Vegas News

Police say DNA evidence and a thumbprint have linked a 22-year-old man to the sex attacks and hammer slayings of a Las Vegas woman and her daughter in a brutal home invasion that also left the father seriously wounded.

An arrest report made public Monday also shows that the suspect, Bryan Devonte Clay, told police he owned a baseball cap found after a separate sex attack on a 50-year-old woman hours before the family was assaulted April 15.

A 38-year-old Las Vegas man was sentenced Thursday to two years in federal prison after admitting that he tried to smuggle 159 pounds of iguana meat from Mexico into the U.S. More >

He had a Las Vegas wedding to attend, but Bryan Dalia was hung over from some marathon partying the night before. “I did two bachelor parties, back-to-back,” Dalia said, putting his hand to his forehead as he recalled steins of beer and shots of alcohol the previous afternoon at the Hofbrauhaus Las Vegas More >

State economists say Nevada’s jobless rate fell to 12 percent in March, down from 12.3 percent the month earlier. The state Department of Employment, Training and Rehabilitation says Friday that Las Vegas’ unemployment rate is 12.1 percent, down from 12.2 in February. More >

Las Vegas police on Wednesday arrested a second man in the Tuesday shooting death of a man found in a street in a southeast valley residential neighborhood. More >

As Chicago area casinos slowly recover from the big hit they took in the recession, Ameristar Casino in East Chicago is trying a couple of ways to differentiate itself from the competition. More >

Las Vegas Metro police said there had never been reports of trouble at a home where the bodies of a woman and young girl were found Monday morning. Officials were also at a loss to explain what led to the killings and did not confirm whether the person responsible was the father of the household.

According to a FOX5 source, a 9-year-old student at Mabel Hoggard Elementary came to school and told adults his father had killed his mother and sister.

General Services Administration officials involved in a lavish $800,000 Las Vegas conference are expected to speak out about the controversial gathering for the first time Monday before a House committee investigating it. More >

The General Services Administration’s inspector general has asked the Justice Department to consider criminal charges against an official who has been placed on administrative leave for his role in the $800,000 Las Vegas training conference, The Washington Post’s blog the Federal Eye reported. More >

There have been some further developments in the incredible saga of the General Services Administration’s lavish 2010 Western Regional Conference in Las Vegas, where high-living government bureaucrats threw themselves a million-dollar party at taxpayer expense: More >