The Monday night fire was caused by the homeowner using a propane torch to kill bugs in a crawl space beneath the house and accidentally igniting combustible materials.
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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 wind advisory will be in effect for the Las Vegas Valley on Sunday from 5 a.m. to 8 p.m., bringing gusts up to 50 mph, according to the National Weather Service.
The mother of a 14-year-old girl who was killed in 1995 in Idaho is spreading a message of hope after a murder suspect was arrested this year.
The Gay and Lesbian Community Center of Southern Nevada hosted an event for transgender, intersex and genderqueer people to get free makeovers Saturday afternoon.
The driver of a Toyota Tacoma, who was not wearing a seat belt, died at the scene of the crash Saturday morning, the Metropolitan Police Department said.
The woman accused of drowning her 2-year-old daughter in a bathtub last weekend told Las Vegas police she did so because she believed her husband was abusing the child.
A Sunrise Mountain High School athletic coach was fired after a man police said was a volunteer coach was arrested on suspicion of having sex with a student.
A teenage boy called 911 to report that his mother had been beaten to death with a baseball bat by his father at their west valley apartment, Las Vegas police said.
The Nevada guardsmen were injured in a rollover crash during a training exercise that killed another solider Wednesday in Fort Polk, Louisiana, the guard said.
In 2005, the Clark County coroner’s office and North Las Vegas police determined that Edwin Colon died by suicide, but his manner of death is now “undetermined.”
Cassie Smith, 20, was arrested with her boyfriend, 41-year-old Joshua Oxford, on Sept. 3 and charged with murder in the death of her 3-year-old son.
On Saturday night, one man acted as a lookout while the other demanded money from an east valley business at gunpoint, the Metropolitan Police Department said.
The Las Vegas police officer who fatally shot a man Tuesday night in the central valley has been identified.
Investigators believe the fire was “cooking related,” and no one was injured.
Four Nevada Army National Guardsmen, members of a Las Vegas company, were injured Wednesday during a training accident in Louisiana that killed another person.
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