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Massachusetts woman killed in Las Vegas shooting remembered

Hundreds of people have gathered to remember a 42-year-old Massachusetts woman who was among the 58 people killed in the mass shooting at a Las Vegas country music festival.

Mandalay Bay security guard skips TV interviews after Las Vegas shooting

Union official tells Review-Journal that the security guard who first encountered mass shooter Stephen Paddock was preparing to give interviews on Thursday when he left his Las Vegas hotel, possibly to seek medical attention.

Las Vegas Strip shooter may have checked out other music festivals

Investigators are looking into whether gunman Stephen Paddock scoped out bigger music festivals in Las Vegas and Chicago — and perhaps Boston’s Fenway Park — before setting up his perch in a casino hotel and raining deadly fire on country music fans.

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Drug given to Paddock calms some, provokes others, experts say

Diazepam, the anti-anxiety medicine prescribed for Las Vegas gunman less than four months before the mass shooting, has a deserved reputation as a Jekyll-and-Hyde drug, calming some and causing others to become more aggressive.

 
Shooter’s brother: ‘We have no idea how this happened’

The brother of Strip mass killer Stephen Paddock wept Monday morning as he reacted to the news of the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history.

Judge orders immediate jail for man who sold black rhino horns

The lucrative underworld of wildlife taxidermy led to conversations about a giraffe bust, which lead to emails about a finger necklace and a shrunken head, which lead two men to someone who said he could find a buyer interested in the horns of a critically endangered black rhinoceros.

Fatal shooting of man by Arizona officers declared legally justified

Two law enforcement officers were legally justified when they shot and killed a man in Kingman on May 14, the Mohave County attorney’s office determined after reviewing an investigation conducted by the Department of Public Safety.

Woman who groped passenger on flight from Las Vegas sentenced

An Oregon woman who licked, groped and verbally harassed a female passenger during a flight from Las Vegas to Portland was sentenced Monday to eight months of home detention.

Las Vegas man admitted killing daughter, according to police

The father of a 6-year-old girl whose body was found in an Illinois garage admitted killing her and concealing the body, according to a police report obtained Tuesday by The Associated Press.

Russian ‘thief-in-law’ arrested in Las Vegas, faces multiple charges

Federal prosecutors on Wednesday announced racketeering charges against more than two dozen reputed Russian mobsters and associates, including Razhden Shulaya, the alleged leader of a Soviet mafia syndicate who is accused of running gambling, stolen goods and protection rackets in several states across the country.

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