Strong winds knocked out power to thousands of Las Vegas Valley residents Saturday night, and a flash flood warning was issued for Clark County, the National Weather Service said.
Mike Shoro
Mike Shoro joined the business desk in May 2020 after working as a digital reporter and social producer. He previously reported on crime and breaking news for the Review-Journal. A University of Nebraska-Lincoln graduate, and a Chicago suburbs native. Prior to joining the R-J, he worked at several news organizations in Nebraska. Father to an unruly rabbit.
A former Henderson resident was sentenced Friday to 135 months in federal prison for sharing sexually explicit pictures of children on Twitter, a U.S. Department of Justice release said.
Security at the Encore discovered various narcotics and recreational drugs inside of Henry T. Nicholas III’s guest room Tuesday when they unlocked the room after he was locked out, an arrest report said.
The body was found on or near the 8900 block of Las Vegas Boulevard North, spokesman Eric Leavitt said. Its exact location wasn’t immediately clear.
Las Vegas and Henderson police on Thursday arrested three people suspected in string of bank robberies over last three weeks, a Henderson Police Department release said.
Brandon Steckler watched as a group of adults and children scrubbed and shined vehicles during a Las Vegas car wash Thursday evening to raise money for his 4-year-old son’s funeral expenses.
The Metropolitan Police Department shared new details Thursday from an officer-involved fatal shooting of a knife-wielding man on Monday. The shooting marked the department’s third officer-involved shooting within a 48-hour span.
A Las Vegas police sergeant shot and killed a man Wednesday night after she found him stabbing a woman at a southeast valley apartment complex, a Metropolitan Police Department official said.
One person was taken via helicopter and another by ambulance to a hospital after a south valley crash Wednesday evening, Las Vegas police said.
A Metropolitan Police Department officer was investigating a crash at East Charleston Boulevard and Lamont Street, when a green Nissan Pathfinder caused a second crash nearby, Lt. Grant Rogers said.
Metropolitan Police Department officials showed body-worn camera footage Tuesday on the two Saturday shootings — one ending an hourslong standoff north of the Strip and the other occurring as police worked a call of a possible suicidal person in central Las Vegas.
A man is dead after the Metropolitan Police Department’s second officer-involved shooting in a span of 10 hours, Las Vegas police said.
Six people, among them children, were shot at a celebration Saturday night near a home in North Las Vegas, police said. None suffered life-threatening injuries.
One person died after a fatal crash involving a pedestrian Saturday evening crash near West Sahara Avenue and South Tenaya Way, Las Vegas police said.
Metro police fatally shot a man Saturday afternoon, ending an hourslong barricade that began Friday night north of the Las Vegas Strip.