The 49th World Series of Poker opened Tuesday at the Rio, but began in earnest Saturday with the “Colossus” $565-buy-in No-limit Hold’em Tournament guaranteeing a cool $1 million payout to the winner.
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Mike Shoro joined the business desk in May 2020 after working as a digital reporter and social producer. He previously reported on crime and breaking news for the Review-Journal. A University of Nebraska-Lincoln graduate, and a Chicago suburbs native. Prior to joining the R-J, he worked at several news organizations in Nebraska. Father to an unruly rabbit.
It’s June in the Las Vegas Valley. “It’s gonna be hot,” National Weather Service meteorologist Alex Booth said. “Period.”
Las Vegas police are investigating two crashes, one deadly and the other life-threatening, in the same vicinity Saturday evening in the west valley.
One of two people arrested in the Wednesday shooting death of a 60-year-old woman has been identified. Las Vegas police named Kamari Collins, 18, as a suspect.
Two men are in custody in connection with the shooting death of a 60-year-old woman Wednesday outside of her northwest valley home, according to Las Vegas police.
A moped rider was shot and killed after an argument Friday afternoon in the northeast valley, Las Vegas police said.
Las Vegas police are investigating the stabbing deaths of a couple found Friday afternoon inside their Strip hotel room as a double homicide.
A Nevada prison inmate died Tuesday at a Las Vegas hospice facility, according to a prison spokeswoman.
Nobody was hurt when two people wearing masks robbed a strip club at 3525 W. Russell Road on May 13, Las Vegas police said.
The crash was reported about 7:20 p.m. outside of Planet Hollywood Resort, 3667 Las Vegas Blvd. South, according to the Metropolitan Police Department.
Roads near the Strip are set to reopen after they were closed Thursday afternoon because of police activity.
Sheri Aoyagi, the woman gunned down outside her northwest valley home Wednesday loved her husband, her own dogs and the ones nobody else wanted.
About 8:20 p.m., a nourthbound Mercedes-Benz hit a man who was crossing North Decatur Boulevard near West Bonanza Road, Metropolitan Police Department Lt. David Gordon. He died at a local hospital.
A woman in her 60s was gunned down by two burglars outside her northwest valley home Wednesday afternoon, Las Vegas police said.
Shootings claimed the lives of three people, including a 2-year-old boy, and injured a 3-week-old infant during a violent 20-hour stretch in the Las Vegas Valley.
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