Las Vegas Review-Journal
Bush relives tragedy
DALLAS — George W. Bush was spirited away from a classroom in Florida to a secure location in the Midwest just minutes after learning of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on American soil. The president was frustrated about not being at the White...
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Never forgotten
The sun will rise Friday, and Junior ROTC cadets at Palo Verde High School will continue a decades-long tradition. Hundreds of students and dozens of first responders will gather at a memorial near the school’s soccer field. JROTC cadets will raise,...
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President: ‘Never forget’
WASHINGTON — Nearly a quarter century after a day “etched forever into the memories of Americans,” President Donald Trump honored the victims of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on Tuesday by vowing to “never forget.” The event at the Ellipse was...
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Born out of need, built out of deeds
TOUTED as a civil engineering marvel before construction even began, the immense Mike O’callaghan-pat Tillman Memorial Bridge hangs about 90 stories above the Colorado River, overlooking the storied Hoover Dam. There was a time when the most viable...
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‘Super’ El Niño looms
ABNORMALLY hot temperatures in the Pacific Ocean have sparked questions about whether a “Super” El Niño cycle could bring extreme or erratic weather this year. But El Niño does not guarantee any specific weather despite the hype, according to Dan...
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Henderson will fete its U.S. titlists
Members of the Paseo Verde Little League team will be the guests of honor later this month as the city of Henderson celebrates its U.S. champions. The city announced Friday that plans are in the works for a free Sept. 19 event at the Lee’s Family...
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Labor Day weekend gas record to fall this week
Drivers should expect to pay record-high Labor Day weekend gas prices in the Las Vegas Valley, besting the previous high set in 2022, as prices continue to increase nationwide. The average price of regular unleaded gasoline in the valley was $4.90 a...
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U Remind Me of someone
AS Usher for Real checked out Usher in Wax, the celebrated entertainer’s wife looked on with an approving smile. “They got it right,” Jennifer Goicoechea said Wednesday at Madame Tussauds wax museum at The Venetian’s Grand Canal Shoppes. Usher’s...
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Judge ‘loved helping people’
Former Clark County District Judge Jackie Glass’ family decided to hold a private funeral after her death Friday. But based on word of mouth, 250 people learned the details anyway and showed up for the Monday service, her husband, Clark County...
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Two dead, many missing in flood
Buildings are seen in flood-damaged Bright Angel Canyon on Monday in Grand Canyon National Park in Arizona. The area was hit with flash flooding Saturday, and at least 12 people remain missing, including two men on a dream trip.
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Cruel world sometimes
A Paseo Verde player walks off Sunday as Curaçao celebrates its 11-2 win in the Little League World Series title game in South Williamsport, Pa. The Henderson team’s loss marked the second straight year a Nevada team finished runner-up.
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Judge denies eligibility plea
A federal judge on Friday denied a request from a UNLV football player for a temporary restraining order preventing the NCAA from declaring him ineligible. While Chief U.S. District Judge Andrew Gordon said it would be up to UNLV to decide whether to...
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Defense rests in Tupac trial
The defense rested Thursday in the trial over the slaying of rapper Tupac Shakur after a detective previously assigned to the case said he would have arrested the defendant in 2009. A defense attorney for Duane Davis, 63, and prosecutors will make...
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Paseo Verde gets through
Paseo Verde routed Davenport, Iowa, 14-6 to reach the U.S. championship.
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Beloved music and film icon
DOLLY PARTON, the country music icon whose soaring vibrato vocals, poignant songwriting and sparkling costumes defined her rise from a log cabin in the Tennessee mountains to the height of stardom and acclaim, has died in Nashville. She was 80. “After...
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State sues over cuts
Nevada officials filed a federal lawsuit challenging the Trump administration’s order for cuts in water use Monday, marking a major escalation of tensions between the seven states that share the Colorado River. The complaint, filed in the U.S....
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Strip sight soars
Construction continues at Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Las Vegas, the Strip’s largest and most-visible resort project. The 42-story Guitar Hotel, which topped out this spring, is now largely enclosed in blue-tinted glass, while exterior sheathing covers...
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Warning in 2020: Ponder ‘lost way’
A Las Vegas attorney warned the nonprofit Hope for Prisoners that the organization’s founder, Jon Ponder, had “lost his way” nearly six years before Ponder’s arrest Tuesday on suspicion of sex assault and other charges, the Las Vegas Review-journal has...
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A’s roof structure progressing
The roof of the Athletics’ Las Vegas ballpark is steadily coming together as crews on Tuesday morning completed the installation of the stadium’s second steel truss arch. The truss, made up of five steel pieces arching over the stadium and attached to...
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Tupac tight-lipped
The first witness Monday at the trial of the man accused of orchestrating the killing of rapper Tupac Shakur was a former Metropolitan Police Department officer who spoke with Shakur after the shooting that would ultimately claim his life. Garry Dale...
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Nevada faces steep cuts
NEVADA is likely to give up a sixth of its Colorado River allocation next year as the federal government prepares to impose its strictest limits ever on the state’s water use, according to a document released Friday. That could be followed by even...
