Luis Arambula and his wife, Mixaly, sat in a Valley High School theater full of empty seats Thursday night to hear from Clark County School District police entrusted with the safety of their 5-year-old son and more than 300,000 other students.
Metro Police is asking the public's help in identifying two young men accused of posing as janitors on Feb. 11 to burglarize a business near Desert Inn Road and Maryland Parkway.
A 55-year-old correctional officer who broke his leg when an inmate attacked him in December died from a blood clot related to his injuries, according to the Nevada Department of Corrections.
Chef Beni Velazquez is asking Restaurant Week diners to sink their teeth into a Cubano panini, a culinary creation built with Black Forest ham and pork that’s been slow-roasted for three hours. It’s so good,” said Velazquez as he described the panini.
Using wooden catapults as their weapons and oranges as their ammo, middle school students Jet Baroudi, 14, and teammate Javi McClendon, 13, vanquished a team of three UNLV engineering majors Thursday afternoon in an Engineering Week competition.
Detectives concluded the first phase of their investigation into a Wednesday morning fire that destroyed a construction site of a Muslim cemetery and funeral home.
Metro Police are investigating a Tuesday night incident in which a 15-month-old child was taken to the hospital and tested positive for the drug PCP, authorities said.
What sparked an overnight fire at a construction site for a funeral home and cemetery to serve the Las Vegas Islamic community remains a mystery, fire officials said Wednesday afternoon.
When Henderson newcomer Kathleen Bruening clicked on David Letterman’s website Monday night searching for news about this year’s Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue, she couldn’t believe her eyes.
A construction worker was airlifted to University Medical Center today in serious condition after a crash on Interstate 15 near Jean, about 10 miles outside of Las Vegas.
Visitors doing time inside the newly opened Mob Museum were in no rush to escape and a few even relaxed — in an electric chair. “I had fun with the machine gun,” said Valerie Landau of Las Vegas.
Two finalists — Blake Westling and Stephanie Teteak — stood on a stage Monday at the Mirage, each holding hands, eyeing the $10,000 oversized cardboard check and hoping secretly the other’s name wouldn’t be called — this wasn’t Miss America, but rather a competition to be named America’s best grocery bagger.
Howard Miller, a Las Vegas native who grew up riding his bicycle down Sixth Street in the 1950s and would later became a well-known attorney in the city, died Thursday night at age 68.
After a 14-month undercover investigation police arrested 16 people suspected of selling stolen property. Metro Police’s criminal intelligence section led the investigation code-named “Operation Jigsaw” in which undercover officers posing as employees set up a southwest valley storefront to entice suspects interested in selling various types of stolen property.
Experts share ideas with business leaders on boosting tourism and jobs
Thursday, Feb. 9, 2012
Las Vegas may have taken a powerful body blow when the economy was down for the count, but speakers of Thursday’s Preview 2012 say the city is making a comeback.
Nye County deputies arrested a Pahrump man they found naked on a back porch holding a handgun that authorities say was used today to fire at a residence occupied by six people at the time.
A list of local and national speakers that includes Mayor Carolyn Goodman and author Richard Florida will offer insight about business in Las Vegas at Preview 2012, scheduled for 7 a.m. to 1 p.m. Thursday at the Cox Pavilion on the UNLV campus.
Larry Barber, 37, was arrested Jan. 31 and has been charged with counts of attempted murder with use of a deadly weapon, resisting a public officer, carrying a concealed firearm or deadly weapon and assault with a deadly weapon, according to the Clark County District Attorney’s Office.
A stretch of Interstate 15 has been closed to both north and southbound traffic north of St. George, Utah, as authorities are responding to a standoff with a driver believed to be armed.
Authorities have arrested a second suspect today in connection with the Jan. 22 shooting that left one North Las Vegas man dead and another man injured.
A gourmet Vietnamese sandwich known as the Banh Mi was the reason local Julie Runnells waited for 30 minutes outside a truck that had traveled from California.
A Metro Police officer surrendered to investigators Wednesday after he was charged with two separate instances of groping women while on duty in 2011, authorities said.