While reporting on the Metropolitan Police Department’s K-9 section, Review-Journal writer Rio Lacanlale agreed to let a 100-pound Dutch shepherd attack her. (Rio Lacanlale/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
Weslie Martin, the man who twice burglarized the entertainer Wayne Newton’s Las Vegas home, was sentenced to a minimum of 22 years to a maximum of 64 years in prison.
My guest this week is none other than Carrot Top, the city’s pre-eminent prop comic. We talk about his upbringing, meeting some of his comedy heroes such as Jay Leno and George Carlin, and how he keeps his show fresh. The interview took place in his dressing room at Atrium Showroom, which is strewn with such assorted props as a disco ball, a Miami Dolphins flag, two framed platinum Pantera albums and Carrot Top action figures.
The Review-Journal’s investigative reporter Arthur Kane talks about what he found in his 5 month investigation of the Nevada State Board of Dental Examiners.
Las Vegas police are investigating a fatal stabbing in the central valley Sunday evening. (James Schaeffer/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
Jose Conseco is officially the new owner of Showtime car wash. Staff and customers celebrated the occasion with games and photographs with the Major League Baseball outfielder. (James Schaeffer/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
Family and friends attended the funeral for 6-year-old Gavin Murray at Palm Mortuary Northwest. (James Schaeffer/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
Andrew Yang stopped by the RJ Studio to join Rory Appleton and Steve Sebelius on the RJ Politics podcast. This episode is set to air Friday November 1st, 2019.
In a new addition of the Vegas Nation Stadium Show Ed Graney and Rick Velotta discus the latest construction on the Raiders Allegiant Stadium with interviews from Don Webb.
The Las Vegas Dental Association has charged the Nevada Board of Dental Examiners is not treating all dentists fairly. The sister of the LVDA executive director sought treatment from then-board president Byron Blasco. Her complaint to the dental board claims Blasco tried to charge her for unnecessary treatment that other dentists said she doesn’t need. But the board and the Nevada Attorney General dismissed the complaint.
At a public comment session, Harold David Moore called out the Nevada Board of Dental Examiners, charging corruption and failures to protect patients. Afterwards, board staff filed a restraining order against him. A Las Vegas justice of the peace rejected the restraining order and admonished the board for violating open meetings laws.
Patients who claim dentists made mistakes and injured them say the Nevada Board of Dental Examiners isn’t doing enough to protect the public. While complaints have risen, board actions have plummeted and only a handful of dentists lost their licenses in recent years, a Review-Journal investigation found. Auditors also have found serious problems with the board’s disciplinary process.
The Nevada Board of Dental Examiners and the courts provide patients with ways to check dentists’ background for actions and malpractice lawsuits. But the Review-Journal investigation found that dental board information is sometimes incomplete.
If choose to file a complaint against a Nevada dentist, here are the forms dental board requires a patient to complete.
Take a drive outside of the new Las Vegas Convention Center expansion project. (Severiano Galvan/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
While reporting on the Metropolitan Police Department’s K-9 section, Review-Journal writer Rio Lacanlale agreed to let a 100-pound Dutch shepherd attack her. (Rio Lacanlale/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
The heavy lifting has begun at Allegiant Stadium. Construction crews on Thursday continued the slow process of raising a net of multi-ton steel cables that will support a translucent roof for the $2 billion, 65,000-seat indoor football stadium, which will become home to the Oakland Raiders next year. (Cassie Soto/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
Nevada Highway Patrol Trooper Jason Buratczuk speaks about the helicopter crash in Red Rock Canyon. (James Schaeffer/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
2020 Presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg sits down with Rory Appleton of the Las Vegas Review-Journal.
A woman fatally shot by Henderson police at an apartment complex has been identified.
James and Melissa Holzhauer donated $25,000 to Rancho High School on Friday to help the school make much needed improvements to the campus. (Michael Quine/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
Binion’s debuted its spinning bar inside the Whiskey Licker Up Saloon. The Rotating bar only goes at one full rotation per 15 minutes overlooking the Fremont Street Experience. (James Schaeffer/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
In his first NFL game Raiders rookie safety Johnathan Abram sustained a season ending injury. In this edition of One on One with Johnathan Abram, he details what it’s been like having his rookie season ended so quickly. (Le’Andre Fox/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
At a news conference with Las Vegas law enforcement officials early Friday, Karla Rodriguez’s parents asked the public to help find their daughter, who hasn’t been seen in 20 years. (Bizuayehu Tesfaye/Las Vegas Review-Journal) @bizutesfaye
The Can Can Room’s business license was revoked and the Las Vegas strip club has closed, records show, but the legal battle to force it out of its longtime building is only heating up.
Jeopardy! champ James Holzhauer, appears at the G2E IGT booth to help celebrate launch of Jeopardy! slot machines and compete against attendees in mock games of Jeopardy!
Jacqueline Dillon was struck and killed while walking her granddaughter across the street near the corner of Charleston Boulevard and Arlington Street on April 3, 2019.
The Neon Museum’s annual Boneyard Ball doubled as the opening party for Tim Burton’s long-anticipated exhibit, “Lost Vegas: Tim Burton @ The Neon Museum presented by the Engelstad Foundation.”
ERICK SILVA WAS KILLED PROTECTING OTHER DURING THE MASS SHOOTING AT THE ROUTE 91 FESTIVAL.
HE IS BEING REMEMBERED TODAY AND A PLAGUE WAS PRESENTED IN HIS HONOR AT THE EAST COMMUNITY CENTER
The World War II-era B-17G Flying Fortress bomber nicknamed the “Nine-O-Nine,” which was part of the Wings of Freedom tour that visited Henderson, Nevada in April 2019, crashed Wednesday, Oct. 2, 2019 at Connecticut’s Bradley International Airport killing seven of the thirteen onboard.