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Police say a love triangle sparked a deadly east Las Vegas shooting.

Angel C. Fabre, 42, told a roommate he was “afraid something was going to happen.”

Fabre mounted a security camera in the front of the house just hours before his death.

When Fabre spotted a familiar car on video and stepped outside to check, two men began firing multiple rounds.

Fabre died about 2 a.m. at Sunrise hospital.

Larry Rinker and Jimmy Roper face charges of open murder and domestic battery.

They are being held at Clark County Detention Center without bail.

CCSD won’t have a social media policy in place for the start of the school year.

District officials crafted a policy that spells out how teachers should interact with students on social media, but…

The school board won’t vote on it now because of concerns over a new state law requiring background checks for volunteers.

The district’s policy would require volunteers to pay the $60 cost of background checks.

Teachers and parents say that would deter people from donating their time.

The school district has had an ongoing problem with sexual misconduct between employees and students.

More than a dozen teachers were arrested last year on such charges.

It’s unclear when the policy will go back before the board for a vote.

Sam Nazarian’s sbe Entertainment says it is still committed to merging with Hakkasan Group even as months pass without a deal. (Todd Prince/Las Vegas Review-Journal)

A 34-year-old man arrested Wednesday in connection with a stabbing on the Las Vegas Strip is being held on $10,000 bail.

Police arrested Joseph Espinoza. He was charged with attempted murder and battery with a deadly weapon.

A homeless man stabbed a security guard in the chest just before 7 a.m. Wednesday inside the Palazzo.

The security guard, who is expected to survive, was stabbed after he approached a man who was holding a knife and behaving erratically, according to police.

The stabber ran out of the hotel and across Las Vegas Boulevard, police said, making it as far as the The Mirage before he was caught.

Makayla Rhiner’s friends and family do not want her death to be without purpose.

The 21-year-old was killed in front of her southwest valley home last week, and police arrested an ex-boyfriend in connection with the crime.

The family has set up a memorial fund under Rhiner’s name at Wells Fargo Bank. The money will go to a domestic violence group.

Police officers found Rhiner’s body at an apartment complex on the 8000 block of West Russell Road, near Buffalo Drive.

She died of multiple stab and incision wounds to the chest and neck.

Brandon Hanson, 33, was booked into the Clark County Detention Center on Saturday on suspicion of murder.

A police report said he was severely depressed over the couple’s breakup in June.

The couple dated for about three months after meeting while attending classes at the College of Southern Nevada.

Hanson took the breakup badly, threatening to kill himself and vandalizing cars belonging to Rhiner’s mother and her new boyfriend, the report said.

He told police he had done everything he was accused of and that he was suffering from severe depression.

A petition has been filed to recall Henderson Senator Joyce Woodhouse.

Former Republican Assemblyman Stephen Silberkraus is leading the recall effort.

Nevada law does not require a reason to file a recall petition.

Silberkraus and Woodhouse did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

State Senate Majority Leader Aaron Ford blasted the effort, calling it a “pitiful attempt to subvert the will of voters.”

For the effort to succeed, signatures would need to be gathered from 25 percent of people who cast a ballot in the Senate District 5 in 2016. If that happens by Oct. 31, a date would be chosen to hold a special election.

Springs exhibit traces “Vegas Valley Memories”

Former Las Vegas City Councilman Bob Beers, 57, plans to run for Nevada state treasurer in 2018.

State Treasurer Dan Schwartz, also a Republican, has expressed an interest in running in the GOP primary for governor in 2018 instead of seeking a second term as treasurer.

Attorney General Adam Laxalt is also expected to enter the GOP primary for governor.

Beers served in the legislature from 1998 to 2008. He was in the Las Vegas City Council from 2012 to 2017.

A woman is in critical condition after she was slashed in the throat Aug. 10 in a central valley apartment complex.

Officers responded about 4 a.m. at 1500 E. Karen Ave., near East Sahara Avenue and Maryland Parkway.

The woman was taken to the hospital.

The attacker is still at large.

How do you get 65,000 football fans to and from the Raiders stadium, starting in 2020?

Before allowing the project to continue, Clark County has multiple requests:

That a deconstruction plan be in place if the stadium project stops.

That close to 14,000 off-site parking spaces be ready within one year.

And that infrastructure upgrades wholly necessitated by the stadium be provided by the Raiders.

A 30-foot-wide pedestrian bridge spanning Interstate 15 to link the stadium to the Strip is planned.

Consultants expect almost a third of game attendees to walk from hotel rooms located within a mile of the stadium.

The first segment of southbound Interstate 11 will open at 5 a.m. Tuesday.

It runs more than two miles between Railroad Pass hotel and U.S. Highway 95.

Drivers headed south on U.S. Highway 93 will be directed onto southbound I-11’s lanes near the casino.

From there, vehicles will get to use a new 600-foot-long flyover bridge that connects I-11 with the overlapping U.S. highways 93 and 95.

Drivers headed north on U.S. 93 won’t get to use I-11, but traffic lanes will be slightly shifted so that crews can complete the freeway.

Pedro Lopez talks about the loss to Reno

How is home-schooling working for children in the Las Vegas area? The Review-Journal interviewed a family with nine children (all home-schooled) and the woman behind RISE, a resource center for parents that want options outside of the private and public school systems.

A teacher at Northwest Career and Technical Academy won’t get his job back after being fired for watching porn, officials say.

The incident happened on a school computer while students were present, Superintendent Pat Skorkowsky said.

The teacher was removed from the classroom in September and was sent a termination letter on Dec. 12.

The teacher fought that decision, filing a grievance that went to arbitration.

An arbitrator last week upheld the teacher’s termination, the district confirmed.

