Mexican freetail bats took up residence about 25 to 30 years ago at McCarran International Airport’s employee parking garage. They roost within 2-inch nooks behind concrete panels lining the southern end of structure. Brett Riddle, a professor for UNLV’s School of Life Sciences There’s no official count of McCarran’s bat population, but they could number in the thousands. The bats primarily eat insects. They’ve been spotted feeding on bugs flying around the light beam shooting from Luxor. Cris Tomlinson, a biologist for the Nevada Department of Wildlife. (Las Vegas Review-Journal)
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The attorney general’s office announced $1.2 billion in settlements from opioid litigation. The funds are going toward youth-centered programs.
Police said a vehicle pulled up next to the detective’s vehicle and “a female voice could be heard asking if there was anyone in the car.”
Authorities have identified the 17-year-old Las Vegas boy who died last week in a motorcycle crash in the northwest Las Vegas Valley.
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A woman is accused of stabbing a man, who was in a relationship with her, on the bus near the Las Vegas Ballpark, according to police.
Officers arrived and entered a home for a welfare check and located a deceased male suffering from what appeared to be a gunshot wound, police said in a statement.
At least two people have been caught in Las Vegas Valley floods this year. One person escaped a flood near Caliche Way, according to Clark County Regional Flood Control District.
The Aces’ odds to win the WNBA title shot up to double digits for the first time since their inaugural season in Las Vegas during their recent 2-5 slide.
Some, including our president it seems, would rather hide our troubled past.
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