Goaltender Marc-Andre Fleury talks about fans and being picked up by the Vegas Golden Knights on Wednesday, June 21, 2017 in the NHL expansion draft. (Las Vegas Review-Journal)
Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department Assistant Sheriff Tim Kelly discuss an officer involved shooting.
Ross and Yolanda Strauss face a murder charge following Brandon Strauss’s death in February. The Clark County coroner says Brandon died from sepsis following severe burns his parents say he suffered in a bath. Elaine Wilson/Las Vegas Review-Journal
Orangetheory Fitness uses heart rate monitors and color codes to make getting in shape an understandable undertaking. (John Przybys/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
The Safari Motel, known as the most dangerous hotel in all of Las Vegas, used to be a popular tourist spot. Now it’s a crime trap the city wants to close down. According to Metro, officers have been called to the 21-room Safari on 172 occasions since March 2016. Police, fire and health departments along with the city attorney are now working to shut down the motel, and perhaps seize property.
The arrival of the Las Vegas Raiders could bring back to life the high-speed rail project. A study from a top transportation forecasting consultant says that an estimated 27 percent of travelers from Southern California would take a high-speed rail to Las Vegas. The train system would link Las Vegas with Los Angeles and Anaheim, California, by way of Victorville and Palmdale, California. Relocation of the Raiders gives Southern Californians a new reason to make quick trips to Las Vegas.
And the landlord for Bishop Gorman blames the inability to pay construction costs for the school’s new campus on the family that has been a longtime donor and built the campus. The debt to Tiberti Construction comes from unpaid construction bills, professional services and legal fees. According to initial documents filed in federal bankruptcy court, the $29 million arbitration award is the largest known debt by the landlord.
Two UNLV students talk about how they ended up in a remedial math class. (Rachel Aston/Las Vegas Review-Journal) @rookie__rae
1. An American Airlines employee has been suspended after a video posted on Friday showed an altercation where one of the crew members violently took a stroller from a woman, who was carrying her small child. The crew member began hitting the woman with the stroller, just barely missing the child. The incident started over a dispute as to whether the woman could bring her stroller on the flight. American Airlines is investigating the incident.
2. The money has begun rolling in for the Raiders’ planned stadium in Las Vegas with room-tax revenue specifically allocated to pay off stadium construction bonds that are running about 25 percent ahead of projections. Projections calculated by the Southern Nevada Tourism Infrastructure Committee forecasted a monthly revenue of about $3.7 million when it was studied last year. Raiders President Marc Badain on Thursday confirmed that the Raiders took about 23,000 $100 deposits for personal seat license for tickets on the first day they were available, and the total now is over 40,000. Revenue generated by PSLs will be applied toward the Raiders’ $1.15 billion financial contribution for construction of a 65,000-seat domed stadium with an estimated price of $1.9 billion.
3. Federal prosecutors have filed trafficking and coercion charges against a Las Vegas man accused of driving a 15-year-old girl to a fire station for sex. Authorities claim Gino Miller, 23, forced the girl into prostitution just days before the firehouse encounter and acted as her pimp. The 46-year-old fire captain, Richard Loughry, is accused of paying the girl $300 for sex. Loughry is facing eight counts, including statutory sexual seduction, in Las Vegas Justice Court. (Gabriella Benavidez/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
Watch the highlights of the UFC 197 weigh-ins. All the fighters hit the scales at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas.
UFC 200 will take place at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas on July 9th. It features a women’s bantamweight title fight between Miesha Tate and Amanda Nunes, an interim featherweight title fight between Frankie Edgar and Jose Aldo, and more.
Rancho High teacher Jason Lofthouse is faces two felony charges of kidnapping and 10 lesser felony charges of sexual conduct between a school employee and pupil.
Asst. Sheriff Todd Fasulo speaks to local media about the extra measures Metro has put in place, along with the normal anti-terrorism protocol, in response to the terrorist attacks in Belgium.
Donald Trump delivers a speech to thousands at the South Point Arena in Las Vegas the night before the Republican caucuses.
Matt Youmans, Kelley Stewart and Tony Miller give their picks for NFL and college football for week seven.
A video released Thursday by the Nevada Division of Public Safety shows white smoke and explosions that preceded a fire Sunday in a state-owned, low-level radioactive waste dump at the US Ecology site. The video of the soil-capped Trench No. 14 was taken from a berm atop Trench 11 at the landfill site, 10 miles south of Beatty, Nev.
The Nevada Policy Research Institute says more than 3,600 jobs would be lost if the margin tax were voted into law. They hired renown domino toppling artist Robert Speca to set up a domino display to draw attention to a study that said this job loss is a possible outcome if the tax is approved.
Bill Rhoda, owner of the consulting company working on a proposed stadium for UNLV, discusses differences between UNLV’s project and stadiums that his company has worked on previously.