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Lawyers urge acquittal for man accused of killing girl, mom

Lawyers for a 27-year-old man accused of raping and killing a woman and her 10-year-old daughter told jurors Tuesday that he should be acquitted, criticizing the value of forensic evidence against him.

A month later, Las Vegas shooting crime scene still frozen in time

It’s been a month since a gunman aimed a hail of automatic gunfire toward thousands of country music fans on the Strip, killing 58 and injuring over 500 more, but the concert grounds have sat as if frozen in time as a large and public crime scene.

Firm to review jet fuel tanks after Las Vegas shooting

A leading aviation consultant has been hired to review the safety of McCarran International Airport’s fuel system after one of its jet fuel tanks was struck by rifle fire during the deadly mass shooting on the Las Vegas Strip.

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Judge wants to hear from doctor about Nevada’s execution cocktail

A day after the resignation of Nevada’s medical examiner who concocted a three-drug cocktail for an execution slated next month, a Las Vegas judge ordered testimony from another doctor about the state’s proposed method of lethal injection.

Titus urges full funding of grants after Las Vegas shooting

Nevada Democrat urges Homeland Security Secretary-nominee Kirstjen Nielsen to erase proposed budget cuts to the Urban Area Security Initiative grants in light of the Las Vegas mass shooting.

Route 91 vendors can’t retrieve goods at Las Vegas shooting scene

A court order has been blamed for keeping Route 91 Harvest festival vendors from retrieving equipment and merchandise left at MGM Resorts International’s concert venue during the panic of the Strip shooting.

 
Trial opens in claw hammer murder of Las Vegas woman, girl

Opening statements are slated to start Tuesday afternoon in the death penalty trial of a man charged with raping and killing a 10-year-old Las Vegas girl and her mother in 2012.

Las Vegas shooting details may not be known for years

Questions loom about what drove heavy gambler Stephen Paddock to carry out his diabolical plot and fire into a crowd of Las Vegas concert-goers, but the answers may not be known for months — or even years.

Weapons, poison, even bodies can turn up in Las Vegas hotel rooms

After the Las Vegas Strip shooting, questions remain for how over a week’s time the shooter smuggled an arsenal of weapons into a hotel room. But the shooter is not the only person to use the privacy that comes with a hotel room in the Las Vegas Valley.

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