Aces players talk following an 88-74 victory over the Indiana Fever at Mandalay Bay Events Center. (Sam Gordon/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
The Aces are building a rapport with the Las Vegas Valley with their improved play and concerted effort to engage the community.
CEO Rossi Ralenkotter is the third-highest-paid public official in the state He has a pay and benefits package valued at $863,000 annually. Ralenkotter does not have an employment contract He announced his retirement in mid June, amid a scandal over airline gift cards LVCVA bought $90,000 in Southwest Airline gift cards between 2012 and 2017. Now auditors can’t account for more than $50,000 of the cards. Ralenkotter and his family used $16,207 in gift cards on 56 trips. Brig Lawson, the senior director of business partnerships, was responsible for buying and distributing the cards. He recently resigned. Ralenkotter’s retirement settlement package could cost taxpayers thousands of dollars.
Colyn Abron and Aaliyah Thomas, 17-year-old ambassadors for Clark County’s Summer Business Institute internship program, discuss students’ presentation on school safety to a panel of nine Las Vegas community leaders Friday. (Katelyn Newberg/ Las Vegas Review-Journal)
Thunderstorms battered parts of the Las Vegas Valley on Thursday, downing power lines and causing flooding in some areas. (Ben Hager/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
Kayla McBride scored 27 points, including a late layup off a steal, as the Aces beat the Phoenix Mercury 85-82 on Thursday night.
Brock Leach, chief operating officer of Oasis Biotech, discusses the new plant factory at its grand opening on July 18. (Bailey Schulz/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
Construction on the first innovation building at the UNLV Tech Park is underway. (Bailey Schulz/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
Video from body worn camera footage released by the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department Wednesday shows an officer realizing his police vehicle has been taken during the chaos of the Route 91 shooting. It was later recovered at Sunrise hospital with the keys in the ignition and nothing removed. (Madelyn Reese/ Las Vegas Review-Journal)
An intense chase near Downtown Las Vegas ends after gunfire is exchanged as the suspect flees on busy streets and ends up near an elementary school. (Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department)
Another baseball All-Star Game will be played in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday night. Some guys have been known to fake injuries to get out of playing in it. Baseball writers say the All-Star Game needs to be fixed, to make it interesting again. Las Vegas resident Jerry Reuss, who pitched in two All-Star Games, says the game is fine as is. Jerry Reuss
The Aces, in the midst of a four-game winning streak, fumbled an opportunity to claim another signature victory, and were outscored 35-15 in the fourth quarter en route to a 99-78 loss at Mandalay Bay Events Center.
Aces lose to Sparks at Mandalay Bay Events Center. (NBA video)
Tony DeFrancesco talks about the win over Albuquerque on July 14, 2018, at Cashman Field. (Betsy Helfand/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
U.S. Rep. Greg Walden, R-Ore., talks about his first visit to Yucca Mountain as part of a congressional tour of the nuclear repository waste site that lies about 90 miles north of Las Vegas.
NBA commissioner Adam Silver talks about the league’s strong presence in June and July. (Mark Anderson/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
Tony DeFrancesco talks about the win over Albuquerque on July 13, 2018, at Cashman Field. (Betsy Helfand/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
Devin Battersby attaches a black-colored device to the back of her iPhone and snaps several of the inside and outside of a Louis Vuitton wallet. The device, installed with artificial intelligence capabilities, analyzes the images using a patented microscopic technology. Within a few minutes, Battersby receives an answer on her app. The designer item is authentic.
Officers responding to the scene at Mandalay Bay comment on difficult communications on the night of the Oct. 1 shooting on the Las Vegas Strip.
A Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department officer cycles through radio channels searching for information as he awaits ambulance traffic just outside University Medical Center on the night of the Oct. 1 shooting on the Strip.
Body cam video from Oct. 1 shows a Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department officer using his radio to summon medical aid for shooting victims near the Route 91 Harvest country music festival.
Tony DeFrancesco talks about the win over Albuquerque on July 12, 2018, at Cashman Field. (Betsy Helfand/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
SLS Las Vegas used to be the Sahara, which opened in 1952 as a $5.5 million, Moroccan-themed resort 1959: A convention hall on the north side of the Sahara is added as well as a 127-foot sign. 1959: Comedian Don Rickles makes the first of many appearances in the Casbar lounge. George Burns also appears in the Casbar lounge. 1961: Del Webb acquires the Sahara through a stock transaction involving 1.5 million shares in the Del Webb Corp. valued at about $12 million. The Sahara adds a $5 million, 24-story skyscraper with 400 rooms, bringing its total to more than 800. 1964: Stan Irwin, the Sahara entertainment director, brings The Beatles to Las Vegas. They perform at the Las Vegas Convention Center and stay at the hotel. 1982: Paul Lowden buys the Sahara for $50 million. 1988: A 26-story tower is added, bringing the room total to 1,500. Lowden expands the casino area and opens a new race and sports book. 1995: Bill Bennett buys the Sahara for $193 million, including 39 acres west of the Strip. 2007: SBE Entertainment and Stockbridge Real Estate buy the Sahara for between $300 million and $400 million. 2011: The Sahara closes 2017: The Meruelo Group announces it had agreed to buy the struggling SLS Las Vegas from Stockbridge Capital Group
Harry Giles and Marvin Bagley III talk about their play for the Sacramento Kings. Video by Mark Anderson/Las Vegas Review-Journal
Bigelow Aerospace’s vice president of corporate strategy discusses the company’s plans with more than $158 million in tax abatements. (Bailey Schulz/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
Rookie wing Zhaire Smith was selected with the No. 16 overall pick in the NBA Draft after one year at Texas Tech. (Sam Gordon/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
U.S. Sen. Dean Heller, R-Nev., speaks during an interview with the Las Vegas-Review-Journal
Jim Hurja talks about the aftermath of the Carpenter 1 fire (Chase Stevens/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
Nevada Highway Patrol Officer Joseph DellaBella helped deliver Brenda Velasquez-Cartegena’s daughter Thursday morning in front of Sunrise Hospital and Medical Center in Las Vegas. DellaBella went to visit Velasquez-Cartegena and her daughter, Bianca Garcia-Velasquez, Friday afternoon with baby supplies and received a surprise of his own: he was asked to be a godfather. (Katelyn Newberg/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
Three men were shot Thursday night in southeast Las Vegas, and two of them have life threatening injuries.
Las Vegas police responded to the incident just after 10 p.m. on the 5000 block of Mountain Vista Street.
The investigation is in its early stages and police were unable to describe the suspect or say how man people they think were involved. Police encourage anyone with information regarding this shooting to call Crime Stoppers at 702-385-5555, or 3-1-1