Arbor View High School was briefly evacuated Thursday when a plastic trash can caught fire in a bathroom, Las Vegas Fire and Rescue officials said. There were no injuries.
An 11-year-old boy was transported to the hospital after he darted into traffic on his bicycle and hit the side of a truck, Henderson Police spokesman Keith Paul said.
Standing at the counter of his new popcorn store, Bob Treska fiddles with the cash register as a series of beeps and clicks signal its failure to comply with his commands. “We’re learning. If we don’t get it, we have my wife’s phone number,” Treska said. The 54-year-old is new to business, but after 30 years of making popcorn for family and friends, Treska has put $20,000 just into the equipment for his new shop, Angelicious Popcorn, which officially opened Monday at 6495 Pecos Road.
Standing at the counter of his new popcorn store, Bob Treska fiddles with the cash register as a series of beeps and clicks signal its failure to comply with his commands. “We’re learning. If we don’t get it, we have my wife’s phone number,” Treska said.
An investigation into the Henderson Police shooting of an unarmed murder suspect has found the officers acted “reasonably and lawfully,” the Clark County District Attorney’s Office said.
An armored company is offering a $5,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the bat-wielding suspects who beat and robbed the guard of an armored car in October.
A collision between a school bus and a car this morning sent two students and three adults to the hospital with non-life threatening injuries, police said.
A second victim in a triple shooting on Saturday has been identified by the Clark County Coroner’s Office as Antonio Garcia-Hernandez, 48, of Las Vegas.
A woman killed in a Saturday night shooting has been identified by the Clark County Coroner’s Office as Nicole Nick, 29, of Las Vegas. Nick died of a gunshot wound to the chest, the Coroner’s Office said.
A 6-year-old boy was transported to the hospital Monday after a school bus ran over his foot, Metro Police and Clark County School District officials said.
Two people were killed in a triple shooting Saturday night believed to be the result of a domestic dispute, Metro Police said. Just before 6 p.m. Saturday, officers responded to calls of a “violent confrontation” in the 4600 block of Metpark Drive in northeast Las Vegas, police said.
A 16-year-old driver was killed Saturday night after his car clipped another vehicle and spun out of control into a concrete wall, Metro Police said. The teen was driving along Jones Boulevard with another 16-year-old boy in the passenger seat of his two-door Honda Civic, police said.
Mark Cole greets visitors to his Guns and Ammo Garage, a shooting range where they can travel back to a world of Prohibition-era weapons by firing the classics in a full mob-related experience.
Before accepting his prize at the Neon Museum Thursday night, before sliding on a yellow Expedia.ca T-shirt under his black dress shirt, before all the excitement of traveling to a place he had never been, Jeff Carson was stuck in Manitoba, Canada, waiting for a plane that had been covered with ice.
Later in the day Junaisy Vargas would be back at the hospital for her 15th chemotherapy session, but Wednesday morning the 5-year-old girl had the chance to just be a kid, clothed from head to toe in pink, her favorite color, as she patrolled the aisles of Target looking for toys and pants. Her parents, Antonio and Glenda Vargas, heard of the annual “Shop With a Cop” event put on by the North Las Vegas Police Department through the Candlelighters Childhood Cancer Foundation. It was an opportunity to have $250 to spend on their daughter, who 10 months ago was diagnosed with sarcoma on her pelvis.
The massive bucking broncos and snorting bulls from the 2012 Wrangler National Finals Rodeo can pose some danger to participants, but security for the animals is in place as much for their safety as ours.
The Thomas & Mack Center again is being invaded by spur-wearing, lasso-tossing cowboys and cowgirls from all stretches of the country — plus one Canadian, barrel racer Lindsay Sears – for the 2012 Wrangler National Finals Rodeo.
Anonymous donors are funding a $25,000 reward for information about three men who invaded a home in Green Valley in March, leaving a man with multiple stab wounds.
A man with a semi-automatic handgun robbed a Las Vegas business in late November and is suspected of robbing at least one other store, Metro Police said.
Wearing a brown loin cloth and an Aztec-inspired headdress with multicolored feathers, Antonio Medina stretched and flexed before the start of Sunday’s Zappos.com Rock ‘n’ Roll Marathon. His last marathon, he didn’t train at all, hubris he paid for in the following days.
The Zappos.com Rock ‘n’ Roll Las Vegas Marathon will feature 14,000 fewer participants this year after water contamination issues and concerns of overcrowding drew complaints in 2011.
A Las Vegas man admitted to beating his father to death with a baseball bat earlier this month and surrendered to authorities Monday in Arkansas, where he is awaiting extradition, Metro Police say.
An inmate serving life in prison for murder was found unresponsive in his cell Saturday and later was pronounced dead. He is the second inmate in two days to die at Nevada prisons.
An elderly woman was killed Friday night when a vehicle hit her and an elderly man in downtown Las Vegas. The two were struck on 13th Street just south of Carson Avenue around 7:30, police said.
A Spanish engineering company has crossed the ocean with a contract to build more than 10,000 solar panels in Las Vegas for an installation in Tonopah that would provide electricity to thousands of homes in Nevada. In March, Spanish engineering firm Batz needed to find an American company to partner with to gain the necessary business licenses to set up shop in the United States.
Several downtown streets will be closed tonight and into dawn Wednesday while production continues on a Warner Bros. movie. Metro Police said closures would be in effect from 6 p.m. Tuesday to 6 a.m. Wednesday in the area from Main Street to Casino Center Boulevard and from Stewart Avenue to the Fremont Street Experience.
One man was stabbed and another shot and killed Sunday night in the western valley, Metro Police said Tuesday. The men were found about 9 p.m. in an alley near the 4600 block of Elk Springs Avenue, police said.
A 12-year-old girl was hit by a vehicle just before 4 p.m. Tuesday and transported to University Medical Center. The collision happened at the intersection of Desert Inn Road and Arville Street, Metro Police said.
Swarms of hooded figures braved the high winds and low temperatures to watch planes climb, dive and spin in ways that sparked the imagination and seemed to defy physics.
A 25-year-old man was killed when he was thrown from his pickup truck after it rolled off an exit ramp on the 215 Beltway early Saturday, Nov. 10, according to a Nevada Highway Patrol spokesman.
After snow was reported in parts of the valley Saturday, a freeze warning has been issued for Clark County that will last until 8 a.m. Sunday, the National Weather Service reported.
A woman was found dead Thursday night in a downtown Las Vegas alley, leaving Metro Police detectives in search of clues. The woman’s body was found in the area of 10th Street and Stewart Avenue.
A pedestrian was hit by a vehicle Thursday evening in a Henderson crosswalk. The collision occurred around 5 p.m. at Anthem Parkway and Somersworth Drive, Henderson Police spokesman Keith Paul said.