Roxanne Loyed, Miracle League executive director, talks about the growth of the league since forming in 2009. (Ron Kantowski/ Las Vegas Review Journal)
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Allie Rossi and Alexis Vargas participate in a balloon release during a candlelight vigil at Knickerbocker Park in Las Vegas Friday, March 30, 2018.
Allie’s brother, Albert “A.J.” Rossi, along with fellow Centennial High School students Dylan Mack and Brooke Hawley, died in a car crash caused by a drunk driver in Huntington Beach, Calif. early Thursday. Vargas, who was also on the trip, was injured in the accident. (Chase Stevens/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
Cora Williams moved into a house in west Las Vegas around 1957. Today, her son Howard Williams occupies the same boyhood home that his mother built.
On April 26, 1964, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. came to Las Vegas to speak at the Las Vegas NAACP chapter’s Freedom Banquet. Though the passing decades have left those who attended with sketchy memories of exactly what was said, Esther Langston still remembers the power of the man and his message. (Andrea Cornejo/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
WBO heavyweight champion Joseph Parker has trained in Las Vegas for the past four years. The New Zealander will go toe-to-toe with Anthony Joshua in an unification bout for the WBA and IBF heavyweight championship on Mar. 31.
Three Centennial High School students were killed Thursday morning in Southern California when their vehicle was struck by a suspected drunken driver while they were enjoying their spring break, according to a family member of one of the victims.
A man was shot and killed Thursday morning in North Las Vegas. A police spokesman said a man was taken to a hospital where he died. NLV police blocked off a portion of North Daley Street near East Carey Avenue.
The 5th Annual Migratory Bird Day was held at the Clark County Wetlands Park. Bizuayehu Tesfaye/Las Vegas Review-Journal
Two men were hospitalized after being shotTuesday night at a house party in east Las Vegas. The shooting occurred about 10:50 p.m. at a home on Buck Island Street, near Owens Avenue and Sloan Lane. Police blocked off the neighborhood around Owens Avenue and Sloan Lane while they investigated. Police said all suspects are in custody. The two men ended up at UMC with wounds to their legs, Both were expected to survive their injuries.
Las Vegas police are asking for help finding a man they said groped a woman in a south Las Vegas Valley restroom. (Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department)