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Airlines coping with heat
With temperatures expected to soar to around 115 degrees over the weekend, air travelers leaving Las Vegas should prepare for possible cancellations and delays — or in even rarer occasions to be bumped by their airline. Flights were delayed last...
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Hoover Dam off limits
Hoover Dam remained closed to visitors Wednesday after federal officials first confirmed the closure Monday evening. Federal officials have not announced a reopening date for the popular tourist site, and a spokesperson for the U.S. Bureau of...
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Graham recalled as Senate ‘giant’
WASHINGTON — Sen. Lindsey Graham, the son of pool hall owners who rose to become one of his generation’s more influential U.S. politicians at home and abroad, was eulogized Tuesday as “a true American original” during memorial services in...
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President asks court to approve voting list
WASHINGTON — The Trump administration asked the Supreme Court on Monday to clear the way for an executive order from President Donald Trump that could dramatically change mail-in voting ahead of November’s midterm elections. The Justice Department...
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A PLACE TO CHILL
Cooling stations dot nearly every neighborhood in Clark County, but many of those inside trying to avoid the deadly heat don’t even know they’re using one. It’s more than just a branding problem, one researcher has found. That’s according to the...
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Gas prices on the march again
The Las Vegas Valley has seen gasoline prices jump 14 cents per gallon in the past week as multiple overseas conflicts rage on, creating the potential for $5-per-gallon gas. The average price for a gallon of regular unleaded gas in Southern Nevada was...
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Athletics head for home in funding
Billionaire Mark Cuban’s Harbinger Sports Partners has invested in the Athletics as the team prepares to move to Las Vegas in 2028. The minority owner of the NBA’S Dallas Mavericks and his Atlanta-based private equity firm purchased an undisclosed...
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Saluting the fallen
President Donald Trump on Wednesday honored the lives of four U.S. service members who were killed in the Middle East and returned to their families at an air force base in Delaware. The president saluted as four transfer cases carrying the service...
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Police kill suspect at Walmart
One person was shot during a fight inside a Walmart early Tuesday, authorities said, leading to a fatal police shooting in the parking lot of the business in the eastern Las Vegas Valley. Metropolitan Police Department Capt. Brandon Oris said that at...
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NLV company’s new title: BXBL
Boxabl, the North Las Vegas firm that makes tiny homes in a factory, is now a publicly traded company. Shares of Boxabl started trading Monday on the Nasdaq under the ticker symbol BXBL and closed the session at $9.82. Stock trackers showed mixed...
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Something to scream about
Spanish players cheer alongside President Donald Trump and FIFA President Gianni Infantino on Sunday at the conclusion of the World Cup championship soccer match won by Spain 1-0 over Argentina on Sunday.
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Fertitta not welcomed in posh Venice arrival
VENICE, Italy — Several hundred protesters marched Friday against the arrival in Venice of the billionaire American ambassador’s luxury yacht, briefly clashing with riot police as they neared the vessel. Activists described hospitality mogul Tilman...
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Olympic athletes bring the noise to the Strip Flavor Flav behind event that’s ‘all for the women’
A portion of Las Vegas Boulevard was shut down Thursday night to celebrate over 100 Winter Olympians and Paralympians, as set up by rapper Flavor Flav and his SHE Weekend event. What started out as a social media post in response to President Donald...
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Data center siting stirs ire
A small rally in Southern Nevada’s quaintest city had a big message. Data centers are not welcome in the city that built Hoover Dam. But they may be coming anyway despite fierce resident protest — a fact that Boulder City restaurateur and longtime...
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President halts vehicle stops
BIDDEFORD, Maine — Trump administration officials told Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers to suspend most vehicle stops after two deadly shootings within a week, people familiar with the decision said Tuesday. The policy change came after an...
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U.S. to charge ships in strait
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — The U.S. strik. launched es on Iran early Tuesday morning, hours after President Donald Trump said Washington is “reinstating” a blockade on Iran in the Strait of Hormuz. Trump separately suggested the United States will...
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‘I’m glad that we have them’
Anthony Tyson spent years running a landscaping business in Connecticut before addiction upended his life. After entering drug rehabilitation in California, his health insurance expired. Without coverage or stable housing, Tyson became homeless and...
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Witnesses: Victim no threat
Three men inside a van who witnessed the fatal shooting of the driver by an immigration officer in Houston said the Mexican man was shot through a passenger window and that the officer was never threatened, a lawyer who has spoken with them said...
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2 days of U. S. strikes kill 14
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — As the United States launched new airstrikes against Iran on Thursday, sirens sounded at least three times in Bahrain, home to the U.S. Navy’s 5th Fleet headquarters, and Iranian missiles targeted Kuwait and Qatar. Sirens...
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Colangelo’s name emerges on LV list
FORMER Phoenix Suns and Arizona Diamondbacks owner Jerry Colangelo is in the mix to land a Las Vegas NBA expansion team. Colangelo, 86, leads a group called the Las Vegas Jacks that Wednesday announced an $8 billion plan to bring the NBA to Southern...
