A woman’s Dec. 21 death in a wrong-way crash on Interstate 15, between Jean and Sloan, has been ruled a suicide by the Clark County coroner’s office.
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Rio Lacanlale, whose work for the Review-Journal ranges from crime reports to video storytelling, joined the newspaper in October 2016. Before that, the UNLV broadcast journalism graduate contributed to newsrooms in central Italy and Washington, D.C. Rio is also a passionate traveler who enjoys living out of a backpack for months at a time.
A 70-year-old man from Indian Springs likely was impaired and not wearing a seat belt when he was killed in a rollover crash Saturday near the Kyle Canyon turnoff.
The body found Friday night after an abandoned North Las Vegas house went up in flames was inside a bedroom closet, the Clark County coroner’s office revealed Monday.
A crash outside a southern Las Vegas coffee shop Monday morning left one vehicle on its side and another propped up on the overturned car.
Clark County saw its most drastic drop in homicide investigations in at least a decade last year, down 33 percent from the previous year.
Two men were killed about a week apart in late 2019 in unrelated and previously unreported shootings that Las Vegas police believe were both cases of self-defense.
In true Vegas style, there was no shortage of colorful characters on the Strip and in downtown Las Vegas as 2019 came to an end.
All residents were safely evacuated, and as of about 4:10 p.m. firefighters were still working to extinguish the fire.
A man who authorities say was shot and killed Saturday by a woman when he broke into her central valley home was a 30-year-old Las Vegas resident.
The Metropolitan Police Department has completed 90 percent of the changes recommended in an internal assessment of the agency’s response to the Oct. 1, 2017 massacre.
Her body would later be found in the hallway near the back door, according to her nephew, one of six victims killed in the deadliest residential fire in the city’s history.
All six victims were Las Vegas residents and died in the early hours Saturday when a fire broke out at the downtown apartment complex.
A man was expected to survive after he was wounded in a drive-by shooting Christmas Eve morning while walking from his northeast Las Vegas home to a nearby store.
Terry Louie, 61, died of a gunshot wound to the right thigh on Dec. 18 and his death has been ruled a homicide, the Clark County coroner’s office said.
The Clark County coroner’s office has released the names of two people killed within last week in separate crashes while exiting private drives in the Las Vegas Valley.
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