The scene of people in need lining up to enjoy a holiday dinner repeated itself throughout the day in the Las Vegas Valley.
Glenn Puit
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 state listed a 19.7 percent test positivity rate over the last 14 days, which is a slight decline from the 19.9 percent reported Thursday.
Police were called to the 500 block of East Sahara Avenue, near Paradise Road.
The often deadly dilemma of wrong-way drivers has persisted in the Las Vegas Valley for years.
The shooting early Thursday occurred as a resident of the apartment complex on the 5400 block of Mountain Vista Street was accosted as he returned from the gym, police said.
Police said the beating was captured on video surveillance. The victim suffered a broken nose, a broken jaw, lacerations and bruising.
One occurred during a robbery attempt, while the other happened when three men renewed a prior dispute, police say.
Las Vegas police were searching Wednesday for a woman seen in surveillance video reaching into her purse in the resort’s lobby, inadvertently causing a firearm to discharge.
The man is charged with 14 felonies including multiple counts of lewdness with a child and preparing pornography with a minor, court records show.
A man fired 19 shots at uniformed officers from a 9mm handgun, police said Tuesday, describing how one officer exchanged gunfire with the suspect in the central valley.
Police say a Las Vegas infant who died in September under suspicious circumstances had a potentially lethal amount of fentanyl in his system.
Clark County firefighters responded to a fire in a home in central Las Vegas Tuesday morning — the second blaze reported in the same neighborhood within a matter of hours.
Las Vegas firefighters were responding to a structure fire that was impacting traffic on a central Las Vegas thoroughfare early Tuesday.
Clark County Undersheriff Kevin McMahill said there is a lot to be proud of as he looks back on a nearly 28-year career with the Metropolitan Police Department.
John Jaffey, the 3-year-old boy killed last week when his mother pulled the trigger of her handgun thinking it was unloaded, is remembered as a “fun, energetic, funny kid.”