Las Vegas police said Saturday that the officer who shot and killed a man during a traffic stop Wednesday night is a sergeant.
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.
A 46-year-old man is accused of sending multiple videos to a minor that showed him sexually assaulting a girl. Las Vegas police suspect there are more victims.
A Las Vegas police officer was arrested Thursday after an investigation into whether he was “involved in trafficking narcotics,” police said Friday.
The Clark County coroner’s office has identified the 83-year-old man killed Tuesday in a rollover crash near Dean Martin Drive and West Wigwam Avenue.
The Nevada Highway Patrol is searching for a dark red or maroon mid-2000s model SUV that was involved in a hit-and-run crash Thursday night in the east Las Vegas Valley.
Henderson police still are investigating the January death of an infant after the Clark County coroner’s office couldn’t determine how the baby died.
The Metropolitan Police Department is reopening the buildings to the public beginning Tuesday, with new safety measures to prevent the spread of the coronavirus.
It’s been an anxious time for Nevada retail business owners, waiting for the green light to reopen their shops and start making money during the statewide pandemic-related shutdown.
A local health expert advised against taking an over-the-counter heartburn medication to treat COVID-19 as news broke this week of a clinical trial regarding the medicine.
The Nevada Highway Patrol identified a woman killed Monday night after being hit by a tractor-trailer in the northwest valley as an 18-year-old from Las Vegas.
A music teacher at B. Mahlon Brown Academy of International Studies was arrested this month after he made two students feel “scared and harassed,” according to an arrest report for Jason Markel.
Fight for Nevada, a political group that advocates for Gov. Steve Sisolak’s recall, organized a Las Vegas protest Saturday attended by about 400 people amid the coronavirus pandemic.
According to data from the Southern Nevada Health District, there are now 3,570 cases of the virus in the county and 174 deaths as of Saturday morning.
Wayne Allyn Root, a former Review-Journal columnist and conservative radio host, held a protest on Friday where about 980 cars drove down the Strip to demand businesses reopen.
Las Vegas police have identified the man shot and killed by officers after he pointed a shotgun toward them during an attempted carjacking on Tuesday.