Las Vegas Review-Journal
Caesars to Fertitta in $17.6B purchase
Four years ago, Houston billionaire Tilman Fertitta gained a big foothold on the Las Vegas Strip with a highpriced real estate purchase. He then acquired shares in Wynn Resorts and became its largest stockholder. And now, with a blockbuster deal...
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UFC at the White House
Workers are pictured Wednesday constructing a fighting octagon ahead of an Ultimate Fighting Championship match on the South Lawn of the White House grounds in Washington. President Donald Trump is hosting a UFC match June 14.
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Sweep to Stanley
For the third time in nine seasons, the Vegas Golden Knights are headed to the Stanley Cup Final. The Knights punched their ticket with a 2-1 win against Colorado on Tuesday night at T-mobile Arena. It culminated an improbable 4-0 sweep in the...
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‘We owe them this day’
For Marine Corps veteran Richard “Tony” Marshall, Memorial Day is a time to pause and reflect. Marshall, who spoke at a ceremony honoring those who paid the ultimate sacrifice at Palm Mortuary-downtown in Las Vegas on Monday, reminded the dozens who...
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Those who gave their all
On his trips to Washington, D.C., former Green Beret Fred Horne could never bring himself to get up close to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial. Confronting the etched names of men he served with required a courage that the 20-year military veteran said he...
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911 call: Busch coughing up blood
Las Vegas native Kyle Busch was down on the ground and coughing up blood the evening prior to his death, according to a newly released 911 call. The call, provided by the Cabarrus County Sheriff’s Office in North Carolina on Friday morning, relays the...
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Historic school celebrates last day
The warm sun toasted the air of the asphalt playground at Goodsprings Elementary School, bringing a heat that could only signify the beginning of summer. While the start of summer break represents the end of a chapter for most schools, this year it...
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Knights start Final with win in Denver
DENVER — Dylan Coghlan knew he wasn’t guaranteed an NHL roster spot when he came back to the Vegas Golden Knights. But there was comfort coming back to the team that gave him his start in the league. It didn’t matter if it didn’t result in a ton of...
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Details out on Colo. River plan
The Trump administration is nearing intervention in the yearslong standstill among the seven states that share the Colorado River at a historic point of crisis. A 10-year federal plan would require the states to return to the negotiation table every...
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‘Great couple’ remembered
When Vincent Lopez walked to the front of the Smith’s Food and Drug near the intersection of Maryland Parkway and Silverado Ranch Road on Monday, he never expected so many people to be watching him. Roughly 200 people watched as Lopez took a...
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Town’s little secret
Primm has been Nevada’s lotto town for decades. For some, though, the real jackpot is spotting a rare bird. A stopover on the drive into Las Vegas from Los Angeles, Primm was once a thriving outpost for travelers, complete with themed casinos, an...
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‘Everybody started running’
Irma Velasquez and her daughter Brianna endured a terrifying experience at Legacy High School late Thursday morning. Irma Velasquez was in front of the school in North Las Vegas just after 11 a.m. to pick up her daughter when she noticed a handful of...
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Victim sought to reconnect with sons
One of the victims in Tuesday’s shooting at a southwest valley grocery store tried to reconnect with his estranged teenage sons just hours before the killings. Victor Frias Rosas and his wife, Amanda Frias Rosas, were killed while shopping at the...
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Cheers: Vegas gets another pro team
How did we get here? It’s a broad question with many answers, some that aren’t the easiest to come up with. Which is the perfect transition to talking about the Vegas Golden Knights. How did they get here? How did they get to within one win of a...
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Shooting leaves 2 dead
Police said a man armed with multiple weapons shot and killed the mother of his children and her current partner inside a busy south Las Vegas grocery store Tuesday before several witnesses tackled and subdued him. The suspect in the shooting, which...
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Parole board could free Ruggs
Former Raiders wide receiver Henry Ruggs told Nevada parole commissioners Monday that he knows he will never be able to alleviate the pain he caused when he killed a young woman in a 2021 crash. “I take full responsibility for my actions that led to...
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From polluted to paradise
For decades, petroleum and arsenic seeped into the groundwater aquifer below a Union Pacific Railroad rail yard a stone’s throw from Fremont Boulevard. Today, after the city of Las Vegas leveraged millions in Environmental Protection Agency funding...
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From Spirit Airlines to dispirited outlook
Jamie Patzer would have celebrated her 20-year anniversary at Spirit Airlines as a flight attendant on Friday. Now, she is a part of the 999 Las Vegas-area workers laid off by the company. “I was supposed to work that evening,” said Patzer, 47, about...
