A Las Vegas couple who prosecutors said collected more than $300,000 in federal retirement benefits were sentenced Wednesday to 21 months in prison.
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The family of Tina Tintor will hold a public funeral service Thursday for the 23-year-old killed in a Nov. 2 car crash involving former Raiders wide receiver Henry Ruggs.
Las Vegas police say two witnesses saw a pickup truck driver swerve his truck at a motorcyclist who had an affair with his wife in central Las Vegas on Sunday morning.
Scott Bradford Yates, 33, wrote to the youth saying “be careful if you feel they under covers” and “don’t talk about sex ever only spending time,” police said in his arrest report.
A western Las Vegas roadway was closed for more than three hours early Tuesday as Las Vegas police responded to a report of a man who had fired gunshots during a domestic dispute.
The family of a Las Vegas man who died in August said the U.S. Postal Service lost most of his cremated remains in the mail.
Ava Blige, 30, is accused of extorting an unidentified Las Vegas businessman by threatening to publicly reveal details of their personal relationship.
Las Vegas firefighters were battling a fire at a vacant apartment building in downtown Las Vegas early Tuesday.
A shooting in central Las Vegas on Monday afternoon left a person fighting for their life, police said.
A woman was struck by a train in central Las Vegas and hospitalized Monday afternoon.
A toddler was seriously injured in a hit-and-run on Halloween night, but a Las Vegas police spokesman said the crash was “not trick-or-treat related.”
The center said hackers accessed a business server and encrypted data over the Labor Day weekend but have not made a ransom demand to unlock the data.
A woman has been charged with extorting millions from a wealthy man in Las Vegas by threatening to expose photos and secretly recorded conversations, records show.
“This facility will be designed to enable training in a true urban setting,” the Las Vegas police foundation stated in a recent request for millions in taxpayer money.
An Army veteran who spent a year in Afghanistan was shot while walking his dogs early Wednesday in east Las Vegas.
