Las Vegas police arrested a “wanted fugitive” in the northeast valley early Friday after he sped away from officers.
Katelyn Newberg
Katelyn joined the Las Vegas Review-Journal’s metro desk in June after graduating from the University of Florida. She previously worked with the paper in the summer of 2017 as an intern on the business desk. Before graduating college she was the editor in chief of the Independent Florida Alligator. She was born and raised in Orlando, Florida.
Las Vegas police have arrested two men in connection with a shooting late Saturday near Twain Avenue and University Center Drive that left two dead and two others injured.
Three adults and a baby were displaced following a fire that damaged two homes Wednesday afternoon in the central valley, the Las Vegas Fire Department said.
Stephen Gibson, 36, is charged with attempted murder after he allegedly shot his aunt’s boyfriend last week at a west Las Vegas home, according to his arrest report.
Henderson police were investigating a four-vehicle crash on Wednesday morning, the department said.
The Nevada Highway Patrol is investigating a fatal motorcycle crash that happened Wednesday on a U.S. Highway 95 on-ramp at Eastern Avenue.
A 60-year-old was sentenced in Las Vegas federal court on Tuesday to a year and a day in federal prison after causing about $256,000 in losses to the IRS, the Justice Department said.
The Clark County coroner’s office has identified a 31-year-old Henderson man who Las Vegas police said may have been killed in self-defense July 31.
Las Vegas police have identified two officers who shot at a man after he fired at them early Sunday in the northwest valley. No one was injured during the gunfire.
A counterprotester at a No Mask Nevada demonstration Saturday was arrested following a shoving match between him and multiple other men, the Metropolitan Police Department said.
Fifteen additional deaths from the coronavirus were reported in Nevada on Saturday, all of which were in Clark County, according to the Nevada Department of Health and Human Services.
John Foster, 60, who was unconscious for half of his time in the hospital, said there were times he wasn’t sure if he would survive the disease.
A security officer has been arrested on suspicion of murder in the fatal shooting of a man Wednesday night outside a 7-Eleven in the northeast valley, Las Vegas police said.
Two UNLV students on campus have tested positive for COVID-19 since fall classes began Monday, according to the university’s website.
Firefighters were called to the park near Tropicana Avenue and Boulder Highway, which is on Bureau of Land Management property, about 6:30 a.m. Thursday.