Las Vegas News

The American Civil Liberties Union of Nevada has filed a federal civil rights lawsuit against police and public officials on behalf of two Las Vegas Strip street performers after one was arrested in March.

Three men have pleaded guilty to holding seven illegal immigrants in a Las Vegas motel room against their will.

A defense lawyer in Las Vegas cast a 2007 casino shooting by a 53-year-old unemployed house painter as a cry for attention from a broken man who hoped police would shoot him dead.

Las Vegas Gaming Wire LAS VEGAS, Nevada a '- Fontainebleau Las Vegas employees have moved into new offices in Las Vegas while the developer tries to get the bankrupt Strip project back on track.

North Las Vegas Police are investigating the suspicious death of a 70-year-old man found after a landscaper reported an unusual odor coming from the mana s home, the police department announced today.

Sen. John Ensign said Thursday his parents gave his mistress and her family nearly $100,000 "out of concern for the well being of longtime family friends during a difficult time," providing his first public acknowledgment that the woman received payments tied to the affair.In a statement through his attorney, Ensign described the April 2008 payment ...

Police and fire officials are investigating thedeath of a woman whose body was found in a burning apartment in southeast Las Vegas.

The Clark County coroner says a man who was shot and killed by Las Vegas police last week died from a perforating gunshot wound to the back, not the chest as his office reported earlier this week.

A middle-age man was fatally stabbed Monday in an early morning bar fight in southwest Las Vegas, police said.

The husband of Sen. John Ensign's former mistress says the Nevada Republican paid the woman $25,000 in severance when she stopped working for the senator.

A Las Vegas man won a court battle today with the Nevada Department of Motor Vehicles over his "HOE" license plate, which the agency refused to renew on grounds that he was using a slang reference to prostitutes.

Police in Las Vegas say they've arrested two fugitives from a Georgia prison. Lt. Ted Lee says 32-year-old Herman Freeman and 33-year-old Gregory Walker were arrested Tuesday after detectives found a stolen 1991 Mazda Miata with Georgia license plates and saw them walking near a low-budget Las Vegas Boulevard hotel.

PAHRUMP - Former "Hollywood Madam" Heidi Fleiss has pleaded guilty to felony drug charges in Nevada, but will avoid a return trip to prison.

Actress Lindsay Lohan appears at the Wet Republic pool at the MGM Grand Hotel/Casino as she celebrates her birthday and her Sevin Nyne brand tanning mist June 27, 2009 in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Metro Police are investigating a collision in which a 55-year-old woman was struck by a car while walking on a northwest Las Vegas sidewalk this morning.

O.J. Simpson is promising not to disappear or endanger the community if he's freed from prison pending his appeal in an armed hotel room heist, his lawyers told the Nevada Supreme Court.

Humidity is at an all-time low, causing headaches for some Las Vegans.

NORTH LAS VEGAS, Nev. -- The North Las Vegas Public Works Department has started construction on Losee Road to improve traffic flow in the core of the city.

County and federal firefighters are working to contain a wildfire this morning at Desert Wetlands Park southeast of Las Vegas.

An otherwise healthy 34-year-old man could not fight off the H1N1 virus and ended up becoming the first Clark County death from swine flu.