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Trump arrives at NATO talks
ANKARA, Turkey — President Donald Trump on Tuesday insisted that the United States should be in control of Greenland rather than NATO ally Denmark, renewing tensions in Europe even as the trans-atlantic military alliance was announcing billions in arms...
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Stars, stripes and sadness
Chris Haynes, left, and Marlene Recinos of Las Vegas raise their flags for the national anthem during a watch party at Stadium Swim at Circa for the United States-belgium World Cup round of 16 match on Monday. Belgium won 4-1 to eliminate the U.S.
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Documenting ‘Depletion’
THE trip was the ultimate test of their bromance, and they passed. But it had a deeper message. It has been months since Alex Harper, 37, and Austin Williams, 35, began a 112-mile journey from the Spring Mountains to Lake Mead that most rational people...
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READ THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE
WHEN IN THE COURSE OF HUMAN EVENTS, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and...
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Wagging tail his telltale tell
Ace Alley of Mount Charleston competes with his toy poodle Pancho Villa during Day 1 of the World Series of Poker Main Event at the Paris Ballroom inside the Paris on Thursday.
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Proud to be an American
Dave Csik reacts to game action Wednesday at Circa during a World Cup match between the United States and Bosnia-Herzegovina. The United States won 2-0 to advance to the round of 16.
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Possible attack thwarted
A heavily armed suspect who authorities said had planned a mass shooting was arrested in a Henderson casino parking garage over the weekend, police announced Tuesday. Allison Howlett was arrested Saturday on suspicion of making a threat related to an...
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Alleged gang members guilty
Las Vegas federal jurors returned guilty verdicts Monday against three men accused of being MS-13 gang officials and committing a series of murders. But the jury did not return a guilty verdict on each count or for every one of the 11 killings that...
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Off Strip, A’s ballpark rises
SLOAN — More than 1,000 custom-cast concrete risers for the Athletics’ Las Vegas ballpark are taking shape some 15 miles away from where the $2 billion stadium is being built on the Strip. Western Pacific Precast is crafting the risers — known in the...
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Searching for miracles
LA GUAIRA, Venezuela — Venezuelans took the search for missing loved ones into their own hands Friday in the aftermath of back-to-back earthquakes, citing the scarcity of government rescuers, as the human toll of the disaster climbed to at least 920...
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Friends held doubts for years
Four women who were friends with Bernadette Vander Meer said Thursday they were suspicious of her husband after she fell to her death during a hike with her spouse at Zion National Park in 2006. Three of the women, Kristina Riccio, Kari Krute and...
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Trump irate over Iran war vote
President Donald Trump berated Senate Republicans face to face Wednesday for allowing a vote to block his war in Iran. Invited by Florida Sen. Rick Scott to speak at a GOP luncheon in the Capitol, Trump had signaled ahead of time that he would use the...
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Arrest in 2006 death
A Las Vegas charter school counselor has been arrested on murder and insurance fraud charges in the death of his first wife, who tumbled off Angels Landing nearly 20 years ago during an anniversary trip to Zion National Park. David Vander Meer, a...
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Foley makes NBA bid
Vegas Golden Knights owner Bill Foley has officially launched a bid to bring an NBA expansion team to Las Vegas, he announced Monday. Foley has hired Morgan Stanley & Co. to be his exclusive financial adviser as he looks to build an ownership group...
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Dam opinions flow both ways
WHEN the Bureau of Reclamation announced it would cut releases into Lake Mead in an effort to prop up Lake Powell, the messaging was clear, and it acknowledged a problem some in the Western water world have raised for years. “If Glen Canyon Dam...
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United States beats Australia 2-0, clinches World Cup knockout round Trans athlete limits sought
Should he win re-election in November, Gov. Joe Lombardo would push for legislation to limit the participation of transgender athletes in state-funded sports, he said Friday. Lombardo’s announcement came a day after the Nevada Supreme Court — in a 6-0...
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‘His time is now’
Ryan Craig knows he’s taking a job with unique pressure. Yes, he’s familiar with most people in the Vegas Golden Knights locker room. He has worked with some of those players from the beginning. But now the former longtime assistant is walking into...
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Street takeover cars crushed by shredder
Street takeover participants: Beware the shredder. The shredder, in this case, is a massive auto shredding device at SA Recycling on North Nellis Boulevard. It can fragment vehicles in a matter of minutes, turning once-speeding cars into piles of...
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Tortorella not coming back
As quickly as it began, the John Tortorella era with the Vegas Golden Knights is over. Tortorella will not return as coach of the Knights next season after getting them two wins from a Stanley Cup championship, the team announced Tuesday. Tortorella,...
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Now we’re cooking with gas
At last! After 15 years, Vegas has a James Beard Award winner. Sarah Thompson, executive chef of Casa Playa at Wynn Las Vegas, won the Best Chef: Southwest category on Monday at the 2026 James Beard Foundation Restaurant and Chef Awards ceremony held...
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