People across Las Vegas celebrate the upcoming New Year on the Las Vegas Strip and Fremont Street.
Scott Dykstra, 23, weaves around revelers on the Las Vegas Strip on New Year’s Eve as Marc Belizario shoots for a music video.
A reminder for those heading out to New Year’s Eve parties tonight: The Strip and the roads leading to have closed. On-ramps and off-ramps to Interstate 15 just west of the Strip were also closed at 5 p.m. at Spring Mountain Road, Flamingo Road and Tropicana Avenue. Police will start clearing out vehicle traffic along the Strip at 6:15 p.m.
The Rape Crisis Center is reminding holiday revelers to stay safe and aware as they head to New Year’s Eve celebrations across the valley. As part of its “Party Smart” campaign, the center is reminding people planning to go out to arrive together, stay together and leave together. When the party ends, make sure you leave with everyone who came with you, the center said. Don’t let intoxicated friends leave with strangers and use licensed and labeled transportation services to get home.
Uber driver Michael Niskar talks about the Strip properties that are hard for ride-share companies to access.
A “terroristic threat” led to an arrest after a showing of “Star Wars: The Last Jedi” on December 15 at AMC Town Square 18 on the southern end of the Las Vegas Strip.
What has 12 bands, more than 80,000 firework devices and some 330,000 guests from all over the world? “America’s Party” 2018. Las Vegas’ recurring New Year’s Eve bash is back and better than ever, officials say. Specifics for the event, which occurs on the Strip and in Downtown Las Vegas, were unveiled Thursday at Fashion Show mall. For the 11th year in a row Fireworks By Grucci is orchestrating the launching of fireworks across seven hotel-casino rooftops stretching from the Stratosphere to the MGM Grand. Beginning at midnight, pyrotechnics will light up the Las Vegas skyline for eight minutes. The explosions will be choreographed to songs by artists including Eric Clapton, Judas Priest and Bruce Springsteen.
800 steel posts in place on the Las Vegas Strip. 7,500 still to install in 2018. Posts will stop a 15,000-pound vehicle going 50 mph.
It’s been more than three months since the Fontainebleau sold for $600 million. But there’s still no word from the buyers on what they’ll do with the mothballed tower on the Las Vegas Strip. Records show they’re calling their effort “Project Blue” and that a contractor was hired to finish construction. But other details remain unknown. (Eli Segall/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
Craig Drummond, an attorney at Drummond Law Firm in Las Vegas, discusses the Nevada Supreme Court decision on Humphries v. New York-New York Hotel & Casino and the impact it will have on litigation against Mandalay Bay on Thursday, Nov. 16, 2017. (Joel Angel Juarez/Las Vegas Review-Journal) @jajuarezphoto
Lawyer Robert Eglet explains the 5 types of victims that could receive compensation as a result of the Oct. 1 mass shooting in Las Vegas. Elaine Wilson/Las Vegas Review-Journal
The last patient hospitalized locally as a result of the Oct. 1 Strip shooting has been discharged. The patient, who was not identified, was discharged Saturday, almost six weeks after the attack, from St. Rose Dominican Hospital.
Metro police, national security agencies and truck rental headquarters had been educating Las Vegas employees about suspicious customer behavior. “We have been doing training dating back to November 2016 — after the Paris and Nice attacks — as part of our ‘See Something, Say Something campaign,’” said Las Vegas Metro Police spokesman Jay Rivera. Rivera said the LVMPD has visited many rental companies as well as other transportation companies, including taxis, Uber and Lyft. He did not say how many local transport companies Metro has visited to date.
Installation of the roughly 4-foot posts, called bollards, began early Monday on the Strip near the Hawaiian Marketplace south of Planet Hollywood. They are meant to protect pedestrians walking on the Strip from vehicle-ramming attacks and traffic accidents, Clark County spokesman Dan Kulin said. “It’s good to see those go up because there’s so much sidewalk here that isn’t protected,” said Maritza Cabrera. “It’s not just keeping cars off the sidewalk, it’s keeping people out of the street.”
A court order is preventing vendors from retrieving their equipment and items they were selling at the Route 91 Harvest festival, the site of the shooting on Oct. 1.
The operator of the hotel closest to the Route 91 Harvest Festival grounds not operated by MGM Resorts International said the Tropicana Las Vegas experienced a 35 percent cancellation rate on bookings in the days immediately following the Oct. 1 mass shooting. But Jay Snowden, president and chief operating officer of Penn National Gaming, said there were no group cancellations and that the downturn in bookings appears to be a short-term situation that is gradually going away. Penn was the first gaming company to publicly quantify the extent of cancellations in relation to the shooting. MGM Resorts reports quarterly earnings on Nov. 8.
A therapist who has helped Metro officers recover from traumatic experiences in the past talks about her daughter who was shot during the festival.
Las Vegas Metro officer Brady Cook was shot while responding to the Route 91 Harvest festival shooting on the Strip on his second day of field training. (Elizabeth Brumley Las Vegas Review-Journal)
At 10:05 p.m., the Las Vegas Strip went dark for 11 minutes in honor of the victims of the Las Vegas shooting on October 1.
Las Vegas Strip mass murderer Stephen Paddock used his Mandalay Bay hotel room to spray massive aviation fuel tanks with bullets Sunday night, a knowledgeable source told the Las Vegas Review-Journal. One bullet penetrated one of the circular white tanks but did not cause a fire, sparing the nearby Route 91 Harvest country music festival from a potentially massive explosion, the source said Wednesday. The tanks are roughly 1,100 feet from the concert site, where Paddock killed 58 people and wounded almost 500.
Memorials are scattered around to the Las Vegas Strip to remember the victims of the mass shooting at the Route 91 Country Music Festival. #VegasStrong
Lisa Patterson, a California mother of three, is among those killed in the attack on the Route 91 Harvest music festival on the Las Vegas Strip. Lisa Patterson lived in Lomita and volunteered in the Palos Verdes Girls Softball League, according to KPBS in Los Angeles. “Lisa had an infectious energy and fierce love for her family, and we are beyond heartbroken for Bob and their three kids,” friend Andy Tamilin wrote on the GoFundMe page.
A brief explanation of the timeline of the Las Vegas Mass Shooting at the Route 91 Country Music Festival.
Video taken by Cori Langdon at Mandalay Bay while driving away from the shooting and picking up passengers.
Video taken by Cori Langdon at Mandalay Bay when the shooting began at the Route 91 Country Music Festival.
A police dispatch call saying that one suspect is down on the 32nd floor on the Mandalay Bay in room 135.
Witness video provided by Lily Lustig from the Route 91 Harvest Country Music Festival.
The Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department reported at least 59 dead, more than 525 injured. Police found 23 guns in the shooter’s Mandalay Bay hotel room, 19 more in his Mesquite residence. Blood donations centers have asked those wishing to donate to wait until Tuesday afternoon at the soonest. Metro is still investigating any potential motives the shooter might have had.
Las Vegas police said Monday that at least 59 people died in the mass shooting at the Route 91 Harvest festival on Sunday night. Take time to remember some of the victims who are pictured here. (Zac Pacleb/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
Sonny Melton was killed in the hail of gunfire that rained down from the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino. He and his wife, Heather, work at Henry County Medical Center and had taken time off from work specifically to attend the three-day country music concert Sonny was in his early 30s and had graduated from nursing school about three years ago. Medical center CEO said: “He was an excellent person. Everyone liked him. He was a very caring individual.”