A man sought in the 2011 robbery of gambling chips from a pai gow table at the Rio has been arrested by the FBI in Los Angeles.
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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.
An investigation into the downing of a Nye County cellphone tower has found no evidence linking the vandalism to conspiracy theory-driven attacks on communications infrastructure, but authorities aren’t ruling it out.
A Henderson man has been charged with repeatedly downloading and distributing child pornography.
The Nevada Highway Patrol said it responded to three wrong-way crashes in a four-day stretch last week on Las Vegas Valley roads.
A private underwater search firm has located the USS Nevada some 65 nautical miles southwest of Pearl Harbor and more than 15,400 feet below the Pacific Ocean’s surface.
Police said the shooting occurred about 7:20 p.m. Sunday at an apartment complex in the 6500 block of Boulder Highway, near Russell Road.
Henderson firefighters responded around 11 a.m. and found a large amount of smoke coming up from a storm drain, a city spokeswoman said.
The Clark County coroner’s office has identified the 24-year-old man killed Thursday morning in a two-vehicle crash in the southwest valley.
Court records show Granville Coleman, 38, is accused of 20 felonies, including counts of lewdness with a child, sexual assault of a victim under 14, kidnapping and child abuse.
A pedestrian was struck and killed by an SUV early Friday in the east Las Vegas Valley, and police said the driver fled the scene.
A house was damaged by fire and three people were displaced in the northwest Las Vegas Valley early Friday morning.
The FBI is assisting the Nye County Sheriff’s Office in what was described as a joint terrorism task force.
A 2015 Honda Fit was northbound on Fort Apache and approaching Russell when it “failed to decrease speed” and rear-ended a 2013 Dodge Grand Caravan at the intersection.
Capt. David Boruchowitz said Thursday that preliminary information indicates the person who was shot was attacking “someone with an ax.”
Henderson police used social media to help identify and arrest a suspect in the February shooting of a man wounded during an early morning transaction over a watch.
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