“Billie the Pidge” found when pigeon rescue group was searching for another cowboy hat-wearing bird in Las Vegas (Ellen Schmidt/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
Recently announced Presidential candidate for the 2020 election, Deval Patrick, stops in the west side of Las Vegas to speak with voters.
In their final home game in Oakland, the Raiders allowed the Jacksonville Jaguars to come back and win 20-16. The loss didn’t sit well with fans who began to trash the field while the game was still in progress. (Le’Andre Fox/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
A pedestrian is dead after being struck by a vehicle that ran a red light Sunday afternoon in the east valley, Las Vegas police said. (James Schaeffer / Las Vegas Review-Journal)
The Raiders played their final game in Oakland on Dec. 15. Their $2 billion soon-to-be-Las Vegas home continues to progress toward its July 31 completion date. (Mick Akers/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
UNLV welcomes new head football coach Marcus Arroyo in a press conference filled with staff and athletes.
Jonathan Friedrich paid HOA fees to Rancho Bel Air Property Owners Association, Unit 2 for 10 years when he found out he didn’t live in the HOA. “That was the start of the big fight,” he said. (K.M. Cannon/Las Vegas Review-Journal) @KMCannonPhoto
The finishing touches are still being put on Bellagio’s new Mayfair Supper club, which is set to open on New Year’s Eve. But the creative team behind the experience gave members of the media a little preview on Thursday in a rehearsal space they’ve been using at Park MGM. (Al Mancini/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
A vacant building near Summerlin, formerly a pet hospital, may become a marijuana dispensary. The Las Vegas Planning Commission gave it the green light this week and the Las Vegas City Council must vote on it in February. (Bizuayehu Tesfaye/Las Vegas Review-Journal) @bizutesfaye
The highest-ever rate of 84.11 percent was reported for the Class of 2019 with Clark County School District posting an 85.8 percent graduation rate for 2019. (Las Vegas Review-Journal)
A Dallas real estate group is betting big on Las Vegas’ apartment market, scooping up four properties for more than $345 million. (Michael Quine and Bizuayehu Tesfaye/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
Review-Journal reporter Cassie Soto interviews 24-time world champion in tie down and team roping.
The NFR is celebrating its 35th year in Las Vegas and the Review-Journal will be live every day at 5:45 pm with special one-on-one interviews.
Day 5 we are joined by Nevada’s own Trenten Montero. This is his first year qualifying at NFR.
Check back with us every day at 5:45 p.m. for a preview of what’s to come that night at the Thomas & Mack Center.
The cube synced with driving electronic music and glowed with LEDs that twinkled along the cube’s lines. (Janna Karel Las Vegas Review-Journal)
Trent Carlini, a renowned Elvis Presley tribute artist who performed at several Las Vegas resorts for almost 30 years, has died. Clark County officials confirmed Carlini died on Sunday, Dec. 8, 2019, at a Las Vegas hospital. (Las Vegas Review-Journal)
Lenoard Nielsen and Edward Hall, believed to be the last two survivors of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor living in Las Vegas, aren’t sure that the lessons from the “date which will live in infamy” will withstand the test of time. (James Schaeffer, Briana Erickson, Michael Quine / Las Vegas Review-Journal)
He last qualified for the National Finals Rodeo in 2005, but somewhere between continuing to travel those long, dark stretches of road littered with trailers hooked to unfilled dreams, Lockett directed his horse on another, more stable journey.
Lockett has returned to the NFR, the team roping heeler and partner Erich Rogers finishing in the money in the first go-round Thursday night at the Thomas & Mack Center.
Two people are dead following a “catastrophic” crash involving a wrong-way driver Thursday night on Interstate 15 south of Las Vegas. (James Schaeffer / Las Vegas Review-Journal)
With the NFR rolling into town for the 35th year, an influx of cowboy boots will be seen around town. But what makes a good cowboy boot? The LVRJ went to Cowtown Boots on Flamingo, near the Thomas and Mack where the NFR is taking place, to discover what makes up a sturdy boot.
2019 Wrangler National Finals Rodeo qualifiers Sage Kimzey and Rusty Wright walk the gold carpet at the South Point casino in Las Vegas, Nevada.
“Banksy: Genius or Vandal?” at Immersion Vegas in Fashion Show mall in Las Vegas. The collection of more than 70 original works by the street artist will be on display through April 5. (K.M. Cannon/Las Vegas Review-Journal) @KMCannonPhoto
A 27-year-old Las Vegas man had nearly twice the legal limit of alcohol in his system when he crashed on Thanksgiving and killed a mother of three, a prosecutor said Tuesday.
Fator has edited out one prominent figure: President Donald Trump, a focal point of Fator’s regular stage show and also Christmas show over the past 3½ years. The Trump puppet, with his pop-up hairpiece, has been sidelined from both shows until further notice. (James Schaeffer / Las Vegas Review-Journal)
A vigil was held Sunday evening to honor the 32-year-old California woman killed in a crash on Thanksgiving morning in Las Vegas. (James Schaeffer / Las Vegas Review-Journal)
Family members have identified the victim of a suspected DUI crash that happened on Thanksgiving in southwest Las Vegas. (James Schaeffer / Las Vegas Review-Journal)
Clark County District Judge Susan Johnson ordered civil lawyer Jeff Brauer handcuffed in her courtroom this week, threatening to have him jailed through the Thanksgiving holiday, after finding that he violated a longstanding order to pay court costs and attorney fees. (
Clark County prosecutors are increasingly charging fatal DUI suspects with murder. However David Westbrook and his wife, Deborah, are public defenders who are litigating a case involving such a defendant and have already filed a brief with the Nevada Supreme Court noting case law has already rejected this practice. (Bizuayehu Tesfaye/Las Vegas Review-Journal) @bizutesfaye
A 35-year-old woman was killed in a crash on Thanksgiving morning after a suspected DUI driver ran a red light in southwest Las Vegas, police said. (James Schaeffer / Las Vegas Review-Journal)