A ticket-holder to the Electric Daisy Carnival in a refund dispute with festival organizers made vague terrorism threats through social media, police said.
Ricardo Torres-Cortez
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Ricardo Torres-Cortez covers the city of Las Vegas and Clark County. He returned to the Review-Journal, where he’d interned, after a five-year stint at the Las Vegas Sun newspaper. A Mexican-born graduate of UNLV, he’s passionate about soccer, video games, books and coffee.
The Metropolitan Police Department’s Detention Services Division organized a resource fair in an empty, fourth-floor housing unit
Police arrested a woman investigators alleged sold 21-year-old Adrianna Folks counterfeit prescription pill that killed her in early March.
A teenager reported missing this week by the FBI and the Paiute Police Department in Las Vegas has returned home, the federal agency said Friday morning.
A veteran officer with the Metropolitan Police Department was arrested Monday on suspicion of DUI following a hit-and-run crash in south Las Vegas.
Carlos Fonseca Jr., 27, faces four counts of willful, malicious, torture or maim and or killing of a dog, court records show.
The men are accused of selling more than 40 pounds of cocaine and shipping it to customers around the U.S. from various local post offices.
On Friday morning, Darrell Martin of Southern BBQ Pit returned to the hospital for the first time, bearing plates of food for the staff that saved his life.
The victim as expected to recover following a shooting on a Las Vegas Strip sidewalk early Friday near the Miracle Mile Shops that police described as an “isolated incident.”
A previously-deported English national is facing up to five years in federal prison for bilking nearly $700,000 from Nevada and California residents using fraudulent unemployment insurance cards, the Justice Department announced Thursday.
A seemingly innocuous exchange between passengers on an RTC bus this month preceded a fatal shooting at a bus stop in Las Vegas, according to the suspect’s arrest report.
The 50-year-old Las Vegas man became combative when police attempted to detain him in a Walgreens, then became unresponsive after being cuffed.
Las Vegas police are searching for the driver of a minivan that detectives say was involved in a fatal hit-and-run crash early Tuesday in the central valley.
A driver suddenly braking or cutting off vehicles is certain to bother fellow motorists. Taking a deep breath to shake off the frustration is part of the normal human experience: acting out in rage is not.
Drug overdose deaths among Nevadans under the age of 25 nearly tripled from 2019 to 2020, according to a report released this month.
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