A warm and sunny Wednesday is expected to conclude the Las Vegas Valley’s second-warmest January on record, 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 West Prep Academy eighth-grade teacher whose behavior alarmed colleagues is accused of inappropriately touching a student who wrote him a love letter, according to his arrest report.
Arizona resident Douglas Haig, whose name had not been previously released, said he sold ammunition to gunman Stephen Paddock but did not know him.
North Las Vegas resident Ernie Ubaldo Camarena, 29, died at the scene of Sunday’s crash near the intersection of West Cheyenne Avenue and North Commerce Street.
Kevin Michael Downey, 62, died Friday after going inside his burning home at 4408 Ridgecrest Drive, near Flamingo and Sandhill roads, to save his pets.
The Metropolitan Police Department identified the officer who shot a man in the central valley late Friday night as officer Bryan Davila.
A homeless man was stabbed to death in an area on the 4000 block of Paradise Road near Flamingo Road early Sunday evening. Police have not yet identified a suspect.
About 40 people scrambled from a northeast valley home as officers arrived Sunday morning to investigate reports of cockfighting, authorities said.
When Clark County firefighters arrived at the scene, they discovered a smoldering fire in an apartment and that a person found inside the apartment had died, officials said.
George Sambuca, 32, was indicted in November, according to the Justice Department. The indictment was unsealed after his arrest on Friday.
A man who was killed after his moped collided with a box truck in the central Las Vegas Valley on Wednesday has been identified by the Clark County coroner’s office.
A homeless woman is facing arson charges after authorities accused her of setting fire to a vehicle at the Las Vegas Fire Department headquarters.
An issue involving magnesium used in the manufacturing process at the plant caused the explosion, local authorities said. Two people suffered minor injuries, but did not require medical treatment, officials said.
Las Vegas police last week arrested another teen in the March 2017 slaying of woman during a purported drug deal.
Monday’s forecast high is 57 degrees, with warming to 60 on Tuesday and 61 on both Wednesday and Thursday, the weather service said. Calm winds will continue through Wednesday afternoon, it said.
