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Author H.G. McKinnis on families and mental illness

Goodwill is filing for bankruptcy. The nonprofit says recent expansions and higher costs to operate their stores led to the decision. They filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy yesterday.

How does $3 in exchange for more than $11.8 million sound? Well, a lucky Californian hit the jackpot on Tuesday at theFremont. The Megabucks resets at $10 million.

A Michigan man shopping in a marijuana dispensary on Tuesday is now facing child abuse charges. Police say he left a baby alone in a running car and left the doors unlocked. Child Protective Services opened an investigation.

Footage released on Friday, August 11 shows Conor McGregor sparring with Paulie Malignaggi. (UFC)

Flooding at Sunny Springs Park in Centennial Hills on Friday, Aug. 11, 2017. (Emma Blanchfield/Las Vegas Review-Journal)

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The City of Las Vegas has dumped its flashy new logo after less than a year.

The logo adorned signs, promotional materials, work attire, staff business cards, email signatures, vehicles and equipment.

It cost the city roughly $20,000 to develop and trademark.

Now, the city is pivoting back to the official city seal.

City Manager Scott Adams said a fun logo doesn’t carry with it the gravity the city seal does.

Adams doesn’t estimate there will be much of a cost to the city to transition back to the seal, because the city will re-brand things as they’re retired and replaced.

The man accused of stabbing a Palazzo security guard has made his first court appearance.

Las Vegas police arrested Joseph Espinoza, 34, near The Mirage after the incident.

In 2015 he tried to stab a security guard at the Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas.

Deputy Public Defender Michael Wilfong said Espinoza has a history of mental illness.

In the new case, he faces charges of attempted murder and battery with a deadly weapon.

The injured guard is expected to survive.

Justice of the Peace Pro Tem Holly Stoberski ruled that he will be held on $100,000 bail.

“Maybe my parents can bail me out,” Espinoza said.

A preliminary hearing is slated for Aug. 28.

Bus ridership on the Las Vegas Strip has declined as ride-hailing apps rise.

Nearly 13 million boardings were reported on Strip area routes over the last year.

That’s a 10.3 percent decline from the previous year.

The Regional Transportation Commission says it’s okay with the changes caused by technologies like Uber and Lyft.

It says it may need to change its schedules as a result.

Buses operating along the Strip generated more than $20 million last year, down nearly 12 percent.

Despite the declines, RTC says bus lines along the Strip are the most profitable routes in the U.S.

Nevada has approved opening up marijuana distribution rights.

Nevada’s Department of Taxation has decided that there are an inadequate number of liquor distributors interested in transporting marijuana to retail establishments.

The decision came after a hearing on whether the alcohol industry alone is sufficient to distribute pot to points of sale.

The agency will begin processing distribution licenses to marijuana licensees, Deonne Contine said.

The alcohol industry was given the exclusive right for 18 months to distribute recreational marijuana under the ballot measure that legalized sales. But that exclusivity was based on having enough distributors to fill the need.

A Las Vegas visitor has won a Megabucks jackpot valued at about $11.8 million.
The winner, identified only as Rodolfo T., hit the jackpot about 6:30 p.m. Tuesday at the Fremont in downtown Las Vegas. He made a max-bet wager on the IGT Megabucks Double 3X4X5X Pay game to win the prize.
“The Fremont has awarded many thousands of jackpots throughout its 60-year history in Las Vegas, but none quite like this,” said Vice President and General Manager of Fremont Jim Sullivan said in a email.“We’re incredibly excited to be a part of this amazing jackpot.”
IGT progressive jackpots typically offer a lump sum payment less than the actual jackpot or they can be paid out in annual installments over a number of years.
Megabucks resets at $10 million.

A federal judge in Las Vegas cut short the testimony of an Idaho gun enthusiast in the middle of his Bunkerville standoff retrial.

Eric Parker was photographed in April 2014 pointing a long gun through a barrier on I-15 that overlooked a ditch where protesters had gathered to face BLM agents.

Before the start of the trial, U.S. District Judge Gloria Navarro barred the defense from referencing constitutional rights to freely assemble and to bear arms.

Prosecutors first objected to Parker’s testimony about 20 minutes after he took the stand and uttered the words “First Amendment.”

After spending less than an hour testifying on the stand, Parker seemed to reference the area where he believed a sniper had been.

Acting U.S. Attorney Steve Myhre objected and requested a meeting with the judge and defense attorneys.

Moments later, Navarro returned to the bench and told Parker to step down.

Attorney Jess Marchese said Navarro ruled Parker had violated a court order by describing what he saw.

A teen faces charges after a Las Vegas nursing student was shot to death in his driveway.

Police records implicated De’Mario Lofton-Robinson in the deadly shooting, which Lt. Dan McGrath said happened “for no apparent reason.”

Lofton-Robinson, 18, was arrested Thursday on charges of murder with a deadly weapon, attempted robbery with a deadly weapon and conspiracy to commit robbery.

He’s being held in Clark County Detention Center without bail.

The student killed, Gabriel George Valenzuela, 24, got into a confrontation with four young men.

He was shot at least three times and died at the hospital.

His family was inside the house during the shooting and heard the gunshots.

Pedro Lopez talks about the win over Reno

On Tuesday we saw — again — how little the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority cares about spending taxpayer dollars carefully. (Victor Joecks/Las Vegas Review-Journal)