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.
