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A woman attacked in her home for her car, an older couple robbed when men pushed their way into their home, and a Metro officer shot and killed in his own garage. Police say crime, and robbery in particular, is down. But in the last month, violent crime seems to have picked up. More>>
Two of the suspects being charged in Officer Trevor Nettleton's murder are just teenagers. At 17 and 18-years-old, they are facing the possibility of growing up behind bars. That is a future students at one middle school are learning to avoid. More>>
The youngest suspect in the murder of a Metro police officer will be charged as an adult. Three people are now behind bars in the killing of off-duty Officer Trevor Nettleton. More>>
A Nevada judge is unsealing a search warrant served at a Las Vegas pharmacy in the investigation of pop singer Michael Jackson's death. More>>
A $20 bag of marijuana led to the murder of a 19-year old Las Vegas man four years ago. Detectives working this cold case are hoping for new tidbits of information that might lead to an arrest. More>>
A Las Vegas Metro police officer was shot to death in an attempted robbery early Thursday morning. North Las Vegas Police are handling the investigation into the crime and three suspects have been arrested. More>>
Internet scammers are getting bolder everyday. The latest scam is an email promising money from the IRS. So how do you know what's real or not? More>>
A Las Vegas judge has ruled that two men will stand trial on murder charges. More>>
Las Vegas police are looking for a man who attempted to abduct a 13-year-old girl on her way to school. More>>
A suspect is in custody and facing charges after a manhunt that lasted nearly two hours in the area of Torrey Pines and Twain Wednesday. More>>
A lawyer says an 86-year-old Las Vegas man will plead guilty to fatally shooting his 80-year-old wife last September in a botched suicide pact. More>>
Court documents show Las Vegas police raids last week at six Hells Angels motorcycle club locations sought records, knives and evidence of an ongoing feud with rival Mongols. More>>
With the downturn in the economy, officials say more students have been forced to work to help their families and miss school. One local high school is teaming up with Metro Police to educate parents about truancy laws and graduation requirements. More>>
Henderson police officers and the FBI have arrested five men after a failed bank robbery. Police say the men entered the bank, showed a fake search warrant to the bank manager and demanded all the money from the vault. More>>
In just three days, Las Vegas police investigated two separate deadly home invasions after the homeowner opened fire. But the laws governing when a homeowner can shoot and when they can’t are a gray area. More>>
A Ries Elementary School student is in serious trouble for having a loaded gun at a school bus stop Friday morning. More>>
Las Vegas police say an elderly homeowner shot and killed an intruder about 5:30 Thursday evening during a home invasion near Rancho and Vegas Drive. More>>
Police say a Good Samaritan's astute observations and quick actions are why two toddlers found bound and gagged in their car seats are still alive today. That citizen was recognized Thursday, along with several Las Vegas police officers and Metro employees during an awards ceremony. More>>
The Clark County Sheriff is asking questions about the way the city of North Las Vegas used its "More Cops" money. You may remember the sales tax increase passed in 2004 to hire additional police officers. Recently, the 8 News Now I-Team revealed the North Las Vegas Police Department has far fewer "More Cops" than expected. More>>
North Las Vegas Police have arrested a bus driver after a question from a passenger led to an altercation that escalated to violence against a 67-year-old woman. More>>
Six Hells Angels motorcycle club locations were raided Wednesday in an investigation of a brawl that left two people with stab wounds at a Las Vegas wedding chapel nearly a year ago, police said. More>>
Mike Tyson allegedly hit a photographer at Los Angeles International Airport and was detained on suspicion of battery Wednesday, police said. More>>
A longtime Las Vegas television personality has been accused of telephone stalking. A local woman says she met former TV weatherman John Fredericks through an online dating service and things got weird soon after. More>>
A teenager and a 44-year-old man set off a pipe bomb this weekend in a northeast Las Vegas neighborhood. The blast killed the man and now the teen is charged with murder. But this dangerous device wasn't their first. More>>
A trial date has been set for the parents of a 4-year-old boy who authorities have said died after being left in a vehicle for 17 hours in June 2008. More>>
Police are investigating a shooting near Rainbow and Cheyenne. Police say one person was shot and is in serious condition. More>>
Las Vegas police have charged 17-year-old Mario Labrato with murder after a homemade bomb he allegedly built was detonated, killing a 44-year-old. More>>
Three years and eight trial dates later, one local man is now demanding justice in the death of a woman. It was a violent crash that took a life and according to a witness, exposes a broken court system that is leaving her family without justice. More>>
A woman is dead and her husband is under arrest and facing murder charges. More>>
An elderly couple in east Las Vegas is recuperating after two robbers tricked them into opening their door. More>>
One person is dead, another is wounded, and police are looking for a shooter after an argument turned deadly over the weekend in the West Las Vegas neighborhood. More>>
Police in Orlando say a gunman has been apprehended after killing one person and injuring five others at a downtown office building where he was let go two years ago. More>>
Las Vegas police say they have arrested a man in connection with the death of a 22-year-old woman whose body was found in a downtown trash can last year. More>>
As more information comes to light about the background of Doctor Nidal Hasan, some are already wondering if his faith played a role in his actions. That's something many in the Muslim community unequivocally deny. They say they are appalled by what he is reportedly responsible for doing. More>>
Many times we are talking about stress and mental breaks when a solider gets back from war. There's another side of that coin. Psychiatrist Philip Colosimo says stress of a first deployment can be just as great. More>>
The coroner has not yet determined the cause of death for two men who died while in Las Vegas police's custody. Weapons were not used in either of those cases. Officers relied only on tactical maneuvers to subdue each man. More>>
