Las Vegas Review-Journal
Substation crash linked to terrorism
One person is dead after what Clark County Sheriff Kevin Mcmahill on Friday called a terrorism-related breach of a power substation near Boulder City. Authorities said Boulder City police received a report at about 10 a.m. Thursday that a car had...
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Trump warns Iran on deal
Iran held annual military drills with Russia on Thursday as a second American aircraft carrier drew closer to the Middle East, with both the United States and Iran signaling they are prepared for war if talks on Tehran’s nuclear program fizzle...
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Women get prison in 2023 crash
World War II veteran Herbert Muskin was 101 but still drove, played blackjack almost every day and took care of his wife. Then, in March 2023, a robbery suspect being pursued by police crashed into the car he was driving. Muskin was at a red light...
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Voice for equality, activist dies at 84
The Rev. Jesse Jackson was a familiar face in Las Vegas
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‘BOB GAVE EVERYTHING TO HIS CHARACTERS’
ROBERT Duvall, the Oscar-winning actor of matchless versatility and dedication whose classic roles included the intrepid consigliere of the first two “Godfather” movies and the over-the-hill country music singer in “Tender Mercies,” has died at age...
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New league serves notice: ‘Everyone should enjoy’
When Poi Kulzer’s father died three years ago, she turned to tennis to recenter her mind and process her grief. The concentration needed to sprint across asphalt and lob fuzzy neon balls over a net gave Kulzer, a transgender woman from Las Vegas, a...
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Olympic-level tumble
Ilia Malinin’s dream of gold in the men’s free skate ended with a pair of falls and no medal
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Knights make their mark
Canada’s Mark Stone, left, of the Vegas Golden Knights, scores Thursday in the second period of Canada’s 5-0 preliminaryround victory over Czechia at the Winter Olympics in Milan, Italy. Canada’s Mitch Marner, in the other white jersey, is a Knights...
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A’s ballpark levels up
Work is continuing rapidly on the Athletics’ $2 billion Las Vegas ballpark, with two of four main levels of the stadium now stretching around the project’s 9-acre footprint. The deck of the ballpark’s lower concourse has been poured from the foul pole...
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Person detained in Guthrie investigation
A person was detained for questioning Tuesday in the kidnapping of Nancy Guthrie, hours after the FBI released surveillance videos of a masked person wearing a handgun holster outside Guthrie’s front door the night she vanished from her Arizona...
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False breast exams ‘horrifying’
Breast cancer survivor Salli Schwartz received a “horrifying” letter more than a week ago. It said her mammograms from the past three years were not valid. Schwartz, 74, had received three mammograms at Summerlin Hospital Medical Center and most...
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‘Pretty big beating’
Sportsbooks went from sweating out a potential massive payout if no touchdown was scored in Super Bowl 60 to sweating out whether Sunday’s game would go over the total. But the betting public that was all over the Seattle Seahawks barely broke a sweat...
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Suspect in bio lab case released
A federal judge ordered the release Friday of a man arrested in connection with what authorities say was an illegal biological laboratory in the east Las Vegas Valley. Ori Solomon, 55, has been charged federally with a count of being a prohibited...
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Metro: Officers tried to save boy
Las Vegas police defended their decision to fire on a man holding his 3-year-old son hostage early Tuesday morning, saying the man had previously threatened to kill the boy and himself and was pointing a gun at the child. Two officers opened fire at...
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Mother of slain child disputes police account
Raneka Pate said she watched from inside a police cruiser as her 3-year-old son’s life ended amid a storm of bullets fired by officers at his father, who was holding the boy. Police said the suspect, later identified as Quinton Baker, held the child...
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Running for a water cause
Ultrarunner Mina Guli, Thirst Foundation nonprofit CEO, stands atop the Hoover Dam after a news conference Tuesday about her plans to run the 1,800-mile span of the Colorado River to raise drought awareness.
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One man arrested in bio lab investigation
Law enforcement leaders said Monday they arrested one man in connection with an alleged illegal biological laboratory in the east Las Vegas Valley. Clark County Sheriff Kevin Mcmahill said authorities arrested Ori Solomon, 55, on a felony charge of...
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Call for ouster renewed
Former associates at a troubled Las Vegas nonprofit hope to oust the current leadership and give back a measure of control to the Lutheran community that founded it. Lutheran Social Services of Nevada has been “de-lutheranized,” said the Rev. Marta...
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Faces of the unidentified
During the fall of 2023, Shelby Mower’s family members became concerned when the 25-year-old Las Vegas resident hadn’t returned calls or text messages. On Nov. 17, 2023, Mower’s mother reported her missing to the Metropolitan Police Department, though...
