A suspicious substance found on a letter Monday inside the Clark County Election Department was determined to be deodorant, according to North Las Vegas police.
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Candace Bradford, 43, died from strangulation, and her death was ruled a homicide, the coroner’s office said.
Lawyers for a group of protesters and legal observers have filed a lawsuit that accuses Las Vegas police of using excessive force during Black Lives Matter demonstrations.
A man charged in the slaying of a 24-year-old Las Vegas model, whose body was found last year encased in concrete, has started “hearing voices,” his lawyers said.
The official death toll of the October 2017 shooting excludes two women who died within the past year. The daughter of one victim wonders, “Why isn’t my mom good enough?”
A man was shot in south Las Vegas on Sunday evening, police said.
A suspect has been taken into custody by the California Highway Patrol, several hours after a shooting on the Strip late Sunday left one person critically injured and a hotel-casino on lockdown for several hours.
Officers were called to the 3700 block of Alcantara Lane, near Elkhorn Road and Aviary Way, around 8 p.m. and found a man with gunshot wounds.
Officers responded about 10:50 a.m. to a car wash on the 2400 block of North Martin Luther King Boulevard, near Carey Avenue, according to a statement from the North Las Vegas Police Department.
The death is the seventh homicide the department has investigated this year, according to records maintained by the Review-Journal.
Detectives were conducting the investigation on South Valley View Boulevard south of West Sahara Avenue.
The victims were taken to an area hospital, and the injuries are not considered life-threatening.
A fifth person was arrested Thursday in connection with the fatal shooting of a maintenance worker who was found New Year’s Eve next to a burning car in Barstow, California.
A woman’s body was found in Henderson after she was reported missing Thursday night, and police said they are investigating the death as a homicide.
Officials are urging the public to watch the 1 October Sunrise Remembrance ceremony remotely this year, in light of the coronavirus pandemic.
