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LAS VEGAS, Nev. (FOX5) - A Henderson resident believes his freedom of speech is being violated over a bumper sticker on his truck. A bumper sticker that reads “Let’s Go Brandon” is causing all the trouble for the man who is being told by his homeowner’s association that displaying the sticker on his truck is considered an offensive trader activity. Chris lives in the Central Park Estates neighborhood located on the cross streets of Bermuda and Pebble. You can often see his red truck parked in his driveway usually with flags attached to it, but not anymore. “They said I...

LAGUNA WOODS, Calif. - The heroic actions of a Laguna Niguel doctor who died while trying to save fellow parishioners during Sunday's shooting at Geneva Presbyterian Church are being described by authorities as "literally the meeting of good versus evil." He has been identified as Dr. John Cheng, 52, according to Orange County officials. He leaves behind a wife and two children. Cheng "took heroic actions that day," officials said. According to witnesses, Cheng charged the suspect, 68-year-old David Chou of Las Vegas in an attempt to disarm him, which allowed other parishioners to intervene. A pastor threw a chair...

Fewer Americans are moving than ever before, according to recent U.S. Census Bureau data — but a new report says the people who are taking the plunge are flocking to some familiar cities.Houston, Las Vegas and Phoenix topped this year's edition of truck rental company Penske's annual Top Moving Destinations report, which uses data from its one-way consumer truck rental reservations to compile a list of the country's 10 most popular cities for movers. More generally speaking, the Sun Belt led the way, with Dallas, Austin and San Antonio also ranking highly.Eight of the 10 cities made the list in...

A Las Vegas man has been arrested by police after they say he was driving the wrong way on a central Las Vegas thoroughfare, causing a Sunday morning crash that seriously injured two people. Demitri Gee, 33, was booked at the Clark County Detention Center early Sunday on suspicion of driving under the influence causing substantial bodily harm, failure to stop at the scene of an accident, failure to driver properly on a divided roadway, no proof of insurance, and driving without a license. A Las Vegas police arrest report for Gee states Gee was driving a 2016 Ram van...

Authorities say a barrel carrying human remains has been discovered in Lake Mead.Boaters spotted the barrel Sunday afternoon and the National Park Service was alerted.The agency said in a statement rangers searched an area near Hemenway Harbor and found the barrel with skeletal remains. They are working with Las Vegas police.

A body found in a barrel at Lake Mead on Sunday may have been underwater for as long as four decades and more bodies are likely to appear as the lake recedes due to severe drought, according to Las Vegas Metro police. Boaters discovered the body around 3 p.m. Sunday, KTLA sister station KLAS reported. Police suspect the person was killed in the 1980s based on personal items in the barrel, Las Vegas Metro police homicide Lt. Ray Spencer said. He would not elaborate on the person’s cause of death or the items found, citing the ongoing investigation. A photo...

A massive drought-starved reservoir on the Colorado River has become so depleted that Las Vegas now is pumping water from deeper within Lake Mead where other states downstream don’t have access. The Southern Nevada Water Authority announced this week that its Low Lake Level Pumping Station is operational, and released photos of the uppermost intake visible at 1,050 feet (320 meters) above sea level at the lake behind Hoover Dam. “While this emphasizes the seriousness of the drought conditions, we have been preparing for this for more than a decade,” said Bronson Mack, water authority spokesman. The low-level intake allows...

<p>LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — A 16-year-old Las Vegas high school student accused of attempting to kill his teacher last week reportedly strangled and beat the young woman several times before sexually assaulting her, police said.</p><p>Jonathan Martinez Garcia, 16, is being processed as an adult due to the nature of the charges. He faces 15 charges including attempted murder, sexual assault and kidnapping. Nine additional charges were added on Monday.</p>

On Thursday, the Federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), issued an open letter ruling that a type of gun trigger, known as a forced-reset trigger, will be considered a machinegun despite functioning differently than a true automatic machine gun.The letter, dated March 22 and widely published Thursday, March 24, states the agency “recently examined devices commonly known as ‘forced reset triggers’ (FRTs) and has determined that some of them are ‘firearms’ and ‘machineguns’ as defined in the National Firearms Act (NFA), and ‘machineguns’ as defined in the Gun Control Act (GCA).”A conventional trigger is one that, once...

LAS VEGAS, Nev. (FOX5) - A K9 officer with the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department made a massive drug bust early Friday morning in the south valley. According to Las Vegas police, detectives stopped a semi-truck at about 2:30 a.m. Friday morning for erratic driving near the Interstate 15 and St. Rose Parkway. Police say “the nervous driver had a story that didn’t add up.” According to police, K9 Nuggetz indicated an alert for drugs, leading to a search. Among the load of tomatoes in the truck, officers located 230 pounds of cocaine. The cocaine had an estimated value of...

