This dolphin is celebrating her first birthday this month. Meet Coco! She was born July 17, 2017 at the Mirage’s Secret Garden and Dolphin Habitat. Her trainers describe her as a little kid who loves to be adventurous and look at everything. She eats about 10.5 pounds of fish per day, and spends her days in the pool with her mom, Huf N Puf, her big sister Bella, and her Grandma, Duchess.
At midseason, the Lights FC are a consistently inconsistent team. The club is 5-7-5 and five points out of the playoff picture. The Lights have alternated between exciting wins and disappointing losses all year. They’ve also had constant roster turnover thanks to a midseason overhaul. The Lights are hopeful things will stabilize in the second half. Lights coach Isidro Sanchez
A pedestrian was killed Friday trying to cross Sahara Avenue near Maryland Parkway about 5 a.m. A sedan struck the pedestrian while the person was outside the crosswalk between Maryland Parkway and Pardee Place, according to Las Vegas police. Police also said the driver of the sedan remained at the site of the crash. The pedestrian was pronounced dead at the scene. This is the 75th fatal crash that Las Vegas police have investigated in 2018.
Las Vegas police are investigating after a man was shot multiple times early Friday morning.
The shooting was called in about 3:20 a.m. at the Harbor Island Apartments, 370 E. Harmon Ave., near Koval Lane.
The man was hospitalized and is expected to survive, but police are still searching for the shooter.
Henderson resident and Hall of Fame horse racing writer Jerry Izenberg witnessed another Triple Crown winner on Saturday. Justify became the second horse in three years to win the Kentucky Derby, Preakness and Belmont Stakes. Izenberg has witnessed five Triple Crown winners: Secretariat in 1973, Seattle Slew in 1977, Affirmed in 1978, American Pharoah in 2015 and now Justify. He said the jury is still out on where Justify will rank with the other great horses he has covered. But Izenberg says no horse compares to Secretariat, at least in his mind. “Honestly, you’re talking about absolutely great horses with these five Triple Crown winners. I’d have to say there’s Secretariat, and then there’s the other four horses — and that’s not to denigrate the other four horses.”
Winnipeg lost its NHL team to Arizona following the 1995–96 season. But the Jets returned in 2011 and are now in their first Western Conference final. Winnipeg leads the Golden Knights 1-0 in a best-of-seven series. Game 2 is Monday night, when another whiteout is expected from Winnipeg fans. A four-block party outside Bell MTS Place gets underway hours before the puck drops. And, win or lose, lasts for hours after the game concludes.
Radio host Art Bell dies at 72. Longtime radio host Art Bell died Friday at his Pahrump home, the Nye County Sheriff’s Office announced. Bell was born in Jacksonville, North Carolina, on June 17, 1945. Bell’s paranormal-themed show, “Coast to Coast AM,” was syndicated on about 500 North American stations in the 1990s.
Centennial’s baseball team beat Cimarron-Memorial 3-0 on Friday. Nik Dobar went the distance and struck out five. Michael Jones started the scoring with a sun-aided triple to right field in the fourth. Centennial added runs in the fifth and the sixth, and worked around trouble in the field. Centennial improved to 17-5, 11-1 in Northwest League play.
Several months ago, the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority set out to market the city as the sports capital of the world. With the addition of the Golden Knights and the Raiders, LVCVA saw the perfect opportunity to do so. The Knights’ success and current Stanley Cup playoff run has resulted in a marketing marriage with Las Vegas that has been far more successful than anyone could have imagined. This season, the Knights have managed to unite the community and made hockey fans around the country take notice. “The Knights, in my mind, really put the exclamation point that we’re the sports capital of the world, not only what they’ve done on the ice in this historic season but how they brought the community together.” Lisa Motley, director of sports marketing and special events for the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority Professional sports have been a staple for Las Vegas for decades with championship boxing matches, PGA golf tour events and the National Finals Rodeo. But big-league teams kept their distance from Nevada, due to lingering fears of sports betting somehow influencing games. “Las Vegas stands for something much more extensive and expansive now than what it once did” David Carter, executive director of the University of Southern California’s Marshall Sports Business Institute
Each spring, cottony blobs appear in the branches of desert almond bushes across the Mojave. The silken colonies are spun by Western tent caterpillars. The caterpillars eat newly sprouted leaves and grow to about two inches in length. After a month or two, they will leave their tents to spin cocoons. A few weeks later, they will emerge as nondescript brown moths.