An attorney for the teachers union identified the instructor as Daryl Slade.

Slade said he intends to fight the arbitrator’s decision.

An 18-year-old man arrested in connection with the deadly stabbing of a woman inside a northwest valley home in early July told Las Vegas police he planned the attack, arrest documents show.
Steven Olsen told police he met 45-year-old Lizzette Schley online, and they hung out together on several occasions, the Metropolitan Police Department report said. After a few months, Olsen decided that he did not want to date Schley anymore because of their age gap.
Olsen said Schley reached out to him to meet up on the morning of July 9 at her house in the 1700 block of Rockcrest Drive for breakfast and to reconnect, the report said.
Instead, he planned to rob and kill Schley, Olsen told police in the report.

Clark County issued a stern message to Southern Nevada marijuana businesses: Stop advertising stoned yoga, or we’ll yank your license to sell weed.
In a letter sent Monday, Clark County Business Licensing Director Jacqueline Holloway told cannabis companies to stop advertising events that promote public marijuana consumption — including events held at a person’s home.
“We write to remind you that public consumption of marijuana is unlawful,” the letter reads.
“It is unlawful to advertise and invite the public to consume marijuana at parties, dining events, recreational events such as yoga and swimming, and other types of events, even if events are held in a private residence.”
Holloway also noted that any pot business found to be sponsoring or even affiliated with an event or business promoting public consumption “risks the suspension or revocation of their business license.”
County spokesman Erik Pappa said some of businesses were recently listed as sponsors for events that paired yoga and karate with marijuana consumption.

On the shelf in Adam Rella’s studio is at least ten binders, two inches thick, of plastic coated drawings. Thousands and thousands of drawings.

A D.J., photographer and artist, Rella has spent more than ten years drawing simple, comical faces and characters that he says connect with any age, race, or gender. He works in a variety of mediums, uses bright colors, and sometimes simple phrases to pull the viewer in, like “have it your way,” or “let’s bubble baby.”

He said that growing up he loved cartoons and wacky faces, just “balls of energy” that make you feel good. He’s worked to keep the upbeat vibe in his art.

“(Art) should never give you a negative feeling,” he says.

He plans to create his brand, Pretty Done, into a global empire, placing his work on anything from toys to clothes to furniture.

The Ferguson Motel, of the Downtown Project, commissioned him to paint two murals.

You can see is work at prettydone.com
(Rachel Aston/Las Vegas Review-Journal) @rookie__rae

The parent company of Station Casinos has announced plans to add luxury movie theaters and a resort-style pool complex to Palace Station as part of a $191 million investment in two properties.
Company executives said in an earnings call for Red Rock Resorts on Tuesday that $76 million in new improvements at Palace Station also would include a new restaurant, casino bar, race and sports book and a renovated poker room. The new investment is in addition to a completed $115 million renovation and expansion that includes a new low-rise exterior facade, two restaurants, porte-cochere, casino valet, new bingo room and improved parking and access at Palace. The project is expected to be completed by the end of 2018.
Station also is putting $146 million into two restaurants, an upgrade to movie theaters, renovated meeting and convention space, a rooftop ultralounge, a new high-limit area, new hotel registration and VIP check-in areas and other projects at its recently acquired Palms property. Those projects are expected to be completed by next year’s second quarter.

A student pulled into his central-valley driveway Wednesday morning and checked his mail. Moments later, he was shot “for no apparent reason,” police said.
The student, a man about 25 years old, got into a confrontation with four young men, Metropolitan Police Department said. He was then shot at least three times in his driveway about 12:10 a.m. on the 5500 block of West Dewey Drive, near Russell and Lindell roads.
He died at a hospital, Metro Lt. David Gordon said.
The door to his car was still open as homicide detectives investigated Wednesday morning.

The Vegas Golden Knights will get to keep their nickname.
The NHL expansion team was partially successful in their appeal to have their name and logos trademarked after the United States Patent and Trademark Office gave approval for the team to continue to use its name for identification and competition purposes.
However, it did not grant the same approval for the team to protect its logo on its merchandise and sportswear. That trademark is suspended pending further appeal.
Initially, the patent office denied the team’s trademark request in December, citing it might cause confusion with a college in New York that also had the Golden Knights nickname. The NHL expansion team appealed in early June and received its ruling Tuesday.
Peter Sadowski, the team’s legal counsel, said there will be another attempt to get the same protection for the logos and merchandise.

A transient man stabbed a resort security guard in the chest on the casino floor of a Strip hotel Wednesday morning, Las Vegas police said.
The Metropolitan Police Department responded to reports of a stabbing inside the Palazzo, 3325 Las Vegas Blvd. South, just before 7 a.m.
Las Vegas police spokeswoman Laura Meltzer said the security guard approached a man with a knife who had been behaving erratically and was stabbed in the chest.
The assailant, described only as a homeless man who frequented the area, then fled the hotel and ran across the boulevard. Police arrested a suspect shortly afterward near The Mirage, Meltzer said.

The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas is investing more than $100 million to upgrade its rooms, joining a growing list of Strip casinos refreshing properties as tourism flourishes in the nation’s entertainment capital.
The two-tower, high-rise casino will gut 2,895 rooms in its first major renovation since opening nearly seven years ago, said Patrick Nichols, senior vice president of strategy and business development.
The Cosmopolitan launched the upgrade of the Boulevard Tower in June and aims to complete it before the end of the year. It will start on the Chelsea Tower in January and finish it later in 2018, said Nichols.
“We are stripping the rooms down to concrete floors and drywall,” said Nichols. “We will have a fully renovated room product in December 2018.”
In addition to new furniture and fixtures, The Cosmopolitan will add 65-inch TVs as well as iPads to every room.