For a second consecutive day, a peaceful Las Vegas demonstration to protest the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis police custody turned confrontational and chaotic.
Glenn Puit
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Glenn Puit has worked as a journalist for 27 years. He is a winner of the national Sigma Delta Chi award for public service journalism from the Society of Professional Journalists. He has worked at newspapers in Nevada, Oklahoma, Michigan, New York and Kentucky.
Las Vegas police recently seized drugs, $53,000 in cash and two guns while serving a search warrant at a northwest Las Vegas home.
A tractor-trailer driver was injured Friday morning in a Nye County crash that closed U.S. Highway 95 in both directions.
The agency was notified April 24 of nine incidents in which motorists said their vehicles were struck by rocks on U.S. Highway 95 near the Torrey Pines Drive overpass.
Nurses at a hospital in Las Vegas held a protest Thursday morning over what they say are planned layoffs and pay cuts by the hospital’s owner.
A woman walking her dogs in Summerlin on Sunday had to fend off a transient who attempted to kill her pets, police said.
A man killed Friday night after he was struck by two cars in a hit-and-run incident the east Las Vegas Valley has been identified as a 66-year-old Las Vegas man.
A man killed in a motorcycle crash Monday morning in western Las Vegas has been identified as a Las Vegas Valley physician.
A 90-year-old man who police say was stabbed Tuesday night by his 86-year-old wife at an assisted living home in the Las Vegas Valley was critically injured in the attack.
A North Las Vegas woman has been arrested on suspicion of trafficking a youth for the purposes of prostitution, police said.
Las Vegas police are seeking the public’s help in identifying four people who robbed at a business May 11.
Nye County authorities were trying to determine what caused a large structure fire early Wednesday.
A 74-year-old registered sex offender has been charged with sexually assaulting a child in Henderson, police said.
Authorities are trying to determine what killed a motorist who was found unresponsive Saturday following a minor collision in Primm.
Police said it appears that a woman who fatally shot her husband Sunday night at a Las Vegas Valley apartment acted in self-defense.
