A dolphin calf was born on Aug. 11, 2018, at Siegfried & Roy’s Secret Garden and Dolphin Habitat at The Mirage on the Las Vegas Strip. (Bizuayehu Tesfaye/Las Vegas Review-Journal) @bizutesfaye
Kathy Olivier talke about keeping locals home on Aug. 9, 2018, at UNLV. (Betsy Helfand/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
Kathy Olivier talke about keeping locals home on Aug. 9, 2018, at UNLV. (Betsy Helfand/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
Las Vegas Morning Update — Wednesday, August 22, 2018
Tony DeFrancesco talks about the win over Salt Lake on Aug. 21, 2018, at Cashman Field. (Betsy Helfand/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
Corks ’n Crafts is a DIY craft studio in downtown Summerlin that offers a variety of craft classes as well as beer, wine and appetizers. Shopping centers are increasingly focusing on tenants that provide an experience to customers. (Rachel Aston/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
Bryan Salmond is in studio and Michael Gehlken reports from Alameda on day two of being back home in Alameda.
Assistant Sheriff Brett Zimmerman provides details on the August 18, 2018 incident in which LVMPD officers were confronted by an armed suspect. (Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department)
UNLV football coach Tony Sanchez talks about Tuesday’s practice and preparing to play USC. Video by Mark Anderson/Las Vegas Review-Journal
The racetrack will be 16 miles long by the year 2020 according to Spring Mountain Motor Resort and Country Club owner John Morris. (Marcus Villagran/Las Vegas Review-Journal) @brokejournalist
Generations, a 9-year-old thoroughbred son of Indian Charlie, has won 25 straight races, both recognized and unrecognized, on the fair racing circuit in the Northwest and West. (Mike Brunker/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
Las Vegas Morning Update — Tuesday, August 21, 2018
Las Vegas Morning Update — Monday, August 20, 2018
The Aces closed out their first campaign in front of the 5,737 on hand for Fan Appreciation Day at Mandalay Bay Events Center. They lost 93-78 to the Atlanta Dream. (Sam Gordon/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
UNLV football coach Tony Sanchez talks about opening against a program like USC. Video by Mark Anderson/Las Vegas Review-Journal
Former UNLV baseball coach Fred Dallimore speaks of the impact long time major league scout Manny Guerra had on the Las Vegas baseball community during a memorial celebrating Guerra’s life on Aug 18, 2018. (Ron Kantowski/Review Journal).
Las Vegas Morning Update — Sunday, August 19, 2018
It only takes a short walk through Circus Circus to realize it attracts a demographic like no other casino on the Strip: families with young children. (Todd Prince/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
Henderson police released body-worn camera footage of an officer-involved shooting in a grocery store parking lot at 2667 Windmill Parkway on Aug. 12, 2018. (Henderson Police Department)
Arbor View flexed their running power, beating Valley View (CA) 60-13 in the Aggies’ first football game of the season.
Vice president Don Grimmer talks about Morphy Auctions at the company’s warehouse located at 4520 Arville Street in Las Vegas on Thursday, Aug. 16, 2018. (Rick Velotta/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
Las Vegas Academy’s robotics team made it all the way to the world competition last year, the first year the team competed. Zackary Perry describes how they programmed their robot to compete. The team is an example of what Tesla wants to have in every school in the state. (Meghin Delaney/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
UNLV football coach Tony Sanchez talks about Thursday’s practice. Video by Mark Anderson/Las Vegas Review-Journal
Zach Miles, associate vice president for economic development for UNLV, said there’s venture money in Southern Nevada, “but trying to find the right groups to tap into for that money is different.” According to a 2017 report from the Kauffman Foundation, Las Vegas ranked number 34 out of 40 metropolitan areas for growth entrepreneurship, a metric of how much startups grow. With a lack of growing startups in Las Vegas, investment money is being sent outside of state borders. The southwest region of the U.S. received $386 million in funding in the second quarter, with about $25.2 million in Nevada. The San Francisco area alone received about $5.6 billion. (source: CB Insights)
Two Las Vegas police officers rush to respond to the Oct. 1 shooting at the Route 91 Harvest festival and Mandalay Bay when they are stuck behind a gate at a parking garage trying to get out.
Las Vegas police respond to the Oct. 1 shooting at the Route 91 Harvest festival and to Mandalay Bay resort in this body camera footage.
Las Vegas police discuss civilians trying to offer help at the Oct. 1 shooting scene on the grounds of the Route 91 Harvest festival in this body camera footage.
Newly released body camera footage from the Oct. 1 shooting shows the tense moment as two officers crept into a Mandalay Bay hallway to strap explosives to a hotel room door riddled with bullet holes. SWAT officer Levi Hancock placed the charges while K-9 officer David Newton protected him with a ballistic shield held up in front of the door that killer Stephen Paddock had fired through earlier, wounding hotel security guard Jesus Campos. The moment was captured by the body camera strapped to Newton’s shoulder. Newton can be heard breathing as Hancock works. Then they retreat silently back into a nearby stairwell. The whole thing lasts less than a minute.
Dave Dave talks about his art and his life in 2016. (Michael Quine/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
Dave Dave, a respected Las Vegas artist who was badly scarred as a boy when his father tried to burn him to death in Southern California, died at Sunrise Hospital on July 15. He was 42. When he was 6, Dave’s father tried to kill him by setting him on fire. He was given a sleeping pill and his bed at a Buena Park, California, motel was doused with kerosene. “I remembered being in a lot of pain,” Dave told the Review-Journal in 2016. “When stuff happens to you at that young of an age, you tend to block it out, but I remember the pain was excruciating.” Dave, who was born David Rothenberg, became close friends with Michael Jackson, who met him after the attack, which burned more than 90 percent of his body. “I wanted to meet him, and he wanted to meet me, and that just turned into a lifelong relationship that never ended,” Dave said. “It was amazing being friends with Michael Jackson. He was an amazing person.” Dave attended ArtCenter College of Design in Pasadena, California, and collaborated with various artists around Las Vegas, eventually selling his art to private collectors. Despite his challenges, he continued to live, thrive and create. Dave Dave