A Clark County woman filed a lawsuit Wednesday that claims her daughter was “viciously attacked” by Wayne Newton’s pet monkey during a tour of the Las Vegas entertainer’s home.
Carri Geer Thevenot
California native Carri Geer Thevenot graduated from CSU, Chico, and first worked as a reporter at the Chico Enterprise-Record. She joined the Review-Journal as a police reporter in 1991, after receiving a master's degree in journalism from Columbia University. She then spent most of her reporting career covering courts. In 2016, she became an assistant city editor before being promoted to Metro Editor. She was named Assistant Managing Editor - Metro and Business in January 2023.
One person was dead and two juveniles were in critical condition Friday after a shooting in Henderson, police said.
Las Vegas attorney Alexis Plunkett was arrested Tuesday on one count of bribing or intimidating a witness and one count of dissuading or preventing a person from testifying.
A man with a BB gun was arrested Wednesday after an encounter with Clark County Sheriff Joe Lombardo and Capt. James LaRochelle, Las Vegas police announced Friday.