The famed author Ernest Hemingway ventured on a two-day getaway with his wife, Mary, to Las Vegas in March 1959.
Jeff Burbank
Before returning to the Review-Journal in 2022, Jeff spent seven years as a content development specialist at the Mob Museum. Before that, he worked as a reporter for the Bay City News Service, the Las Vegas Sun, UPI, Los Angeles Times and others, including the RJ from 1991-1995. He also has considerable experience teaching at UNLV, San Jose State and DeVry University. Jeff was a Fulbright Scholar in 2011.
Royal Canadian Air Force reconnaissance pilot Gordon Gibson wrote a remarkable letter about the D-Day landing to his 19-year-old British wife.
Shane Valentine, 31, had been a person of interest in the still-unsolved 2016 shooting deaths of Sydney Land, 21, and Nehemiah “Neo” Kauffman, 20.
“I’ll bet 85 percent of the Strip is done with Dryvit,” said Kevin Norton, outside sales representative for a local distributor of the building material.
The home of the late Naoko Takemaru, one of three UNLV professors killed during the Dec. 6 on-campus shooting, was reportedly burglarized last week, according to police.
A veterans memorial cemetery in Boulder City at first accepted, then rejected family’s bid to have father, mother buried there.
Noel Waters, convicted of 14 felony crimes, was arrested after a report of a man pointing a gun outside of the Lowe’s store on East Charleston Blvd.
The Metropolitan Police Department released details on Friday surrounding the use of deadly force that occurred after an officer used a patrol vehicle to strike and kill a man suspected in a fatal stabbing earlier this week.
A 16-year-old boy died from injuries to his neck when he struck a cable stretched across a paved trail while driving his minibike, police said in a report.
A woman is facing charges after allegedly luring an intoxicated man from a Strip hotel to what he thought was an Uber but later found he was being taken to a motel where he was robbed, according to police.
The bird strike affected the airplane’s right engine as it was nearing Harry Reid International Airport.
Las Vegas police followed a trail of blood to find the suspect, who had a fresh cut on his right hand, in the stabbing of the RTC worker.
Danielle “Pieper” Chio will serve on the bench in the Las Vegas court’s Department 7 while Jacob Reynolds will wear the robes in Department 29.
The baby was among five others injured in a three-car crash Saturday when a woman suspected of driving while impaired drove a pickup truck through a red light.
Police provided more details Tuesday about the fatal shootings of two men by officers.