Last Thursday was the second anniversary of the killing of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) Quds Force commander Qassem Soleimani; while the date passed virtually unnoticed in the United States, it was a major event in the Islamic Republic of Iran, featuring numerous threats of revenge from enraged Iranian leaders. One of these stood out from the others: Soleimani’s successor as Quds Force commander declared that the revenge would come from inside the United States. Iran’s state-controlled Tasnim News Agency reported that Brigadier General Esmaeil Qaani was “delivering a speech to a ceremony in Mashhad” for the anniversary...

Police arrested Nika Nikoubin, 21, after she allegedly lured a man she met on the dating site Plenty of Fish in bed only to attack him with a knife Police said Nikoubin and her date rented out a room at the Sunset Station Hotel where she blindfolded the victim as they began engaging in sexual activity A few minutes later the victim said he 'felt a pain on the side of his neck' after Nikoubin allegedly pulled a knife out of her purse and stabbed him in the neck The stabbing was allegedly done 'in revenge against US troops for...

A 21-year-old woman allegedly stabbed her date inside a Nevada hotel room in retaliation for the death of an Iranian military leader killed in a US drone strike in 2020, authorities said. Nika Nikoubin, 21, has been charged with attempted murder, two counts of battery and burglary of a business, KLAS-TV reported. She is being held on $60,000 bail. Nikoubin and the man — whom she met on the dating website Plenty of Fish — agreed to meet at the Sunset Station Hotel and Casino in Henderson, on March 5, renting a room together, police in the city near Las...

Las Vegas police arrested a woman who allegedly stabbed her date she met online in retaliation for the US drone strike that killed an Iranian military leader in 2020. Henderson Police Department charged 21-year-old Nika Nikoubin with attempted murder last Saturday after she allegedly lured a man she met on the dating site Plenty of Fish in bed only to attack him with a knife, the Las Vegas Review-Journal reported. Police said that on March 5, Nikoubin and her date, who has not been identified, rented out a room together at the Sunset Station Hotel where the 21-year-old turned off...

A now-deceased official with President Donald Trump’s National Security Council received a report suggesting that the 2017 Las Vegas shooting may not have been the work of a “lone gunman” with no discernible motive, but rather a terrorist attack perpetrated by at least two men with possible ties to ISIS and/or ANTIFA, according to National File. Testament to how cowed and pathetic American journalists are that no one got to the bottom of Las Vegas shooting— Darren J. Beattie (@DarrenJBeattie) January 3, 2021The “All Source Assessment,” entitled “Attack on the Route 91 Country Music Festival,” was prepared for Rich Higgins,...

Gov. Steve Sisolak and first lady Kathy Sisolak were threatened by two men at a Las Vegas restaurant Sunday, as one of them forcefully yelled, “We should string you up on a lamp post. You are running into a patriot now.”Video of the one-minute exchange shows one of the men trying to intimidate Sisolak by saying, “I’m surprised you have the balls to be out here in public, punk, without a cop.” The video was initially obtained by the Review Journal.Sisolak’s office said the men approached asking to take a photo. The exchange at Lindo Michoacan on West Flamingo Road...

Fourteen people — one of whom died and two of whom were critically hurt — were shot early Saturday at a Las Vegas hookah parlor, cops said. Two patrons at Manny’s Glow Ultra Lounge & Restaurant traded bullets after an argument at around 3:15 a.m. this morning, according to police. Police responded to multiple 911 calls about the incident, according to police.

Las Vegas police say they have arrested a registered sex offender following a sexual assault incident involving a 14-year-old boy. Police say the incident began in the 4200 block of East Tonopah Avenue, near Lamb and Lake Mead.Officers responded to the area at approximately 6:26 a.m. on Thursday. According to the investigation the boy was approached by the suspect now identified as 42-year-old Willie Collins as he was walking to school.The boy told police as Collins approached him he told him he was armed with a weapon and said he would kill him if he didn’t comply with his request....

A Las Vegas gas station clerk shot a customer who refused to wear a mask when he tried to pay for chips, police said. The customer walked into the Terrible Herbst Convenience Store on Feb. 6 without a mask on, and a worker inside asked him to put one on or leave, Las Vegas police said in a case report. He brought three bags of chips up to the counter, but the clerk refused to ring him up, police said. The man then walked out of the convenience store with the snacks in hand without paying, police said, and the...

The Clark County School District has confirmed that they are aware of the video that we posted earlier today of a girl being brutally beaten unconscious while students and teachers watched and even laughed in the background. Sadly, as usual CCSD seems more concerned with the video getting out and parents seeing what actually happens inside these schools than stopping the daily violence, riots, stabbings and assaults inside Las Vegas Schools. Warning the Video is Extremely Graphic! This would have been covered up just like the other daily assaults, stabbings & riots inside CCSD schools. Sad that they seem more...