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Famartin/WikimediaPatience Frazier, who lived in Winnemucca — a town of around 7,000 people 70 miles south of Oregon, or 500 miles north of Las Vegas — spent two years in prison after having a miscarriage in 2018. -
LVMPD Traffic/XPedestrian deaths — people walking on the road hit and killed by vehicles — is almost as high as it was the last two or three years, and we still have two months to go before the end of the year.
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It’s been eight months since a shooter entered Beam Hall on UNLV campus, shooting and killing three professors. He was shot and killed by police. -
An elected official in Las Vegas blamed his 2022 primary defeat on negative stories in the local newspaper. Now a jury has found him guilty of murdering the journalist who wrote them. -
In Clark County, the sheriff oversees a workforce of some 5,000, who are there to keep the peace in a jurisdiction that includes the state’s largest airport, the state’s biggest economic engine and about half of the county’s 2.3 million residents. -
In his first words to a jury, a former Las Vegas-area Democratic elected official declared Wednesday that he didn’t kill an investigative reporter who wrote articles critical of him and his workplace conduct. Then he promised to tell them his story. -
SafeNest recently received $5 million in state funding for its One Safe Place initiative to build a shelter for victims of domestic violence and trafficking. -
A Nevada man charged with a hate crime acknowledged he referenced a “hanging tree” during a verbal altercation with a Black man who was gathering signatures for a proposed ballot measure southeast of Reno, according to a criminal complaint made public Thursday. -
This week in Las Vegas, two major conferences on hacking and how to prevent them are being held on the Strip: Black Hat and DefCon. -
During the past four years, violent crime has been decreasing nationwide, according to the latest data from the FBI. But rates of violent crime are mixed in the Mountain West. Black men are also arrested at higher rates compared to the ratio of Black men in the general population. -
Four Las Vegas teenagers accused in the fatal beating of their high school classmate have agreed to plead guilty to voluntary manslaughter in a deal that will keep them from being tried as adults, lawyers said Thursday. -
Three inmates have died and nine others were transported for medical treatment as a result of an “altercation” on Tuesday at a maximum-security prison in a rural mining city in eastern Nevada, the state’s Department of Corrections said.