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Downtown Las Vegas ascends
Artist Cliff Garten looks at his sculpture, “Harmonic Ascension,” on Wednesday at Las Vegas Civic Center. “I wanted something that was dynamic and celebratory,” he said. The public was invited to a lighting and dedication Thursday night.
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Lotto Store, last resorts in Primm to close July 4
Primm will soon become even quieter, with several resorts and businesses preparing to shut down permanently on July 4. A representative for The Primadonna Company confirmed Wednesday that the following properties will permanently close, marking the...
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$1B for upgrades
A top Senate Republican has proposed spending as much as $1 billion for U.S. Secret Service security adjustments and upgrades, including for President Donald Trump’s planned White House ballroom. The funding would come in legislation authored by...
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Spirit lays off 999 in LV
Spirit Airlines will lay off 999 Las Vegas-area workers as part of its Saturday shutdown, according to an official notice filed with state and local officials. Florida-based Spirit abruptly stopped operations just after midnight Saturday, abandoning...
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Water body controls hit church turf
FOR some 40 years, churchgoers at Our Lady of Victory Catholic Church have enjoyed a grassy oasis tucked off Windmill Lane in southeast Las Vegas. The towering trees and green grass keep them cool in blazing summers. The longevity of those peaceful...
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Basic baseball loses appeal for playoffs
A last-ditch effort to get Basic’s baseball team into the Class 5A Southern Region playoffs failed as a judge ruled against a request for a temporary restraining order by an attorney representing the team’s parents and players Friday. District Judge...
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Sentencing ends fatal 2015 Strip crash case
Leila Valenzuela was 8 when her mother was killed in a 2015 crash on the Strip. “At that age, you don’t think that your parents are ever going to be gone,” she told a judge Thursday. “You always think that they’re going to be there.” More than 10...
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Taking heat for heat fears
Despite extreme heat claiming more lives in the Las Vegas Valley than any weather event, officials have fallen behind in helping the region adapt, attendees of the first Southern Nevada Heat Summit said Wednesday. They pointed to what they described...
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The royal treatment
WASHINGTON — King Charles III marked the 250th anniversary of American independence from Britain with gratitude that the two countries united to build “one of the most consequential alliances in human history” while urging “that we ignore the clarion...
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Actor gets 37 years to life
Siera Begaye told a judge on Monday that Nathan Chasing Horse robbed her of her innocence. “Instead of being allowed to grow into my own person, he tried to shape me into something for his own desire and control,” she said in a packed Las Vegas...
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Hoover Dam: Trouble ahead
Federal water managers are putting the nation’s largest dam in a precarious position as they try to balance out the Colorado River system in a year of record low snowpack. Toward the bottom of the Bureau of Reclamation’s marquee announcement last week...
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Raiders’ QB of the future is present
Las Vegas Raiders general manager John Spytek insists the evaluation period that led to the selection of quarterback Fernando Mendoza with the top pick in the NFL draft was a thorough one that wasn’t finalized until fairly late in the process. Coach...
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The future begins
There were no curveballs nor surprises once the Las Vegas Raiders were officially put on the clock to start the NFL draft Thursday night in Pittsburgh. General manager John Spytek decided to play it straight as the worst-kept secret in sports over the...
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Quite the site
Construction on the Athletics’ $2 billion Las Vegas ballpark has hit multiple milestones of late, with more to come over the next few months. With heavy work on the project beginning last June, the ballpark is starting to show its shape, with just...
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Students enjoy fruits of labor
With pruning shears in her hand, fifth grader Chanel Ray snipped stems of fresh dill from a garden bed at Priest Elementary School last week, passing handfuls of the herb to classmate Nikolas Philbert. Dill is just one of many crops that students at...
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State grass ban suit lives
The Nevada Supreme Court has denied the Southern Nevada Water Authority’s attempt to derail a lawsuit challenging the agency’s enforcement of a ban on using Colorado River water to irrigate “nonfunctional” grass. Justices Kristina Pickering, Ron...
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Heat death leaves deep scar
Agroup of five wide-eyed, young hikers with one small water bottle between them walked past Tina-marie Cox on April 13 , embarking on the more than 2.5-mile journey to hot springs nestled along the Colorado River. In their path were two old,...
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Feds step in on river crisis
On the heels of a snow season that alarmed water managers across the Colorado River Basin, the Bureau of Reclamation is taking action to keep levels stable in Lake Powell. In an announcement Friday, the agency tasked with managing dams and water in...
