A 7-Eleven clerk who was stabbed by a trespasser pulled out a firearm and then pursued and shot the individual early Wednesday, North Las Vegas police said.
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Five of the firearms that Sylvester Mitchell sold illegally were connected to homicides, authorities say.
Las Vegas police released a grainy photo of a vehicle they said was involved in a fatal hit-and-run crash, hoping the public can help identify the driver.
“My mom didn’t deserve this,” said Mariela Amaro, daughter of Gilma Rodriguez-Walters, who was killed in the crash. “My mom had a long time left to live.”
Police are investigating a shooting in front of a restaurant in southwest Las Vegas early Monday.
Before a fire that killed six people, it had been 32 months since a downtown building had received a city fire inspection, despite a history of code violations going back more than a decade.
Clark County firefighters responded to what was described as high-level structure fire Sunday night at an apartment complex in southwest Las Vegas.
A pedestrian who was struck and killed by a vehicle in the east Las Vegas Valley on Wednesday night has been identified.
Hours after she was paroled Friday, Margaret Rudin told the Las Vegas Review-Journal she still wants to be exonerated in her husband’s 1994 shooting death.
The motorcyclist was killed Thursday morning when she was hit by a pickup truck, according to Las Vegas police.
A motorist flipped their vehicle on a Summerlin Parkway off-ramp Thursday morning.
Northbound lanes of Interstate 15 reopened Thursday afternoon after a roughly 20-hour closure caused by an officer-involved shooting of a person of interest in a California murder.
The pilot of an airplane that crashed into Gass Peak in November, killing all three occupants, made four separate turns in the minutes before hitting the mountain.
Clark County firefighters battled a two-alarm fire at a four-unit apartment building in central Las Vegas early Wednesday.
Las Vegas police say they’ve obtained video showing the suspect speeding and passing traffic on the unimproved shoulder of Tropical Parkway before a deadly December crash.
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