Military authorities have a man with ties to Las Vegas in custody for the murder of another marine. More>>
Image taken from police video showing teen holding his mother moments before he was shot.A coroner's inquest has found a Metro officer justified in the shooting death of a 15-year-old who was threatening his mother with a knife. This morning, jurors watched a police video as the chaotic event unfolded. Inside, watch the video. More>>
Police in Las Vegas say they arrested a fugitive in a 2004 nightclub slaying in Oakland, Calif. More>>
There are more than 700 registered sex offenders in Clark County and each is watched by a Parole and Probation officer. They say recent cases, like that of Phillip Garrido, accused of kidnapping Jaycee Dugard, is a call to action for them to make sure it does not happen in Las Vegas. More>>
Las Vegas police detectives are investigating several of their own officers after two in-custody deaths in the last four days. The suspects who died were both restrained by police officers right before they stopped breathing. More>>
Two illegal immigrants who face life in prison without parole will not be sentenced until January 2010. Thye were scheduled to be sentenced Thursday for a bombing that killed a hot dog stand vendor outside a Las Vegas Strip casino in 2007. More>>
A 47-year-old man died Sunday night after he was subdued by police who were responding to a fight call. More>>
One community says the human trafficking trade targets them the most. The Las Vegas Asian-Pacific Islander community is speaking out loud and clear about the problem because these women are the least likely to ask for help. More>>
More details are being revealed about the two women arrested on child endangerment charges after three children fell from a moving car. Inside, read the Arrest Report. More>>
The Clark County School District is suing a teenager and his parents over a 2008 fire that was set in the boys' locker room at Palo Verde High School in northwest Las Vegas. More>>
Attorneys for imprisoned polygamous church leader Warren Jeffs on Tuesday argued before the Utah Supreme Court that his 2007 criminal conviction should be overturned. More>>
Eleven years have passed since the death of eccentric casino executive Ted Binion, an event that later lead to the so-called Trial of the Century in Las Vegas. For nearly all of the people involved in the Binion saga, it's all a distant memory. But Rick Tabish is still in prison, even though his murder conviction was eventually overturned. Inside, WEB EXTRA videos. More>>
One of Nevada's highest profile prison inmates hopes the parole board will set him free early next year. Rick Tabish has served 10 years in connection with the death of casino executive Ted Binion. The case was among the most sensational in Las Vegas history, in part because of the steamy love affair at the center of it all. More>>
An alarming trend has authorities on edge when it comes to the number of women drinking and driving. Those numbers are up significantly over the past few years, but the numbers aren't the only reason for concern. More>>
Two women are charged with child endangerment after three children fell out of a car leaving one child in critical condition. More>>
The Metro officer involved in a shooting on Cheyenne Ave. near Michael Way has been identified as Officer David Gilbert. More>>
A Las Vegas family is mourning the loss of a loved one who was brutally gunned down after returning home from a night of trick-or-treating with his children. More>>
The kids will be out trick-or-treating Saturday night and law enforcement has been making arrests so this Halloween will be safe. More than four-dozen sex offenders who've been breaking the law are now behind bars. Inside, find a link to search for sex offenders in your neighborhood. More>>
A witness said she saw a Las Vegas police motorcycle officer shoot a man in the back as he ran away during a traffic stop, a newspaper reported. More>>
As trick or treaters were out hunting for candy four years ago, two drivers and one pedestrian died in three separate Halloween car crashes. For those drivers who make the wrong the choice and get behind the wheel, police say they'll be watching. More>>
Operation Trick-or-Treat III has resulted in 51 arrests by Thursday night as law enforcement agencies target sex offenders. More>>
The More Cops Sales Tax initiative passed on a promise to put more patrol officers on the streets of southern Nevada. Millions generated by the quarter-cent sales tax hike was supposed to increase the rate of police officers per resident. Yet the Channel 8 I-Team has discovered -- in one city -- the numbers just don't add up. More>>
Jurors have found a woman guilty of first degree murder in the death of her 7-month-old foster son. More>>
A Las Vegas police officer has been involved in a shooting near Cheyenne and Michael. The man was rushed to UMC with critical injuries. More>>
Trick or treaters will be filling neighborhood streets this weekend, but you never know for sure who is behind the door they're knocking on. That's why officers will be out enforcing strict rules for sex offenders. More>>
The Nye County Sheriff's Office is hoping to solve the case of a Pahrump woman who disappeared more than three years ago. More>>
A Nevada Department of Motor Vehicles clerk faces arraignment Dec. 2 on 23 felony charges alleging she skimmed money from vehicle registrations she handled at a Las Vegas-area DMV office. More>>
Testimony is underway in the trial of the a woman accused of killing her 7-month-old foster son. More>>
A lawyer says the physician being investigated in Michael Jackson's death will appear for a Nov. 16 child support hearing in Las Vegas. More>>
Investigators need help to catch a peeping tom. They say the suspect has been spying on women in their North Las Vegas homes for several weeks now. They're concerned about what could happen next. More>>
Las Vegas police have arrested a robbery suspect in the area of Mojave and Desert Inn. The suspect was seen in the area so police set up a perimeter and evacuated residents. More>>
U.S. Sen. Harry Reid's campaign has released the police report from a 1981 attempted car bombing that lists the incident as an attempted homicide. More>>
Lawyers for the political advocacy group ACORN and a former voter registration supervisor pleaded not guilty Tuesday to illegally paying canvassers to register Nevada voters during last year's presidential campaign. More>>
A Utah man whose eighth drunken driving conviction sent him to prison for a crash that killed a woman is now asking a court to reverse the guilty verdict in his ninth DUI case. More>>