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‘It’s great to be back’
President Donald Trump touted his signature tax cuts at a Las Vegas roundtable discussion Thursday, declaring that the U.S. economy was “booming.” The president was flanked by local workers who thanked him after he highlighted provisions in the “One...
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Supermax for super ‘one of one’
Four-time WNBA MVP A’ja Wilson has agreed to a supermax contract to return to the Las Vegas Aces, the team announced Wednesday. After leading the Aces to their third championship in four years with a historic 2025 campaign, Wilson became an...
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Plea: ‘Save the Amargosa River’
The mighty-but-littleknown Amargosa River gained dubious national recognition this week. Without intervention preventing mining and solar farm development, the river that makes life possible in one of America’s harshest deserts is in grave danger, the...
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Trump’s statements on pope criticized
The Catholic Archdiocese of Las Vegas chastised President Donald Trump’s Sunday remarks about Pope Leo XIV, whom he called weak on crime and foreign policy and suggested he wouldn’t be the pontiff if the president hadn’t been elected. “Pope Leo is...
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So skilled it’s scary
As a rule, first-year sports programs are not expected to be competitive. It can take time to build an administration, coaching staff and team capable of competing with the best. Nevada State University’s fledgling flag football team threw that rule...
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Trump presses Iran again
President Donald Trump ramped up pressure on Iran as Vice President JD Vance traveled to Pakistan for talks to end the war, with Israeli airstrikes in Lebanon and the Strait of Hormuz’s effective closure looming over diplomatic efforts. Trump posted...
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The setting Earth
Earth sets over the moon’s curved limb in this photo captured by the Artemis II crew during their journey around the far side of the moon. The dark portion of Earth is experiencing nighttime. On Earth’s day side, swirling clouds are visible over the...
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Artemis slips behind moon
With the moon now filling their windows, the Artemis II astronauts sailed into their lunar flyby Monday, taking in magnificent views of the far side never before witnessed while setting a new distance record for humanity. The six-hour flyby was the...
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10 YEARS OF T-MOBILE
IT’S been 10 years since the T-mobile Arena officially opened its doors and helped to usher in an era of major professional sports and top-tier entertainment in Las Vegas.
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Shoot for the moon
NASA’S Artemis II moon rocket lifts off from the Kennedy Space Center’s Launch Pad 39B on Wednesday in Cape Canaveral, Fla. The lunar mission has a diverse four-astronaut crew that includes a woman, a person of color and a non-u.s. citizen.
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Trump commands allies: ‘Go get your own oil!’
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump lashed out Tuesday at allies who have been unwilling to do more to support the U.S. war effort against Iran, telling them to “go get your own oil” and saying it was not America’s job to secure the Strait of...
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Returning to Vegas
PHOENIX — The Super Bowl’s return to Las Vegas is set, and expectations are already high. NFL owners approved Las Vegas on Monday as the host city for Super Bowl 63 in 2029 at Allegiant Stadium in a unanimous vote at the Arizona Biltmore hotel. Las...
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Knights cut Cassidy loose
In what might go down as the most shocking decision in franchise history, the Vegas Golden Knights fired coach Bruce Cassidy on Sunday with eight games remaining in the regular season. The Knights named longtime bench boss John Tortorella as the...
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Woods arrested after crash
JUPITER ISLAND, Fla. — Tiger Woods was arrested Friday on suspicion of driving under the influence after his Land Rover traveling at “high speed” on a residential road clipped a truck and rolled onto its side. Martin County Sheriff John Budensiek...
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Trump order will pay TSA
President Donald Trump said Thursday he would sign an order instructing the Homeland Security secretary to immediately pay Transportation Security Administration agents as Congress struggled to reach a deal to end a budget impasse that has jammed...
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Jury: Meta, Youtube hook kids
LOS ANGELES — Meta and Youtube must pay millions in damages to a 20-year-old woman after a jury decided the social media giant and video streamer designed their platforms to hook young users without concern for their well being. The California jury’s...
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U.S. offers ceasefire plan to Iranians via Pakistan
The Trump administration has offered a 15-point ceasefire plan to Iran, according to a person briefed on the contours of the proposal, even as the U.S. military is preparing to call up at least 1,000 more troops to supplement some 50,000 troops already...
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ICE at some airports
Armed federal immigration officers in tactical gear moved through terminals at some of the busiest U.S. airports Monday, standing near security lines and checkpoints after President Donald Trump ordered their deployment during a partial government...
