Local officials and east Las Vegas residents are set to meet in April to discuss ways to make their community safer.
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 woman in her early 60s was discovered dead with multiple stab wounds in a central Las Vegas home Friday night, police said.
A man who police said shot and killed another man before turning the gun on himself has been identified as Domingo Alonso, 78.
U.S. Highway 95 southbound has re-opened after police activity temporarily shut it down Friday night.
The 19-year-old was shot dead just before 3:10 p.m. on the 3900 block of East Owens Avenue, between Walnut Road and Lamb Boulevard. A gun went off during a struggle with another man over the weapon, the Metropolitan Police Department said.
A man found unconscious March 7 in his running sedan with a semiautomatic rifle also had two handguns and a half-empty bottle of vodka in the car, police documents indicate.
A man is in custody after a nearly seven-hour barricade situation about 40 miles southwest of the Las Vegas Valley.
An off-duty Las Vegas police officer shot and killed a dog after it attacked a smaller dog Friday in the east valley, animal control documents show.
The men posed as customers before using force to steal a luxury watch from a business about 11 p.m. at Forum Shops at Caesars , 3500 Las Vegas Blvd. South, according to a Metropolitan Police Department release.
Clark County Sheriff Joe Lombardo said he will advocate for more resources for the mentally ill if he’s re-elected to a second term.
Longtime Nevada campaign manager Kent Oram, political adviser to future governors, county commissioners, sheriffs and judges over more than three decades, died Friday, his family said.
A man carjacked a taxi, caused three crashes near downtown Las Vegas, attempted another carjacking and hitched a ride on the back of a semitrailer Saturday night, according to police.
Major highway and road closures are making it tough on drivers headed to downtown Las Vegas this weekend.
Someone tried to carjack the student inside of an off-campus parking lot near Maryland Parkway and Twain Avenue, UNLV police announced in a release.
More than 300 people were killed on Nevada’s highways last year. A vigil honored 59 of them Friday night at the Nevada Highway Patrol’s Southern Command headquarters.