Nevada brothel owner and state Assembly candidate Dennis Hof has died, according to the Nye County Sheriff’s Office. He was 72.
Briana Erickson
Reporter: Homeless and veterans issues
Email: berickson@reviewjournal.com
Phone: 702-387-5244
Briana Erickson covers homeless and veterans’ issues for the Review-Journal. A proud “Florida Woman” living in the desert, she centers her reporting around people living in the shadows.
Before joining the Review-Journal in 2017, the University of Florida graduate wrote for the North Central Florida NPR affiliate and the South Florida Sun Sentinel. She was named College Journalist of the Year by the Society of Professional Journalists.
A day after arriving in Las Vegas last month, Girlie Bloomquist and her family were waiting for a Section 8 housing voucher and initially went to the city of Las Vegas’ courtyard , at Foremaster Lane and Las Vegas Boulevard.
The remains of a dozen U.S. military veterans — and one spouse — were buried at the Southern Nevada Veterans Memorial Cemetery on Tuesday after sitting in funeral homes for years, unclaimed by any living relatives.
People who paid up to $129 apiece to launch an illuminated flying lantern on Saturday in Jean were informed of the cancellation shortly before launch time. The company behind the event offered 40 percent off on tickets for next year.
Thousands of lanterns were sent into the night sky Friday during the first day of the fifth annual RiSE festival, this year’s event at the dry lake bed in Jean, 30 miles south of Las Vegas.
As part of the Racing Pigeon Cross Country Relay, local racing pigeons deliver a message first carried by a famous Black Check cock carrier pigeon named Cher Ami, who single-wingedly saved a beleaguered American battalion.
“Vegas Strong Baby” Wyatt Matheson turns 1 on Wednesday. He was born two days after his parents and uncle survived the shooting at the Route 91 Harvest festival.
Nye County sheriff’s deputies order residents of longtime encampment for homeless to leave, but county and city have no place for them to go. Community members aim to fill the void and come up with some long-term solutions.
Oct. 1 shooting survivors Todd Wienke and his fiancee, Oshia Collins-Waters, chose to return to Las Vegas to marry on the anniversary of the tragedy.
Some survivors chose tattoos as a permanent mark of a moment that changed everything, using symbolism and their bodies as a way to process their experience and emotions.
Cosby accuser Lise-Lotte Lublin, a Las Vegas teacher, attended the comedian’s sentencing Tuesday in Philadelphia. “I can shake my hands, and say this is kind of the end, it’s done,” she said.
The nonprofit Guns To Hammers organization completed more than $20,000 worth of renovations on the home of veteran Ed Wiesing and his wife, Dana Wagner.
One by one, members of the Rancho High School color guard placed a red rose onto a white and blue wreath on Friday at Nellis Air Force Base — each representing a Nevadan listed as missing in action in U.S. military conflicts.
Adam Poppenhouse, a 33-year-old Las Vegas veteran who served in the Army after he graduated from high school in 2004, will be honored from noon to 9 p.m. Saturday at Henderson Events Plaza amphitheater at an event sponsored by the city of Henderson and One Hero At A Time, a local volunteer group.
Diana Brown Sanfilippo, 70, of Stateline at Lake Tahoe says she has new hope that she’ll one day be reunited with her father, Nevada Air National Guard 1st Lt. Frank Salazar, after witnessing the return of MIA remains from North Korea.
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