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.
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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.
Metro police fatally shot a man Saturday afternoon, ending an hourslong barricade that began Friday night north of the Las Vegas Strip.
Giovanna Perera, 33, was last seen about 6 p.m. Thursday near South Valley View Boulevard and Southern Highlands Parkway, according to a flyer from the Metropolitan Police Department.
A man killed when a truck struck him while he sat at a Las Vegas bus stop last Sunday has been identified as Adriad Velasquez, 43.
A 4-year-old boy who died Tuesday after being found unresponsive in a southeast Las Vegas bathtub had suffered injuries all over his body, including broken ribs, bruises, abrasions, burns and possible rat bites, a Metropolitan Police Department arrest report said.
A husband and wife in their 60s were found dead in an apparent murder-suicide Friday morning in a Henderson residential neighborhood, police said.
A black community lodge sued the city of Las Vegas and the Metropolitan Police Department last week, accusing the agencies of targeting the group in recent years in an effort to close the establishment.
A man died Wednesday night after he was thrown from a three-wheeled motorcycle outside of Beatty, according to the Nevada Highway Patrol.
If it felt like record heat in the Las Vegas Valley this July, that’s because it nearly was.
A driver was arrested on suspicion of drunken driving after his 2011 Nissan Murano struck a motorcyclist about 7:10 p.m. Monday at Paseo Verde Parkway and Carnegie Street, Henderson police said in a release.
The crash happened about 3:20 p.m. on Westcliff Drive west of Rainbow Boulevard, a Metropolitan Police Department release said.
A group of Las Vegas archers aim to help fellow marksmen affected by a massive wildfire in Northern California by hosting a fundraising tournament this week.
Two people were shot after trading bullets in a “gunbattle” outside Boulder Station on Saturday night, Las Vegas police confirmed.
Deputies discovered the injured desert tortoise while investigating Philip Peng, 71, for an unrelated crime, Nye County Sheriff’s Office Sgt. Adam Tippetts said.
A woman shot and killed her estranged husband last week at a home on the 4000 block of Emerald Wood Street, near Nellis and Las Vegas boulevards, Las Vegas police said.
