The reorganization of the Clark County School District is contributing to the district’s budget pinch. At this point, it’s impossible to predict know how the new education funding formula will work. Also, Nevada charter schools need to serve more high-need students before it’s possible to tell if they’re successful. That’s according to Kenneth Retzl, director of education policy with the Kenny Guinn Center for Policy Priorities.
Officials in Pahrump believe that the recent Fourth of July earthquake caused the death of resident Troy Ray as he was working on his car. If true, it will be the first earthquake-related death in the state in recorded history, according to research geologist Craig dePolo. (Rachel Aston/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
Clark County Sheriff Joe Lombardo held a press conference on Wednesday, July 10, regarding a new report about the police department’s performance during Las Vegas shooting on Oct. 1, 2017. (Mat Luschek/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
The city of Las Vegas will host the 2020 NFL Draft, but the question that still lingers is where exactly it will be held. The Bellagio is currently the frontrunner to stage the main event, but it would mean closing down multiple streets on Las Vegas Boulevard for draft preparations weeks before the first pick is made. LVRJ host Cassie Soto and LVRJ Transportation Reporter Mick Akers discuss various locations where the draft could be held as well as the economic impact it will bring to the city.
The city of Las Vegas will host the 2020 NFL Draft, but the question that still lingers is where exactly it will be held. The Bellagio is currently the frontrunner to stage the main event, but it would mean closing down multiple streets on Las Vegas Boulevard for draft preparations weeks before the first pick is made. LVRJ host Cassie Soto and LVRJ Transportation Reporter Mick Akers discuss various locations where the draft could be held as well as the economic impact it will bring to the city.
Las Vegas police have released surveillance footage of two persons of interest in a fatal shooting at Desert Shores Villas. (Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department)
Bail was set at half a million dollars for Cierre Wood, the ex-pro football player who faces a charge of first-degree murder with his girlfriend Amy Taylor in the death of 5-year-old La’Rayah Patra Nicole Lamont Davis. (Michael Quine/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
The Las Vegas Aces claimed the best record in the WNBA with a 74-71 win over the Indiana Fever on July 10, 2019, (WNBA)
After making history as the first batch of winners to all earn contracts following their performances at Dana White’s Contender Series, the fighters react to making it to the UFC.
For the first time in the three-season history of Dana White’s Contender Series, every winning fighter earned a UFC contract. Maki Pitolo, Joe Solecki, Antonio Trocoli, Hunter Azure and Jonathan Pearce impressed the UFC brass and were awarded contracts by the UFC president.
NBA commissioner Adam Silver held a news conference Tuesday at Wynn Las Vegas. (Mark Anderson/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
The Nye County Sheriff’s Office investigated a man’s death reported on July 9 that may have been related to a Southern California earthquake that occurred on July 4 and was felt in Southern Nevada. (Nye County Sheriff’s Office)
Appropriately located in the District area of the resort and casino, is the Hunger Games Exhibition. (Mat Luschek / Review-Journal)
On Tuesday, July 9, Christopher J. Weygant II, originally charged with murder in the death of Bailey Beck, pleaded no contest to battery with a deadly weapon. (Michael Quine/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
New Zealand banned most semi-automatic rifles just weeks after horrific shootings at two
Christchurch mosques. American gun grabbers hailed it as a model for this country. There’s just
one problem. The ban isn’t going as planned.
A woman was killed in a multivehicle crash Tuesday Washington Avenue just east of Decatur. (Michael Quine and Angus Kelly/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
About an hour outside of Las Vegas, near Bunkerville, you’ll find the Camel Safari. (Mat Luschek/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
The Hello Kitty Cafe opens Friday, July 12th, 2019, between New York, New York and Park MGM on the Las Vegas Strip. (Mat Luschek / Review-Journal)
By the end of next near, the city is expected to add 1,969 hotel rooms, an NFL stadium, a major data center and several property expansions.
The Las Vegas Stadium remains intact and undamaged after the impact of a magnitude 7.1 earthquake in Southern California was felt throughout the Las Vegas area.
The Clark County Regional Flood Control District employees, civic leaders and first responder representatives took time to recall the devastating flood of July 8, 1999 and give precautionary warnings of the upcoming monsoon season.
Ridgecrest resident Wynn “Bear” Musser shows the damage at his trailer after an earthquake in July 2019. (Shea Johnson/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
