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Mick Akers

Transportation reporter

Mick joined the Las Vegas Review-Journal as transportation reporter in November 2018. He previously worked at the Las Vegas Sun covering a variety of beats including transportation, business, gaming, and city and county government. Prior to that, he worked at the Pahrump Valley Times, where he was named the Nevada Press Association’s Outstanding Journalist in the intermediate category for his coverage of the Lamar Odom brothel overdose situation, rural healthcare and more. Mick was born in Texas but grew up in Las Vegas, attending UNLV’s Hank Greenspun School of Journalism and Media Studies where he was a member of the Kappa Tau Alpha National Journalism Society.  

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The 16th annual Roadmap of State Highway Safety Laws analyzed 2017 crash data and found the annual economic costs associated with crashes in Nevada is $1.98 billion.

SHOT Show 2019: 50th anniversary Apollo 11 knife in Las Vegas

To celebrate the golden anniversary of that monumental occasion, Case — the maker of the Astronaut Knife M-1 — debuted its commemorative model marking the event at SHOT Show 2019 in Las Vegas at the the Sands Expo and Convention Center.

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