The Las Vegas Review-Journal asked for public records to investigate constable spending. But Henderson Constable Earl Mitchell hired outside counsel to fight the request. And he wanted the county to pay nearly $7,500 for those attorneys. The county declined. And records show the constable’s office owes taxpayers $700,000. County officials said the money will be repaid over three years. Mitchell abandoned his re-election before the Review-Journal story ran.
Body camera footage shows Las Vegas police in Stephen Paddock’s Mandalay Bay hotel room after breaching the door on the night of the Oct. 1 shooting.
Las Vegas police released body camera footage that depicts the moment officers breached Oct. 1 gunman Stephen Paddock’s Mandalay Bay suite.
The McCaw School of Mines simulated underground mine attraction has been welcoming field trips and other visitors since 1996. On April 30, they welcomed the 100,000th visitor. K.M. Cannon/Las Vegas Review-Journal
Wednesday’s headlines: Botched robbery attempt leaves a man dead, officer breaching Oct. 1 gunman’s Mandalay Bay suite did not activate body camera, and a wanted man has been arrested.
The man Las Vegas police killed Thursday at an apartment complex had a history of domestic violence, the police department said.
Monday’s headlines: California cliff crash may have been intentional, a drunk man accidentally set himself on fire, and Las Vegas’ famous underground home will get a rare public viewing.
Henderson Constable Earl Mitchell walked away from his re-election bid. Just hours before the Las Vegas Review-Journal posted a story questioning his spending. Now, the Nevada Attorney General wants a criminal investigation. The paper found Mitchell wrote himself $70,000 in checks from county funds. Withdrew deputy pay at casino and video poker bars. And went on trips to places his adult children live using county funds. Mitchell has refused to discuss the spending.
Tesla Driver Dies While Using Autopilot The automaker confirmed the driver didn’t have his hands on the wheel for about six seconds before the Model X collided with a highway barrier. The car then caught on fire. Tesla The accident happened days after an Uber self-driving test vehicle killed a pedestrian in Arizona.
Elmo and Abby Cadabby of Sesame Street visited children of Family Promise Las Vegas and Hill & Dale Child Development Center at Community Lutheran Church for photos, singing and dancing. Kevin Cannon/ Las Vegas Review-Journal
Two students at different Clark County schools arrested for guns. The first incident Thursday occurred at Palo Verde High School in Las Vegas at 7:30 a.m., just before school started. A male student at the school had left a duffel bag unattended, according to school police. The second incident happened around 1:30 p.m. at Desert Rose High School in North Las Vegas. A 17-year-old female was reported to school administrators.
Friday’s headlines: 2 students at different Clark County schools arrested for guns, Woman dies after tour bus hits her at east Las Vegas bus stop, Residents’ plan could create Nevada’s third-largest city
F.R.E.E. International, a human trafficking advocacy group, organized The Big Search where hundreds of volunteers hit the streets with fliers of missing children. (K.M. Cannon/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
Review-Journal reporters Elaine Wilson, Jeff German and Rachel Crosby go over the new developments surrounding Douglas Haig and casino security measures.
A year after Nevada health officials closed a taxpayer-funded home where mentally ill people lived in filthy conditions, a mental health clinic continued placing people there — until reporting by the Las Vegas Review-Journal prompted state regulators to shut it down again this week. The home is owned by Emperatriz “Emper” Ebiya and for years was part of a state program that pays people to house mentally ill clients in their homes. But in December 2016 state officials discovered “deplorable conditions” at her home and shut it down. The squalid conditions at such homes are a widespread problem in Nevada, which has 142 community-based homes for people with mental illness. State officials declined to provide addresses for homes of mentally ill residents. The Review-Journal found and visited six of the homes in Las Vegas. A recent audit uncovered conditions — human feces, broken glass, expired food, filthy mattresses, mildew and rodents — at 37 homes statewide.
Federal prosecutors in Nevada have charged Arizona resident Douglas Haig with conspiracy to manufacture and sell armor-piercing ammunition. According to a statement from the U.S. attorney’s office in Las Vegas, Haig appeared Friday afternoon before U.S. Magistrate Judge Michelle Burns in Phoenix and was released on bond pending a Feb. 15 status conference there. If convicted, Haig could face up to five years in prison. A criminal complaint filed Friday morning is sealed in Nevada, but it appears in Arizona court records. According to the document, the FBI has determined that “two unfired cartridges bearing Haig’s fingerprints” were found in gunman Stephen Paddock’s suite at Mandalay Bay. At a news conference Friday at his lawyer’s office, Haig said Paddock demonstrated no unusual behavior when he came to Haig’s home in Mesa to purchase approximately 720 rounds of tracer ammunition. “Business records reveal that Haig sold armor piercing ammunition throughout the U.S., including Nevada, Texas, Virginia, Wyoming, and South Carolina,” according to the U.S. attorney’s office.
