Crime

As real acts of mass violence become a more common reality in this country, hoax reports of shootings are plaguing schools.

Domestic violence is an insidious crime because it happens to people in relationships who are supposed to love each other.

Human remains found more than 30 years ago near Battle Mountain have been identified as a Utah woman who disappeared in 1989 and was the apparent victim of a homicide.

The high-stakes gambler who carried out the deadliest mass shooting in modern America, killing 60 and injuring hundreds more in Las Vegas, was apparently angry over how the casinos were treating him despite his high-roller status, according to a fellow gambler.

Authorities in Las Vegas said they have identified human remains found last October at Lake Mead as a North Las Vegas man who drowned in April 1974.

When fewer and fewer people want to be cops — the Las Vegas police saw applications fall off by 70% — how do you put a dent in crime?

State lawmakers nationwide are responding to the deadliest overdose crisis in U.S. history by pushing harsher penalties for possessing fentanyl and other powerful lab-made opioids that are connected to about 70,000 deaths a year.

You might not realize it, but you’ve probably been the target of someone’s scam, either on the phone, through email or some other electronic device.

A former Las Vegas-area elected official endured searing questions from a state court judge but got the go-ahead Tuesday to represent himself at trial on a murder charge in the killing of a veteran investigative journalist.