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ICE to aid TSA at airports
President Donald Trump’s decision to order federal immigration agents to U.S. airports to help with security during a budget impasse is drawing concerns that their presence may escalate tensions among air travelers frustrated over hourslong waits and...
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HEAT RECORD AGAIN
Las Vegas came close to making weather history Friday, the first day of spring. Harry Reid International Airport recorded 97 degrees at 3:52 p.m., the National Weather Service said, three degrees shy of the century mark. The valley’s earliest...
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State takes look at Chavez ties
In the years after labor leader Cesar Chavez joined a historic Las Vegas picket line shortly before he died, he became the namesake of an east valley park and a ceremonial road. Not only was he the subject of annual celebrations thrown in his honor,...
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Building to a crescendo
The Strip’s giant guitar is nearly fully strummed. With 36 of its planned 42 stories now poured, the Guitar Hotel Las Vegas is steadily nearing structural completion and making progress toward its scheduled late-2027 opening act. The guitar-shaped...
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No pardon for former lawyer
A former Las Vegas lawyer who killed his ex-wife decades ago and was sentenced to life without parole told the Nevada Board of Pardons on Tuesday that he was remorseful for what he previously insisted was a self-defense killing. The sister of the...
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Heat wave to hit valley early
It may be the waning days of winter, but Southern Nevadans will be thrown into what will feel like the throes of a blistering — and potentially deadly — summer this week. Las Vegas could have its first 100-degree day in the next few days — an...
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Life in the fast lane
Driver Denny Hamlin, center left, lifts the trophy Sunday after winning the Pennzoil 400 at Las Vegas Motor Speedway. It was Hamlin’s second NASCAR Cup Series victory in Las Vegas in roughly five months and the 61st of his career.
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2.5K Marines sent to Mideast
The American military has ordered 2,500 Marines and an amphibious assault ship to the Middle East, a U.S. official said Friday, in a major addition of forces in the region after nearly two weeks of war with Iran. Hours later, President Donald Trump...
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Man shot dead after ramming synagogue
WEST BLOOMFIELD, Mich. — The armed man who rammed his vehicle into one of the nation’s largest Reform synagogues has been identified as a 41-year-old naturalized citizen born in Lebanon, according to federal officials. Ayman Mohamad Ghazali was...
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Nations release oil reserves
A group representing many of the world’s wealthiest countries agreed Wednesday to release the largest volume of emergency oil reserves in its history, in a bid to counter the effects of the Iran war on energy markets and the halt of cargo shipping...
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Man who served time in 1990 killing dies in crash
Carlos Gurri, who claimed he was wrongfully imprisoned for decades in connection with the murder of an FBI agent, died Saturday evening in a head-on collision just south of Pahrump. The crash happened when Gurri, 62, tried passing a vehicle while...
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Trump thinks end of war ‘very soon’
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said Monday he plans to waive oil-related sanctions, have the U.S. Navy escort tankers through the Strait of Hormuz and predicted the war with Iran would resolve “very soon.” The president said he did not believe...
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Arts District tenants in limbo
Priced out of Boulder City by skyrocketing rent, Susan Reams found a lifeline in the Las Vegas Arts District. Since last summer, she’s paid $950 a month for a fully furnished apartment — and camaraderie. Not only did the discounted rent cover...
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Crosby goes from Raider to Raven
It actually happened. After weeks of speculation and conjecture about his future with the team met non-denials and half-commitments, Maxx Crosby’s time with the Las Vegas Raiders is over. The Raiders have agreed to trade the star defensive end to the...
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Hotel-casino exits in the dark
Las Vegas bid farewell to the Eastside Cannery, in yet another explosive goodbye. The hotel-casino on Boulder Highway in the eastern Las Vegas Valley had been closed since the onset of the pandemic, and demolition crews imploded its 16-story hotel...
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Man accused of stealing bird at Flamingo resort
A Canadian man faces animal cruelty charges after police accused him of illegally entering the flamingo habitat at the iconic Flamingo resort on the Strip early Tuesday morning, taking a bird back to his room and torturing it. Mitchell Fairbarn, 33,...
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U.S. embassies targeted
TEHRAN, Iran — Iran targeted U.S. embassies and disrupted energy supplies and travel Tuesday as Israel said it launched airstrikes against Iranian missile launchers and a nuclear research site. An attack from two drones on the U.S. Embassy in Riyadh...
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