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LAS VEGAS, Nev. (702 Times, NV Globe) – Federal investigators said Wednesday that a drug-impaired and exhausted truck driver was the likely cause of a December 2020 incident on a Nevada highway that killed five bicyclists and wounded four more. However, the National Transportation Safety Board’s final assessment on the...

LAS VEGAS, Nev. (702 Times, NV Globe) – Whether it’s major chain pharmacies or tiny independents, they’re all facing pharmaceutical shortages this season to combat the triple threat of respiratory viruses. “It’s never been that crazy. This is the first time that this panic thing is going on,” owner of...

LAS VEGAS, Nev. (702 Times, NV Globe) – According to the Nevada Hospital Association, the increase in RSV occurrences in Nevada has resulted in a lack of hospital cribs and pediatric beds. “This week, supplies in southern Nevada have been elevated to an alert level as hospitals have requested assistance...

LAS VEGAS, Nev. (702 Times, NV Globe) – On Wednesday, a rapper who boasted about getting rich by defrauding a COVID assistance program and using stolen identities to acquire money was sentenced to more than six years in jail. Fontrell Baines, 33, better known as “Nuke Bizzle,” was arrested in...

LAS VEGAS, Nev. (702 Times, NV Globe) – A suspect in a shooting outside a northeast valley property in late November was apprehended by Las Vegas Metropolitan Police. LVMPD identified the suspect as Usbaldo Zarate, 27. According to police, Zarate was already in jail at the Clark County Detention Center...

18 Arrested In Undercover Operation To Catch Online Predators LAS VEGAS – According to Metro Police, authorities apprehended more than a dozen suspects in an undercover computer operation in which they posed as kids online. Eighteen people were apprehended on December 1 and 2 for allegedly planning to meet up...

Police Investigating Armed Robbery Near UNLV LAS VEGAS – An armed robbery near the Thomas & Mack Center was investigated by University of Nevada Las Vegas Police. Around 8:40 p.m., the incident occurred near Naples and University Center Drives. The suspect is described as a Hispanic man adult, around 5...