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Nevada congressional Democrats call for ‘bump stock’ hearing

On one-month anniversary of the Las Vegas shooting, lawmakers remember victims and demand a hearing on the use of legality of “bump stocks,” devices that enable semi-automatic weapons to accelerate fire to near automatic rates.

Zappos covers funeral costs for Las Vegas shooting victims

The celebration of life for Adrian Murfitt, an Anchorage man who was one of the 58 people killed during the Las Vegas shooting, had everything Murfitt would’ve wanted.

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Survivors recount ‘sheer panic’ during Las Vegas shooting

The Oct. 1 attack on the Route 91 Harvest festival left 59 people dead, including the gunman, and wounded an additional 546. It also sent thousands of terrified concertgoers — some hurt or covered in other people’s blood — fleeing in all directions, triggering phantom reports of additional shootings at other locations.

Lawyers urge acquittal for man accused of killing girl, mom

Lawyers for a 27-year-old man accused of raping and killing a woman and her 10-year-old daughter told jurors Tuesday that he should be acquitted, criticizing the value of forensic evidence against him.

A month later, Las Vegas shooting crime scene still frozen in time

It’s been a month since a gunman aimed a hail of automatic gunfire toward thousands of country music fans on the Strip, killing 58 and injuring over 500 more, but the concert grounds have sat as if frozen in time as a large and public crime scene.

Route 91 vendors can’t retrieve goods at Las Vegas shooting scene

A court order has been blamed for keeping Route 91 Harvest festival vendors from retrieving equipment and merchandise left at MGM Resorts International’s concert venue during the panic of the Strip shooting.

 
Trial opens in claw hammer murder of Las Vegas woman, girl

Opening statements are slated to start Tuesday afternoon in the death penalty trial of a man charged with raping and killing a 10-year-old Las Vegas girl and her mother in 2012.

Las Vegas shooting details may not be known for years

Questions loom about what drove heavy gambler Stephen Paddock to carry out his diabolical plot and fire into a crowd of Las Vegas concert-goers, but the answers may not be known for months — or even years.

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