Aces lose to Sparks at Mandalay Bay Events Center. (NBA video)
Tony DeFrancesco talks about the win over Albuquerque on July 14, 2018, at Cashman Field. (Betsy Helfand/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
U.S. Rep. Greg Walden, R-Ore., talks about his first visit to Yucca Mountain as part of a congressional tour of the nuclear repository waste site that lies about 90 miles north of Las Vegas.
NBA commissioner Adam Silver talks about the league’s strong presence in June and July. (Mark Anderson/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
Tony DeFrancesco talks about the win over Albuquerque on July 13, 2018, at Cashman Field. (Betsy Helfand/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
Devin Battersby attaches a black-colored device to the back of her iPhone and snaps several of the inside and outside of a Louis Vuitton wallet. The device, installed with artificial intelligence capabilities, analyzes the images using a patented microscopic technology. Within a few minutes, Battersby receives an answer on her app. The designer item is authentic.
Officers responding to the scene at Mandalay Bay comment on difficult communications on the night of the Oct. 1 shooting on the Las Vegas Strip.
A Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department officer cycles through radio channels searching for information as he awaits ambulance traffic just outside University Medical Center on the night of the Oct. 1 shooting on the Strip.
Body cam video from Oct. 1 shows a Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department officer using his radio to summon medical aid for shooting victims near the Route 91 Harvest country music festival.
Tony DeFrancesco talks about the win over Albuquerque on July 12, 2018, at Cashman Field. (Betsy Helfand/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
SLS Las Vegas used to be the Sahara, which opened in 1952 as a $5.5 million, Moroccan-themed resort 1959: A convention hall on the north side of the Sahara is added as well as a 127-foot sign. 1959: Comedian Don Rickles makes the first of many appearances in the Casbar lounge. George Burns also appears in the Casbar lounge. 1961: Del Webb acquires the Sahara through a stock transaction involving 1.5 million shares in the Del Webb Corp. valued at about $12 million. The Sahara adds a $5 million, 24-story skyscraper with 400 rooms, bringing its total to more than 800. 1964: Stan Irwin, the Sahara entertainment director, brings The Beatles to Las Vegas. They perform at the Las Vegas Convention Center and stay at the hotel. 1982: Paul Lowden buys the Sahara for $50 million. 1988: A 26-story tower is added, bringing the room total to 1,500. Lowden expands the casino area and opens a new race and sports book. 1995: Bill Bennett buys the Sahara for $193 million, including 39 acres west of the Strip. 2007: SBE Entertainment and Stockbridge Real Estate buy the Sahara for between $300 million and $400 million. 2011: The Sahara closes 2017: The Meruelo Group announces it had agreed to buy the struggling SLS Las Vegas from Stockbridge Capital Group
Harry Giles and Marvin Bagley III talk about their play for the Sacramento Kings. Video by Mark Anderson/Las Vegas Review-Journal
Bigelow Aerospace’s vice president of corporate strategy discusses the company’s plans with more than $158 million in tax abatements. (Bailey Schulz/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
Rookie wing Zhaire Smith was selected with the No. 16 overall pick in the NBA Draft after one year at Texas Tech. (Sam Gordon/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
U.S. Sen. Dean Heller, R-Nev., speaks during an interview with the Las Vegas-Review-Journal
Jim Hurja talks about the aftermath of the Carpenter 1 fire (Chase Stevens/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
Nevada Highway Patrol Officer Joseph DellaBella helped deliver Brenda Velasquez-Cartegena’s daughter Thursday morning in front of Sunrise Hospital and Medical Center in Las Vegas. DellaBella went to visit Velasquez-Cartegena and her daughter, Bianca Garcia-Velasquez, Friday afternoon with baby supplies and received a surprise of his own: he was asked to be a godfather. (Katelyn Newberg/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
Three men were shot Thursday night in southeast Las Vegas, and two of them have life threatening injuries.
Las Vegas police responded to the incident just after 10 p.m. on the 5000 block of Mountain Vista Street.
The investigation is in its early stages and police were unable to describe the suspect or say how man people they think were involved. Police encourage anyone with information regarding this shooting to call Crime Stoppers at 702-385-5555, or 3-1-1
July 4th fireworks at the Eureka Casino Resort in Mesquite. (7-04-18) (Bizuayehu Tesfaye/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
Volunteers decorate floats for the Summerlin Patriotic Parade (Bizuayehu Tesfaye/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
Tony DeFrancesco talks about the win over Salt Lake on July 1, 2018, at Cashman Field. (Betsy Helfand/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
Tony DeFrancesco talks about the win over Salt Lake on June 30, 2018, at Cashman Field. (Betsy Helfand/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
Financial advisors talk about saving trends among young adults. (Bailey Schulz/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
Las Vegas police are investigating after an officer fired a shot at a suspect fleeing a traffic stop early Friday morning.
The officer tried to pull over a black Dodge Durango with license plates that belonged to a different vehicle. The driver took off northbound on Lamb Boulevard and at one point crossed into the southbound lanes.
A man got out of the car and fled on foot. During the chase, the officer saw something in the man’s hand and fired a single shot, police said.
The man wasn’t injured and was later taken into custody. Police could not confirm if the man had a weapon when he was arrested.
This is the 9th officer involved shooting of 2018. Per police policy, the identity of the officer will be released after 48 hours.
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Four robbery suspects were taken into custody Thursday morning after a vehicle and foot chase that ended in an east Las Vegas neighborhood.
The incident began when a person was robbed at gunpoint around 4:45 a.m. near Maryland Parkway and Desert Inn. Officers arriving at the scene tried to stop two vehicles. One vehicle escaped but police chased the second into a neighborhood on Flamingo Road near Mountain Vista Street. Police surrounded the neighborhood and the suspects were apprehended. It looked like one police vehicle was involved in a collision with the suspects’ car. One woman suffered an unknown injury and was taken to the hospital in an ambulance.
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Tony DeFrancesco talks about the win over Reno on June 24, 2018, at Cashman Field. (Betsy Helfand/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
Tony DeFrancesco talks about the win over Reno on June 23, 2018, at Cashman Field. (Betsy Helfand/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
Tony DeFrancesco talks about the loss to Reno on June 22, 2018, at Cashman Field. (Betsy Helfand/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
Bob Lowes, the Golden Knights’ assistant director of player personnel said the team addressed its needs in Day Two of Saturday’s NHL Draft in Dallas. (Steve Carp/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
The forward was selected in the fourth round in Saturday’s NHL Draft by the Golden Knights. (Steve Carp/Las Vegas Review-Journal)