The Las Vegas hotel that was fined for violating COVID-19 directives after hosting an “Evangelicals for Trump” event is suing the state and the city. (Las Vegas Review-Journal)
The Las Vegas hotel that was fined for violating COVID-19 directives after hosting an “Evangelicals for Trump” event is suing the state and the city. (Las Vegas Review-Journal)
The district’s plan seeks to divide students into two cohorts to attend school in person for two days a week and learn from home for three days a week.
Alcohol is now allowed in curbside meal pickups in Las Vegas. The city of Las Vegas has responded to calls to allow restaurants offering curbside pickup service to include alcohol in those meals. (Las Vegas Review-Journal)
In an interactive Scoreboard by tech company Unacast, organizations can measure and understand the efficacy of social distancing. (Las Vegas Review-Journal)
The pop star was planning to drop her sixth LP, “Chromatica,” on April 10, but she’s made the “tough decision” to push back the launch following the coronavirus outbreak. (Las Vegas Review-Journal)
The U.S. Department of Labor released the shattering numbers on Thursday. Jobless claims had been as low as 282,000 the previous week. The 3.28 million jobless claims for last week is more than double the 1.5 million new claims that analysts were expecting. (Las Vegas Review-Journal)
Meet the newest Golden Knights: Robin Lehner and Nick Cousins. (Las Vegas Review-Journal)
According to a 2018 report from the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority, bars and lounges are showing to be more popular than night clubs in the valley. While 7 percent of respondents said they went to a hotel nightclub, 52 percent made a stop at a hotel bar or lounge. Additionally, the number of visitors who said they’d visited a hotel nightclub with a cover dropped from 13 percent to 7 percent between 2017 and 2018. Matthew Minichino, vice president of nightlife and daylife for Hard Rock International
Las Vegas home prices in January grew fastest among major U.S. markets for the eighth month in a row, S&P Dow Jones Indices reported. Southern Nevada’s prices were up 10.5% year-over-year, more than double the national rate of 4.3%. In 2018, prices rose in every ZIP code in the Las Vegas Valley for the second year in a row, according to SalesTraq. Prices grew fastest in older, more centrally located areas. But prices were highest in the suburbs.
All Charges Against Jussie Smollett Have Been Dropped During a surprise court hearing in
Chicago on Tuesday, prosecutors decided to
drop all charges against the ‘Empire’ actor. Attorneys Tina Glandian and Patricia Brown Holmes The actor will forfeit the $10,000
he posted for bond as part of a
deferred prosecution deal. Prosecutors previously alleged that
Smollett hired two men to stage a
hate crime against himself. Smollett has maintained his innocence
from the beginning and pleaded not
guilty to 16 felony counts on March 14. Attorneys Tina Glandian and Patricia Brown Holmes Attorneys Tina Glandian and Patricia Brown Holmes
The highest fines assessed by the Nevada Gaming Commission, according to commission Chairman Tony Alamo: 1) Wynn Resorts Ltd., $20 million, 2019 2) CG Technology (then known as Cantor G&W Holdings), $5.5 million, 2014 3) The Mirage, $5 million ($3 million fine, $2 million compensatory payment), 2003 4) Stardust, $3 million, 1985 5) Santa Fe Station, $2.2 million ($1.5 million fine, $700,000 compensatory payment), 2005 6) Las Vegas Sands, $2 million, 2016 7) CG Technology, $1.75 million, 2018 8) CG Technology, $1.5 million (also $25,000 in escrow for underpaid patrons), 2016 9) Caesars Entertainment, $1.5 million, 2015 10) Imperial Palace, $1.5 million, 1989 11) Peppermill Casinos, $1 million, 2014
Las Vegas house prices are rising Southern Nevada prices were up 12.8 percent year-over-year in October. Nationally, home prices were up 5.5 percent year-over-year . Buyers are pulling back. Around 7,000 Las Vegas houses were on the market without offers at the end of November, up 54 percent year-over-year. Las Vegas home prices have been rising at one of the fastest rates in the country
Developer Lance Bradford plans to build a 300,000-square-foot retail and office project in Henderson. (Eli Segall/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
Resorts World Las Vegas initially was supposed to open in 2016. But as time went on, construction seemed minimal, and the expected opening kept being delayed. It’s now set to open in 2020, and the project is showing visible progress. More than 1,000 construction workers are on site, with several thousand expected by 2019.
Steve Wynn, the founder of Wynn Resorts, stepped down as CEO and chairman of Wynn Resorts in February amid investigations of sexual impropriety. Wynn released a statement at the time saying “In the last couple of weeks, I have found myself the focus of an avalanche of negative publicity.” “Therefore, effective immediately, I have decided to step down as CEO and Chairman of the Board of Wynn Resorts, a company I founded and that I love.” Wynn Resorts also released a statement saying, “Wynn Resorts remains as committed as ever to upholding the highest standards and being an inclusive and supportive employer.”
Miami developer Related Group is looking to build apartment complexes in the Las Vegas suburbs. The company had ventured to Las Vegas during the mid-2000s bubble to build condo towers. It never built them and instead flipped the project sites for big paydays. Related is returning amid an apartment-construction boom that’s heavily concentrated in the suburbs, especially the southwest valley.