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Wildflower forecast holds promise
SHOSHONE, Calif. — Death Valley National Park’s resident naturalist couple are hoping for a sprawling “superbloom” as much as anyone. But while all blooms are “super” to trained botanist Naomi Fraga, she’s not so sure this year will meet tall...
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Trump: ‘De-escalate a little bit’
President Donald Trump’s newly appointed head of the ICE crackdown in Minnesota met with Democratic Gov. Tim Walz on Tuesday as the White House sought to lower the political temperature following the killing of ICU nurse Alex Pretti by immigration...
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Nevada wins when gold price soars
Gold briefly topped $5,100 per ounce for the first time Monday, and as the fifth-highest gold producer in the world, this is good news for Nevada. With gold hitting a record on the global market, for Nevada, this means more jobs, more tax revenue and...
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Conflicting messages in Minn.
MINNEAPOLIS — In dueling news conferences, federal and state officials offered starkly different messages Sunday about the immigration operation that has swept across Minneapolis and surrounding cities, with both claiming the moral high ground after...
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Massive winter storm underway
DALLAS — Freezing rain fell in parts of Texas on Friday as a huge, dayslong winter storm began a trek that threatened to bring snow, sleet, ice, bone-chilling temperatures and extensive power outages to about half the U.S. population. Forecasters...
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Ukraine’s Zelenskyy scolds European allies
DAVOS, Switzerland — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy blasted his European allies Thursday for what he portrayed as the continent’s slow, fragmented and inadequate response to Russia’s invasion nearly four years ago and its continued...
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Judge removes RJ staff
A judge removed Las Vegas Review-journal staff from her courtroom Wednesday because they refused to promise not to name an alleged victim testifying in the Nathan Chasing Horse sexual assault trial. An attorney for the Review-journal plans to...
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LV takes handoff, runs with it
MIAMI — The day after a thrilling College Football Playoff national championship Monday night in Miami, officials shifted their focus to Las Vegas for the 2027 edition of the mega event. At a handoff ceremony at the JW Marriott Marquis in downtown...
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Hit parade
Kids on Judge Mari Parladé’s election truck gesture toward the crowd Monday during the Martin Luther King Jr. Day parade downtown. More than 200 groups participated.
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Carefree, wild and multiplying
INSIDE a long-abandoned 1964 Chevy II Gasser in an industrial lot just north of the Strip, a grey tabby cat named Spice sat in the back seat, looking content on a cold January afternoon. Spice, who received her name because she has a tendency to get...
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Trump floats tariff threat
President Donald Trump threatened fresh tariffs on goods from nations that oppose his push to take control of Greenland, stepping up his rhetoric while Denmark hosted U.S. lawmakers on its home turf following meetings in Washington this week. “I may...
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Grass law draws lawsuit
A well-intended state law mandating the removal of Southern Nevada’s “useless grass” to conserve water has massively backfired, according to a new lawsuit. Filed Monday in District Court, the complaint alleges that an estimated 100,000 mature trees...
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Trial judge issues press limits
The judge overseeing the sexual assault trial of an alleged cult leader issued prohibitions on media coverage on Tuesday that legal experts said amounted to an unconstitutional gag order and that the Las Vegas Review-journal challenged in a letter to...
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‘Paradigm shift in police work’
AT the Metropolitan Police Department’s Fusion Watch and Drone Operations Center Wednesday afternoon, an alarm went off as rows of workers looked at a sea of screens that showed real-time feeds from cameras around Las Vegas. The alert — similar to...
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Colorado River paths unveiled
Offering a window into the five paths it will consider for the Colorado River, the Bureau of Reclamation released a road map to a seven-state deal. The agency released five alternatives to consider for managing the river on its website Friday. A...
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CES can be fun and games
People play classic arcade games on machines by My Arcade during the first day of CES 2026 on Tuesday at the Las Vegas Convention Center. The four-day event spotlighting the latest in consumer electronics runs through Friday.
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Carroll out, rebuild in
WITHIN the walls of the Raiders’ Henderson headquarters Monday, the firing of coach Pete Carroll felt less like a coaching change and more like a seminal moment. For the first time in what seems like forever, the Raiders have something significant to...
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‘It’s where innovation occurs’
HUNDREDS of the roughly 4,000 media members attending CES 2026 got an early look Sunday at some of the thousands of consumer electronics gadgets that will dominate multiple trade show floors across the city this week. The annual Consumer Electronics...
