Nevada Blogs

Years ago doctors told people to move to the desert to breathe more easily. But thousands of Las Vegans who suffer with asthma can attest to the fact that it's no better here than where they came from.The dry air is good, but the dust is killer and so are the non-native plants.Breathing easy is ...

Las Vegas holds steady at # 2 in the nation this year for auto thefts.If you drive a 1996 Honda, your car is at the top of the list of the most popular stolen vehicles in Nevada. The National Insurance Crime Bureau has released a top ten list of the most popular cars for auto ...

2 Teens crossing at Sahara snd Durango didn't have a Happy Halloween . One was killed as a pickup struck and killed the teen at the site last night. Las Vegas streets kill again!

Interstate 15 is closed again south of Las Vegas after a multi-vehicle pileup left as many as 12 people hurt, forcing closure of the roadway.A pickup truck hauling sand plowed into a row of cars Monday night in a construction zone near Blue Diamond Road. At least one seriously injured person had to be airlifted ...

Is it too dangerous to live in Las Vegas, you bet! A new report ranks the safest and most dangerous cities in the country. As usual, Las Vegas scored high in the dangerous category.The study takes into account six crime categories murder, rape, robbery, aggravated assault, burglary and car thefts. A high crime ...

A domestic dispute may be the motive behind a murder on Friday. Police were called to a home near Sahara and Valley View Friday morning after a woman was shot and killed.Police think a man who may be the woman's ex-husband or ex-boyfriend pulled the trigger. And they say they are questioning a man ...

On Friday a federal judge delayed ruling on whether a videotape of a beating at the Palms should be released to the public. She wants to watch the tape herself before deciding if you get to see it.People at the Palms are changing their reason for why they don't want the tape released. First, they ...

An 18-year old is in custody for firing a gun at a police helicopter after a high school football game. It happened Thursday night near Western High School.Shots were fired shortly after a fight erupted on the football field between Western and Bishop Gorman students. Metro units were called out to help break up the ...

Drug agents said they have broken up an aggressive drug operation that allegedly shipped drugs hidden in toys like an Elmo doll to Las Vegas drug dealers, and then shipped by car and bus.In other cases, they shipped methamphetamine to dealers in Las Vegas and other cities in a suitcase, or tucked the drug inside ...

Kentro Taylor was sentenced Wednesday to six to 15 years in prison as a result of a leading police on a 2005 high-speed chase during which his girlfriend was firing shots at officers who were pursuing them.The other half of the dumbass duo, April Jones, is serving a prison term of 14 to 40 years ...

A moped rider was killed in an accident on the Las Vegas Strip overnight. Police say just before 3 a.m., the rider ran a red light while turning onto Las Vegas Boulevard from Flamingo and was hit by a car. The rider was killed at the scene, while the driver of the car was not ...

Las Vegas police who had heard gunshots in the 3800 block of Nellis Boulevard and Flamingo Road about 2:50 a.m. Wednesday found a woman near there bleeding from bullet wounds.The woman was taken to Sunrise Hospital and Medical Center where she was pronounced dead, Las Vegas police said. Authorities withheld her name, age and hometown ...

Police were back in action at local schools yet again on Tuesday, confiscating a LOADED handgun at a middle school and searching for a burglary suspect inside an elementary school.Martin Luther King Jr. Elementary School's more than 450 students got an unexpected day off from school on Tuesday while authorities searched for a 40-year-old man ...

Police are searching for a man who tried to kidnap a young girl as she walked home from school Monday. It happened near Dondero Elementary School in the area of Jones and Harmon.Police say a man grabbed the girl's arm and told her he was taking her with him. She was able to break away ...

A University of Nevada, Las Vegas music professor who was under investigation for possession of child pornography was charged Monday with 25 counts of the crime, officials said.Richard Soule, a 32-year UNLV professor and principal flutist for the Las Vegas Philharmonic, was found with more than 26,000 child pornography images at his home and ...

Nearly two dozen residents of a North Las Vegas neighborhood were evacuated during a police standoff early this morning. It began around 3 a.m. in the 900 block of Taylor Avenue, near Las Vegas Boulevard and Owens. Police say an armed man holed himself up inside a home and refused to come out. A family ...

A standoff involving a bank robbery thug kept SWAT busy most of the day. It ended tragically after the suspect committed suicide.The event unfolded at Jones and Rochelle after a nearby bank was robbed. The robbery suspect has barricaded himself into an apartment in a complex located at 4400 South Jones.The SWAT officers surrounded the ...

There are more signs this week that the Las Vegas housing market is turning to shit. In September, the median price for a home was $285,000. That's exactly the same as it was one year ago.And experts say there's been a 21.5-percent decline in new home building permits in the past year. The number of ...

There's been more school violence in Las Vegas, this time at Biltmore Continuation High School at Washington and Main. 15 kids were arrested at around 11:30 Monday morning and taken to juvenile hall. School officials say it all started with two girls and escalated into a big fight.No weapons were used in this ...

The driver of an SUV ran a red light overnight, killing two people. It happened around 1:45 Monday morning on Tropicana, near the US 95 overpass.A Dodge Stratus was driving through the intersection when a Ford Explorer ran a red light and slammed into the car's driver's side.Both the man and woman inside that car ...