November 2017: the White House imposed 20 per cent tariffs on imported Canadian lumber March 2018: 25 percent tariff on steel and 10 percent tariff on aluminum go into effect with exemptions for selected countries July: US tariffs on $34 billion of Chinese imports go into effect August: US imposes tariffs on $16 billion of imports from China September: US tariffs on $200 billion of Chinese imports take effect Source: Peterson Institute for International Economics, https://piie.com/system/files/documents/trump-trade-war-timeline.pdf
Have a look at some of the most unforgettable photos from Review-Journal photojournalists this past week.
Here are the top five defensive players to watch in in Southern Nevada next season. No. 5: DT Jordan Butler, Desert Pines No. 4: LB Kyle Beaudry, Liberty No. 3: DE Darnell Washington, Desert Pines No. 2: CB Kyu Kelly, Bishop Gorman No. 1: DE Treven Ma’ae, Bishop Gorman
LV Bowl head John Saccenti has major decisions to make. The bowl will move to new Raiders stadium in 2020. The Las Vegas Bowl has had top choice of the Mountain West since 2006. Mario Cristobal and Oregon represented the Pac-12 last year The Pac-12 could face another Power Five team in the Las Vegas Bowl in future years.
Dead Body Found in Home of New York Giants’ Janoris Jenkins ‘TMZ Sports’ broke the story and said the Major Crimes Unit is conducting an investigation. The deceased man’s body was reportedly discovered by a worker in the basement of Jenkins’ New Jersey home on Tuesday morning. The report also claims the NFL cornerback was out of state during the time of the body’s discovery. The identity of the victim and the cause of death are unclear.
Racial prejudice. Religious persecution. Gender equality. Those ripped-from-the-headlines topics may be timely, but they’re also timeless. Shakespeare’s “The Merchant of Venice” and “Othello” illustrate the point. So do the musical “Big River,” based on Mark Twain’s “Huckleberry Finn,” and the farcical “The Foreigner.” The festival’s first production of “Henry VI Part One” also highlights the season, as does “An Iliad” and “The Merry Wives of Windsor.”
One person was displaced early Tuesday morning after a fire at a central valley apartment complex.
The fire was called in about 3:30 a.m. at the Lantana Apartments at 1200 S. Torrey Pines Drive, near Charleston Boulevard.
The fire started with an air conditioning unit on the roof of a building in the complex. The fire didn’t extend to the inside of the building, but one of the apartments was damaged by smoke and water.
No injuries were reported, and the fire was out within about 30 minutes.
Ryan Reaves has become the Golden Knights latest unlikely hero. Reaves scored the series-clinching goal in the Western Conference Finals. It was his first goal with the Golden Knights. It came after Reaves sat for Vegas’ first nine playoff games. Now he’s become a integral part of the team’s forecheck. He gets his chance and he goes in there and he played great hockey. It’s not surprising.
Las Vegas racer Noah Gragson predicted he was in for a “rude awakening” in his NASCAR Xfinity Series debut. Instead, he finished second at Richmond Raceway in Virginia. Gragson normally drives for fellow Las Vegan Kyle Busch in the NASCAR Truck Series. The race at Richmond was one of three in which he will compete for former Super Bowl coach Joe Gibbs. The second one is this weekend at Talladega Superspeedway in Alabama, a restrictor-plate track at which Gragson has little experience. “Talladega, that one might come back in a ball or something. Man, I’m not too good of a restrictor-plate racer just because I don’t have a lot of experience.”
Bill Cosby Found Guilty on All Charges The 80-year-old actor has been convicted on three counts of aggravated indecent assault, all of which have a penalty of 10 years in prison. In 2004, Cosby drugged and raped Andrea Constand, a Temple University employee, when she went to him for career advice. Despite only being convicted for Constand’s case, multiple other women have accused Cosby of sexual misconduct. The verdict was delivered by the jury on Thursday after more than 14 hours of deliberation. This was the second trial for Constrand’s case against Cosby after the first trial ended in a mistrial when the jury could not come to a conclusion.
Temperatures are expected to reach the high 90s for Knights playoff games against the San Jose Sharks at T-Mobile Arena this weekend. The Golden Knights are making adjustments to keep the condition of the ice in tip-top shape. “The whole idea is that ambient temperature and inside temperature have a relationship,” said T-Mobile conversion manager and ice maker George Salami. Sometimes when it is humid outside, fog can form on the ice. During the 1975 Stanley Cup finals between the Buffalo Sabres and Philadelphia Flyers, a dense fog formed at Buffalo Memorial Auditorium. The Sabres won in double overtime on a shot by Rene Robert that Flyers goalie Bernie Parent — and most in attendance — did not see.
Lights FC striker Samuel Ochoa has started the season in a slump. Ochoa has no goals or assists in the team’s first four games. Still, he doesn’t plan to change up his routine to get going. It’s just a matter of time. We all go through a few games without scoring a goal. Except (Lionel) Messi and (Cristiano) Ronaldo. Coach Isidro Sanchez also believes Ochoa’s time is coming. When Ochoa goes that many minutes without scoring, yes it’s a lot for my striker. … But each day, each minute, he’s getting closer.