Mild winter weather is expected to persist in the Las Vegas Valley until this weekend, when a cold front will drive temperatures down, the National Weather Service 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.
A former UNLV football player has pleaded guilty in a sex trafficking case, Nevada Attorney General Adam Laxalt announced Wednesday.
Less than six hours before Mandy Hernandez was due in court for a hearing regarding a restraining order against her ex-boyfriend, the man she sought protection from allegedly killed her friend and kidnapped her, according to public records and Las Vegas police.
Las Vegas police said a series of shootings last week, including two that left homeless men dead as they slept on the sidewalk, appear to be related.
Las Vegas police responded to a motel at 117 N. 9th St. about 4:20 a.m. Monday after a couple said their baby was having a medical crisis, police said. The baby later died at an area hospital, police said.
A homeless man who was shot dead early Friday morning as he slept in the central valley has been identified by the Clark County coroner’s office.
A Las Vegas man who was gunned down in a western valley drive-by shooting has been identified by the Clark County coroner’s office.
Four months before Eric Chu was charged with murder in his 10-month-old daughter’s January death, Clark County Department of Family Services officials were called to a hospital and the family’s Las Vegas apartment to investigate neglect allegations, public records show.
One person was shot in the central valley Thursday afternoon, Las Vegas police said.
Terran Olson-Carlisle, 25, was reported missing on March 2. Investigators obtained surveillance video from that day of two men dumping a bag into a dumpster on South Buffalo Drive that was later found to contain clothing and his blood.
Las Vegas residents Omar Garcia, 20, and Kevin Garcia, 17, were killed Tuesday after their car collided with an SUV on East Sahara Avenue at Carillo Street.
The body of Caroline Heath, 54, was discovered last week by firefighters after they extinguished the fire in the vehicle, which was parked on the 1600 block of Primrose Path, near North Rancho and Vegas drives.
The Nevada Highway Patrol announced Wednesday that it will at least double the number of troopers patrolling roads in the Las Vegas Valley over a two-week period.
Las Vegas resident Benicio Alejandro Quinones, 21, was gunned down Monday in front of a home on the 4200 block of Calimesa Street and later died at an area hospital, police said.
A homeless man who was shot to death as he slept outside a central Las Vegas swap meet Monday morning has been identified by the Clark County coroner’s office.
