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‘Star Wars’ VR experience coming to Las Vegas Strip early 2018

Location-based VR startup The Void is getting ready to open two additional locations in early 2018: The startup will open new Void Experience Centers in the Grand Canal Shoppes at The Venetian in Las Vegas as well as in the Glendale Galleria in Glendale, CA early next year, it announced Tuesday.

Las Vegas morning update for Tuesday, December 19th
 
Las Vegas morning update for Tuesday, December 19th

Tuesday’s headlines: report says CSN professor having sex in public caught on video, lawyer for driver in crash that killed three had a seizure, Lady Gaga to announce residency in late 2018. Elaine Wilson/Las Vegas Review-Journal

BLM launches roundup of problem wild burros north of Pahrump

The Bureau of Land Management began a roundup Tuesday of about 75 burros that have been entering Pahrump, damaging fences, water lines and vegetation on private property and causing a hazard on state Route 160.

 
Disney adds Donald Trump to its Hall of Presidents

President Donald Trump will make his animatronic debut Tuesday at the Hall of Presidents at Walt Disney World’s Magic Kingdom in Orlando.

Thrill-seeker gets OK to try for land-speed record in Nevada

A 76-year-old thrill-seeker from Parkland, Washington, is headed to Nevada next year in hopes of breaking the world land-speed record — and the sound barrier — in a car built from the husk of an old fighter jet.

Land-speed record try approved in Nevada
 
Land-speed record try approved in Nevada

The Bureau of Land Management on Monday approved a bid to break the land-speed record next year in a desert valley in central Nevada.

South Carolina capital may be 1st city to ban gun bump stocks

South Carolina’s capital on Tuesday could become the first U.S. city to ban the use of bump stocks, a gun accessory that has drawn national scrutiny after being found among the Las Vegas mass shooter’s arsenal of weapons in October.