Five members of the MS-13 gang were responsible for a string of killings that left 10 people dead in Clark County in the past year, Las Vegas police announced Monday.
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The Metropolitan Police Department received reports at about 9:50 a.m. at a construction site at 9750 W. Sunset Road, near South Grand Canyon Drive.
The boy was found in the pool on Sunday after police were notified that he was missing from a home on the 1200 block of Summer Dawn Avenue, near Warm Springs Road.
The victim, 44-year-old Dawn Marie Clarke , died of methamphetamine and heroin intoxication, according to the Clark County coroner’s office. Her death was ruled an accident.
A male homicide victim found dead on a sidewalk Saturday near a northeast Las Vegas Valley elementary school has beenidentified.
The Las Vegas Valley can look forward to warmer-than-average temperatures after a windy and cool start to the week, according to the National Weather Service.
One person was killed Monday morning in a three-vehicle collision that left one car wrapped around a pole in the central valley, Las Vegas police said.
Nevada Highway Patrol troopers heard a shot shortly after surrounding the woman’s car Monday morning. She was rushed to a local hospital with what appeared to be a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head.
A 72-year-old man died early Sunday in a house fire in Henderson.
Las Vegas police were investigating Friday after a pedestrian was fatally struck by a vehicle in the central valley.
Possible squatters were seen leaving the vacant Rummel Motel, 1801 Las Vegas Blvd. South as firefighters responded to the two-alarm blaze on Friday morning.
The motorcyclist who died in a crash Sunday afternoon in the east valley has been identified as Pedro Manuel Cedeno-Hernandez, 23, of Las Vegas.
North Las Vegas homicide detectives need the public’s help in identifying a person of interest in a December triple homicide .
Breezy and dry conditions are forecast for the Las Vegas Valley this weekend, according to the National Weather Service.
Mathieu Louisy, 20, who was here to attend a sports seminar, was arrested Friday for allegedly providing a false statement to obstruct a public officer. A second charge was added after he allegedly spat on a fellow detainee in city jail.