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Bird count makes for rare sights in Nevada
Eight pairs of eyes scanned the desert brush through binoculars for signs of life. Without notice, a flash of bright yellow quickly materialized, seizing attention — and raising eyebrows. This mixed-age group of voracious birders had stumbled upon...
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Vegas reputation lures revelers
Crowds gathered in Las Vegas on New Year’s Eve for a blowout bash that would be topped off, for the first time, by a drone light show along with the fireworks that traditionally are launched from hotel rooftops. Local officials projected more than...
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America’s Party of 10
The best place to watch Thursday morning’s eight-minute, $1 million “America’s Party” fireworks display and drone light show will be on the Strip between Resorts World Las Vegas and the Fashion Show mall, a representative of Fireworks by Grucci said...
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Central Kitchen is cooking
IN a city known for endless buffets and high-end dining, one of Las Vegas’ largest kitchens is rarely open to guests and only caters to kids. It’s in the far northeast valley, where workers at the Clark County School District’s Central Kitchen prepare,...
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Hitting slopes just got easier
RECENT facility improvements and a renewed emphasis on affordability at Lee Canyon’s ski resort are driving an increase in visitation to Southern Nevada’s largest destination for outdoor winter activities, operators said. Located about 53 miles...
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Vegas water ‘adaptation’
IT’S a no-brainer for many: As the outer boundaries of the Las Vegas Valley blur and thousands of homes pop up where only desert used to be, the bathtub ring around Lake Mead seems to only deepen. An ever-growing desert metropolis and worsening...
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Consulting tribes
BUILDING the nation’s largest lithium mine on public land means a federal agency must, by law, consult with the original, Indigenous stewards of the land. But what that looks like in practice varies widely in both legal interpretations and how tribal...
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Legal twists, turns
RENO — Inside Dean Barlese’s home on the Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe reservation is a whiteboard with the numbers of tribal members who would drop everything to come to the beloved elder’s aid if needed. So are the crinkled lawsuit papers the...
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‘Landscape sacred’
Learning the protocol for “unanticipated discoveries” is a mandatory part of visitor training for the site where Lithium Americas, a mining company originally from Canada, plans to tear up the desert floor in search of lithium. Those skeletons on the...
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Taking on Goliath
OROVADA — The road to Thacker Pass goes through the ranching community of Orovada — literally. The unincorporated town, ripe with sprawling green fields not usually characteristic of the Nevada high desert, is a stopover as travelers head north on...
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County rental rules blocked
A U.S. District Court judge has granted a preliminary injunction that prevents Clark County from enforcing some of its short-term rental ordinances following a court hearing this month. Judge Miranda Du on Wednesday issued a 14-page order after the...
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Colo. River talks ‘going nowhere’
Seven Colorado River states appear to have made little progress on a deal that will have wide-reaching implications for the limited water supply that fuels the arid American West. Added at the end of the agenda of this week’s three-day Colorado River...
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Colo. River water deal timeline set
Federal officials gave the clearest timeline yet for when a breakthrough could come in closed-door negotiations over the water supply of 40 million Americans. On Wednesday, Assistant Secretary of Water and Science Andrea Travnicek said the public will...
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Life sentences given for striking cyclist
When Andreas Probst’s wife and children talk about him, they speak of absences. The weddings he will never attend, the grandchildren he will never hold, the calming figure who can no longer make them feel safe. “My husband deserved to live,” his...
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Rabbi: ‘Bring more light’
As the most visible Jewish holiday, Hanukkah is traditionally observed publicly with ceremonies such as the eight-day lighting of the menorah, Rabbi Shea Harlig of Chabad of Southern Nevada noted Monday. In the aftermath of an antisemitic terror...
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‘An act of pure evil’
Two gunmen opened fire during a Hanukkah celebration on Sydney’s Bondi beach, killing 15 people, including a child, officials said Monday, in what Prime Minister Anthony Albanese called an act of antisemitic terrorism that struck at the heart of the...
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Trump sued over White House reno
President Donald Trump was sued on Friday by preservationists asking a federal court to halt his White House ballroom project until it goes through multiple independent reviews and wins approval from Congress. The National Trust for Historic...
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ACA subsidies set to die
WASHINGTON — The Senate on Thursday rejected legislation to extend Affordable Care Act tax credits, essentially guaranteeing that millions of Americans will see a steep rise in costs at the beginning of the year. As Republicans and Democrats have...
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Police aid shopping fun
Santa traded his sleigh for a North Las Vegas police SWAT truck on Wednesday morning, joining a motorcade to kick off the department’s annual Shop with a Cop event. Brothers Logan and Elias Southern, 5 and 2, jumped and waved excitedly as Santa passed...
