One person was killed after driving the wrong way on northbound Interstate 15 early Tuesday near downtown Las Vegas.
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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.
The death of a 6-year-old boy in an October house fire has been ruled a homicide and his mother’s death classified as a suicide.
Police say David Bacon, 24, of Henderson died when his 2008 Honda motorcycle struck the rear of a pickup truck that was eastbound on Warm Springs Road on Wednesday.
A teen shot to death Saturday while confronting a truck thief has been identified as Kevin Soriano, 17, of North Las Vegas.
Gregory Akers’ wife, Valeriya Slyzko, and mother-in-law also died when the aircraft crashed on Gass Peak north of Las Vegas on Tuesday, according to Akers’ cousin.
Firefighters were battling a guest house fire in the northwest valley early Monday.
A retired Las Vegas police lieutenant has helped start a national nonprofit called The Wounded Blue to offer peer support for officers who are suffering.
The woman captured the top prize on a quarter Wheel of Fortune game.
One person was shot when gunfire erupted in front of a crowded shopping complex in northwest Las Vegas late Friday afternoon, Las Vegas police said.
A man who is a fugitive from another state has been arrested in the case of a man found stabbed to death a week ago in the far northeast Las Vegas Valley.
The National Weather Service said Saturday’s high temperature is projected to be 48 degrees with a low of 33 degrees. That forecasted high temperature is just off the record low high of 47 degrees set in 2006.
Prosecutors have charged at least seven motorists accused of causing deadly crashes with murder since 2017. Nevada’s highest court has declined to end the practice for now.
The National Transportation and Safety Board has launched an investigation into the crash, but recovery efforts are likely to be delayed by weather.
Las Vegas police are asking for the public’s help in identifying a trio of suspects who robbed a convenience store early Monday in the central valley.
Some guests at Circus Circus were evacuated from their rooms Monday after a man with a firearm barricaded himself in a room of the hotel-casino, according to Las Vegas police.