Cocktail waitresses at the The Mirage, then run by Steve Wynn, were pressured by supervisors to have sex with casino customers dating as far back as 1989 and during that time one server claimed the casino mogul pressured her into having sex, according to a court filing. The claims could have been made public nearly two decades ago, but the Las Vegas Review-Journal decided against publishing the story in 1998. Two of the cocktail servers spoke to RJ reporter Carri Geer. Geer said she remembers then-publisher Sherman Frederick saying the woman should undergo lie detector tests. But after the polygraph results came back, Geer said she was ordered to delete the story she had written. But she saved a printout of the story, the court records from the case, the polygraph results and the $600 bill for the polygraph examinations. “I always wanted to tell these women’s stories. That’s why I saved this file for 20 years.” – Carri Geer
Billionaire Steve Wynn faced allegations of pressuring a waitress into sex about 30 years ago. He allegedly told the woman he had “never had a grandmother before” and wanted “to see how it feels,” according to a court document and interviews with the Review-Journal. Wynn, the CEO of Wynn Resorts, was accused of sexual misconduct with several employees in a Wall Street Journal story published last week. Wynn has denied the allegations in the Journal report. The woman, who is now 75, said her supervisor told her she had to have sex with Wynn to keep her job at the Mirage, according to her account and a sworn statement by Earlene Wiggins. Wynn, 76, has not responded to multiple requests from the Review-Journal for an interview.
Douglas Haig, the man who was identified this week as a “person of interest” in the Las Vegas shooting investigation, said Friday that he does not believe the tracer ammunition he sold to gunman Stephen Paddock was used in the mass shooting. (Ross Leviton/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
North Las Vegas police are investigating a shooting Friday morning that left two people dead.
A 43-year-old woman and a man, whose age is unknown, were shot and killed around 5 a.m. at the Colonial Grand at Desert Vista apartments. Two children who lived with the woman were not at home at the time of the shooting and are both safe, police said. The shooter remained at-large Friday morning. Police said they would release a suspect description later in the day, if available.
Friday’s headlines: Employee shot after altercation outside east Las Vegas market, Las Vegas smoke shop clerk gets probation for fatally shooting boy, 1 dead, 1 injured in North Las Vegas shooting
The Las Vegas Victims’ Fund is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit that was set up on behalf of Clark County to accept money for victims of the Las Vegas shooting. 100% of donations to the Las Vegas Victims’ Fund will go to three categories of victims.
Saturday’s headlines: ‘Good Samaritan’ killed chasing robber in Las Vegas, Manager of Summerlin storage facility allegedly shoots man at facility, Las Vegas shows its strength in shooting benefit concert
Thursday’s headlines: NDOT investigates possible moonshine sales in office, Pizza Hut settles 2009 lawsuit for $9M, restaurants close as Monte Carlo transitions to Park MGM. Elaine Wilson/Las Vegas Review-Journal
Assistant Sheriff Todd Fasulo, Clark County Commission Chair Steve Sisolak, Rep. Dina Titus D-Nev, Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto, D-Nev, and Lt. Gov. Mark Hutchison hold a media briefing to recap the day of response to the Las Vegas Strip shooting.
The Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department reported at least 59 dead, more than 525 injured. Police found 23 guns in the shooter’s Mandalay Bay hotel room, 19 more in his Mesquite residence. Blood donations centers have asked those wishing to donate to wait until Tuesday afternoon at the soonest. Metro is still investigating any potential motives the shooter might have had.
About 50 people, mostly airmen, gathered in a chapel on Nellis Air Force Base for a candlelight vigil Monday in the aftermath of Sunday night’s massacre.
Light peered through stained glass windows and the sound of fighter jets occasionally buzzed overhead as Lt. Col. Dwayne Jones addressed the congregation.
Jones said his main message was to find positivity and not let evil overcome good.
The gunman who opened fire and killed at least 58 people was a 64-year-old Mesquite resident Stephen Paddock was in a 32nd-floor room of the Mandalay Bay, where he checked in on September 28 As officers entered his room, Paddock shot and killed himself, police said early Monday. Sheriff Joe Lombardo said officers found 23 rifles in the man’s room. Paddock’s brother, Eric, said, “It’s like an asteroid just fell on top of our family.”
Las Vegas police said Monday that at least 59 people died in the mass shooting at the Route 91 Harvest festival on Sunday night. Take time to remember some of the victims who are pictured here. (Zac Pacleb/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