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A’s Badain: ‘See all of the progress’
Athletics’ president Marc Badain led the first media tour of the team’s under-construction $2 billion Las Vegas ballpark on Tuesday, giving a firsthand look at the progress being made on the project. After six months of heavy construction on the site...
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299 valley crash victims in 2025
Law enforcement agencies across the valley are joining forces, forming a traffic task force to decrease road fatalities. Metropolitan Police Department Deputy Chief Jose Hernandez said during a news conference at the “Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas”...
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Forever a Vegas showman
JERRY Lewis often referred to Sammy Davis Jr. as the greatest entertainer he’d ever seen. Lewis co-headlined Davis’ final shows on the Strip at Bally’s in 1988. • Lewis invoked Davis in Lewis’ own live-performance finale, at South Point Showroom in...
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Solar plant to remain open
The Ivanpah solar plant, off the Interstate 15, just across the state line from Primm, will continue to operate after the California Public Utilities Commission denied Pacific Gas & Electric Company’s contract termination agreement with the plant’s...
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Stepfather of boy, 11, testifies in road rage
The stepfather of an 11-year-old boy who was killed in a road rage shooting on the 215 Beltway last month testified Thursday that he was scared when the suspect first swerved at him and later drew a gun. Valente Ayala said through an interpreter in...
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Rodeo’s economics bullish
No one would have expected back in 1985 that the National Finals Rodeo would be the massive success that it has become. But now, 40 years later, it’s one of the toughest tickets to get, and what is considered the Super Bowl of rodeos is primed to...
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Nevada 4th grader lights Capitol tree
WASHINGTON — After a gray, rainy day at the U.S. Capitol, the clouds parted, revealing a sunset that one could call borrowed from the desert skies of Nevada. A bald eagle circled overhead, squirrels foraged under a manicured land
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Calif. official: ‘We cannot normalize this tragedy’
Family members were getting ready to cut the cake at a toddler’s birthday party when the gunfire started inside a banquet hall packed with relatives and friends over the weekend in California. “I actually thought it was my balloons popping. It was...
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Raiders lose 10th straight AFC West game, dating to ’23
INGLEWOOD, Calif. — The Raiders aren’t going anywhere until they can figure out how to win games in their division. That was far from the case Sunday when the Chargers easily handled them 31-14 at Sofi Stadium. Not only was it the Raiders’ sixth...
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Big crowds hit valley stores
Are doorbuster sales back? It depends on where you go and whom you ask. This Black Friday, Nevada shoppers flocked to their favorite malls and big-box stores to get a deal on their most-soughtafter holiday items. Some say the doorbuster is back, while...
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Quite thankful, indeed
The day before Thanksgiving, Cielo Steward said that she was grateful for sobriety. Steward, 39, waited in line Wednesday morning for a potluck meal at the Vegas Stronger headquarters. The nonprofit, located at 916 North Main St., helps people get off...
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Teen driver denied bail
A judge ordered a no-bail hold Tuesday for a driver who faces murder charges in connection with a fatal crash. Jose Gutierrez, 19, was arrested last week following the 12-vehicle crash on West Cheyenne Avenue near North Jones Boulevard. His pregnant...
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One race over, another just getting underway on Strip
A dayslong clearing of track barriers from the Formula One Las Vegas Grand Prix will bring Las Vegas Boulevard back to 95 percent capacity by Thanksgiving, according to race planners. Barrier removal began hours after the race ended Saturday night,...
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F1 feted as fuel for economy
THE Formula One Las Vegas Grand Prix is just what the city needed amid a mild tourism dip, the top executive at MGM Resorts said following the third straight sellout event for open-wheel auto racing fans. Bill Hornbuckle said having a major event like...
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Water deal deadline passes
INFORMATION, like water, is in short supply in the Colorado River Basin as seven states blew past the Trump administration’s deadline for an agreement. Tuesday was Interior Secretary Doug Burgum’s major deadline for the states to submit a framework...
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Persistence, forged by fire
Jan Millholland thought she knew almost everything about her late husband, but is still learning a lot about his military service. At 91, Paul Millholland died April 16 at the Henderson Hospital from respiratory failure, pneumonia and other...
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Expert: ‘Chill’ on flight fright
AN aviation analyst says the Federal Aviation Administration-ordered cuts in flights won’t be as bad as it sounds. Mike Boyd of Evergreen, Colorado-based Boyd Group International, said airlines are carefully choosing which flights to cut to...
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