon Avenue, near Rancho Drive and Washington Avenue, was reported to Las Vegas police just after 6:10 p.m., Metropolitan Police Department Lt. Grant Rogers said.
As of 3 a.m. Wednesday the fire was about 50 percent contained. according to crews who were still working to put the blaze out.
Joshua Castellon, 26, is in custody in connection with a series of related shootings that left two homeless men dead and another two injured, Las Vegas police announced Tuesday.
Las Vegas police are searching for a woman who robbed the South Point casino cage at gunpoint Monday night.
