Off-duty pilots from Spirit Airlines picketed outside McCarran International Airport as a measure to urge management to resume labor contract negotiations. (Gabriella Benavidez/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
Clark players and coaches discuss their matchup Saturday with Sierra Vista at Clark High School on Thursday, Sept. 21, 2017. (Damon Seiters/ Las Vegas Review-Journal)
Golden Knights forward David Perron talks about the team’s 5-2 loss to the Sharks in San Jose on Thursday, Sept. 21, 2017. (David Schoen/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
A Salt Lake City firm has bought several Las Vegas apartment complexes. All told, Bridge Investment Group acquired eight complexes. The sale is valued at nearly $130 million deal. The information came from Charlotte Morse, director of investor relations and marketing for Bridge. (Las Vegas Review-Journal)
The Rolling Stones’ first ever major exhibition, Exhibitionism, will be featured at the Palazzo hotel-casino starting September 23, 2017, through January 31, 2018. (Gabriella Benavidez/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
Road-rage incident leaves one man dead, sex, cover-up at Las Vegas fire station alleged in document, indictment dismissed against Las Vegas attorney
Bryan Salmond and Michael Gehlken discuss Donald Penn’s holdout, response to Khalil Mack and Derek Carr as well as other news and notes from Raiders practice. (Las Vegas Review-Journal)
For Covering the Cage, Heidi Fang, Adam Hill, and Gilbert Manzano report from outside T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas as Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Conor McGregor make their grand arrivals. (Las Vegas Review-Journal)
Review-Journal sports reporter Adam Hill and videographer Heidi Fang returned Tuesday for their weekly UFC and MMA update on the Covering The Cage Facebook page. This week the pair welcomed UFC Hall of Famer Urijah Faber to talk about his retirement and also previewed the Floyd Mayweather Jr.-Conor McGregor megafight. (Las Vegas Review-Journal)
The Review-Journal’s Todd Dewey, handicapper Kelly Stewart (@KellyInVegas) and Sunset Station sports book director Chuck Esposito preview the Vikings’ season in the 12th of a series of 32 NFL team videos in 32 days. (Las Vegas Review-Journal)
Over 70 senior citizens attended a Hawaiian luau at the Doolittle Senior Center in Las Vegas. (Gabriella Benavidez/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
1. A Las Vegas police officer charged with possession and distribution of child pornography died by suicide the night before his sentencing.
2. A Clark County resident hit jackpot Saturday night at Ellis Island Casino and Brewery.
3. CCSD Superintendent Pat Skorkowsky is not happy with how marijuana tax money is being distributed to schools.
Why would someone want to use liquid nitrogen when it came to serving ice cream? Let one of the owners of Sweetspot Nitrogen Ice Cream & Boba Tea explain why. (Gabriella Benavidez/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
The Clark County School District and Cox Las Vegas partnered for their 10th annual back-to-school fair at the Galleria at Sunset mall.
Coach Manleo Miranda talks about winning a youth soccer national championship after returning to Las Vegas on July 21, 2017.
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)
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
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)
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.
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.
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.