Police say the uncle of a 21-year-old man already facing charges has been arrested in a southern Nevada freeway shooting that appeared to be a random drive-by, but that investigators say stemmed from a murder plot hatched over a bitter divorce.
A prosecutor says he's almost positive a Las Vegas man who was sentenced to more than three years in federal prison in a mortgage fraud case will go back to preying on distressed homeowners.
A 40-year-old former construction company manager now living in Illinois has become the 28th person to take a plea deal in an ongoing federal probe of southern Nevada homeowner associations steering business to favored attorneys and businesses.
Authorities say a veteran Las Vegas traffic officer has been suspended without pay following his arrest on felony fraud charges in a workers' compensation case.
The district attorney is clearing two Henderson police officers in the July 23 death of an unarmed fugitive in a kidnap-slaying case who led police on a chase and tried to commandeer a passing motorist's vehicle.
Rising demand and falling supply are spurring talk in the arid West of outside-the-box ideas like piping water from the nation's heartland and towing Arctic icebergs south to help thirsty U.S. cities like Denver, Los Angeles, Las Vegas and Phoenix.
A 22-year-old was sentenced to 18 years to life in prison and his 21-year-old brother got 13 to 25 years for strangling a southern Nevada high school music teacher before stealing his car, laptop computers and a video game system in December 2008.
Witnesses tell police a 6-year-old boy who was injured by a school bus in Las Vegas was throwing rocks at cars, darting into traffic, and ran into the side of bus.
A federal appeals court panel is giving a Canadian man another chance to prove that he's the legal owner of nearly $1 million that Nevada state troopers seized from his rental car during a traffic stop near Las Vegas in August 2008.
Las Vegas police say two people were arrested and almost 70 marijuana plants were found in what investigators called a sophisticated growing operation at two Henderson homes.
Authorities have identified a 16-year-old boy who died after the car he was driving crashed into a concrete wall off a busy thoroughfare west of downtown Las Vegas.
A former aide has pleaded guilty to five felony charges and is agreeing to testify against the former owner of a Las Vegas outpatient clinic that officials blame for a 2007 hepatitis C outbreak in southern Nevada.