Nevada Army Guard Staff Sgt. David Gallagher, 51, died Tuesday after an M1 Abrams tank rolled over during a training exercises at Fort Irwin, California.
Max Michor
Before moving to general assignment, Max covered all things violent and weird after dark in Las Vegas. He still does more or less the same thing, just in the daylight now. Max was born and raised in northwest Vegas valley and studied at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, where he held multiple positions at what is now the Scarlet and Gray Free Press. He worked at a comic shop for six years and regrets every minute of it. Max joined the Review-Journal as an intern in 2016 and began working full-time in 2017.
The weather service has issued an excessive heat watch that will go into effect Tuesday at 10 a.m. and will last through 8 p.m. Wednesday.
A relative of an unarmed man who was shot and killed by an off-duty security guard last year is suing the guard’s employer and the motel where the shooting occurred.
The coroner’s office said Antoine Daejuan Young Jr. died of a single gunshot wound during a shooting that left two teens injured last week.
Police said a pair of brothers caught a man they didn’t know, identified as 26-year-old Balith Fard Swangin, inside their home on the 4700 block of Marnell Drive.
The 39-year-old woman who died last week in a suspected DUI crash that led to the arrest of an ex-Las Vegas mayor’s grandson has been identified by the Clark County coroner’s office.
The first triple-digit high of the year in the Las Vegas Valley is quickly approaching, but temperatures are expected to drop after the valley hits 100 degrees.
Crews responded to the scene and put the fire out before 4 a.m.
Officers responded to a domestic violence call about 7:45 a.m. on the 9000 block of West Russell Road.
The detectives were investigating the robberies when they found two suspects in a vehicle at a Sinclair station at Covington Cross and North Town Center drives.
Temperatures will rise steadily over the next few days, weather service meteorologist Barry Pierce said.
A 2018 McLaren 570S speeding southbound on Pecos Road near Tropicana Avenue lost control, left the road and crashed into a 2000 Toyota Camry, police said.
The Las Vegas Valley has about a week left before high temperatures are expected to top the 100-degree mark, according to the National Weather Service.
A man was charged with murder more than 13 years after his former boss, a construction company owner, was found shot to death at the company’s drafting room in Henderson.
A man whose wives were found dead eight years apart under similar circumstances was once again denied bail Wednesday in Henderson Justice Court.