Las Vegas Review-Journal

Inaugural Cup victory

The Green Valley Gators celebrate their championship victory over Basic Academy in the first Division II Superintendent’s Cup on Friday night at Basic Academy in Henderson. Green Valley’s one loss of the year was to Basic in September.

LV’S ‘luckiest man’ dies

Joey Cusumano was — the FBI and the Metropolitan Police Department alleged — a trusted associate of Anthony Spilotro, the Chicago mob’s overseer in Las Vegas. Cusumano died Tuesday at 90. Unlike Spilotro and some of his unluckier contemporaries,...

Overseeing the future

Taylor Smith checks out a model of the Las Vegas Athletics baseball stadium Wednesday before being introduced as the team’s president of baseball operations during a news conference in Las Vegas. The club announced the hire Monday.

GETTING A LEG UP

H Ewas overseeing an intra-squad scrimmage when the news came down. Nick Garritano had told one of his UNLV baseball team’s managers to keep track of the school’s football game at Air Force on Saturday. “He comes up to me and says, ‘Coach, don’t you...

2 dozen noncitizens arrested

Federal authorities charged more than two dozen foreign nationals Monday in California as part of a statewide sweep targeting people who officials say have illegally registered or voted in U.S. elections. The arrests are part of a Trump administration...

‘Halloveen’ happiness

A child dressed as a witch looks at lights while walking through Opportunity Village’s “Halloveen” at the Magical Forest on Sunday night. The holiday event is open nightly, beginning at 5:30, through Halloween at 6300 W. Oakey Blvd. Tickets are priced...

Officials: Cold case solved

CHICAGO — Eightyear-old Gloria Kowalewicz’s school and church were less than a half-mile from her back door in West Englewood, Illinois. On Nov. 12, 1960, a Saturday, her mother Esther was up early to get her dressed. Gloria had received her First...

Rare rain for Vegas Valley

Tropical Storm Rachel slammed Southern California over the weekend before its remnants dropped on Las Vegas with record-setting rainfall early Sunday morning. Las Vegas received 1.08 inches of rain from midnight into the morning, breaking the daily...

CALIFORNIA COAST BRACING FOR RACHEL

LOS ANGELES — Hurricane Rachel, currently spinning out in the Pacific Ocean, is expected to raise the risk of coastal flooding in Southern California and could bring widespread rain to the region at some point this weekend and early next...

Five times crowned

It doesn’t get old for A’ja Wilson. She’s done this five times now, further cementing herself as the greatest of all time. The emotions are the same, if not a little more. “They’ve always been special, but this one here, I cried a little bit harder,”...

Tears flow again in Israel

REIM, Israel — On a field where music festival revelers were gunned down by Hamas-led terrorists three years ago, Israelis on Wednesday embraced and wept for those lost in an attack that plunged the Middle East into war. Israelis mourned at the site...

‘An alarming reality’

It was an innocuous Facebook post from a Summerlin synagogue, an invitation that turned ugly, somehow. “Celebrate the High Holy Days with the whole family at Temple Sinai on September 13!” the announcement read, complete with apple and Jewish star...

Family mourns teen who ‘was a protector’

While at a Friday rock concert on the Strip, Tara Mesaric-rodgers heard news of a shooting downtown. Knowing her eldest son was at First Friday in the Arts District, she pulled out her phone. She checked her son’s location, which confirmed he was...

Winning big in Las Vegas

Chase Briscoe felt a bit of deja vu during the final laps of Sunday’s South Point 400 at Las Vegas Motor Speedway. A week ago at Kansas, Briscoe was in the lead late in the race as Kyle Larson chased him down. Larson passed Briscoe with seven laps to...

Flydubai pilot said, ‘I was fighting for my life’

NEW DELHI — The Indian airline captain who helped thwart an apparent attempt to crash a Flydubai flight described Friday how he fought for his life in the minutes after his co-pilot stabbed him and the plane began a steep descent. Capt. Smit...

‘It is about paying respect’

Three thousand two hundred eighty-seven days have passed since Debby Allen’s life and the lives of her loved ones changed forever, she said Thursday. On Oct. 1, 2017, Allen’s son, Christopher Roybal, 28, was killed at the Route 91 Harvest music...

Air disaster thwarted

TEL AVIV, Israel — A copilot stabbed a captain in an apparent attempt to crash a jetliner as it was flying 174 people to Israel on Wednesday. But passengers burst into the cockpit and wrestled with the attacker even as the plane descended sharply,...

Trump: Tech firms to self-police AI

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump shot down the idea of new federal regulations on artificial intelligence after meeting at the White House with top industry executives amid growing global concerns over threats posed by the technology. In lieu of...

Showpiece rocket heads to space

Spacex launches its most advanced Starlink satellites yet in abbreviated flight

Dune revival may give age-old rock clues

The remarkable recovery of dunes in Death Valley after some were obliterated by remnants of a hurricane may offer clues to how scientists should interpret rocks to study ancient flooding, new research suggests. The study, published in the Journal of...

Emergency save for area schools

AFTER the Clark County School District said it would cut more than $51 million from its budget this fall because of declining enrollment and higher employee pay, Gov. Joe Lombardo on Friday endorsed an emergency regulation intended to avert those...

Carrying his brother’s torch

Las Vegas Raiders wide receiver Jack Bech will return this weekend to New Orleans, a place he once loved to visit with his family from two hours down the road in Lafayette, Louisiana. He will be joined by a huge group of friends and family hoping to...

Deal on, deal off

‘Big decision to make’

UNITED NATIONS — President Donald Trump said U.S. and Iranian officials met Tuesday, an unexpected engagement that came even as he threatened in his address to the U.N. General Assembly that he may “annihilate” the Islamic Republic if a deal isn’t...

Carrot Top faces lawsuit, makes claim of extortion

The recent hospitalization of Scott Thompson, the comedian better known as Carrot Top, followed a flurry of filings in a Florida lawsuit, including claims that he sexually exploited another man and was being extorted by a singer. A declaration in the...

Parks plan draws anger

MORE than a dozen Las Vegas city parks are getting makeovers, changes that officials say will save 82 million gallons of water per year but have some residents incensed about the potential consequences. At Thursday’s Southern Nevada Water Authority...

Terms loom for data centers

Companies seeking to build data centers in Nevada will have to pay taxes toward schools and take other steps to support their communities under an executive order signed by Gov. Joe Lombardo. The news, announced early Friday, comes amid growing...

Royal demolition near Strip

A shuttered hotel near the Strip was turned into a mountain of rubble this week. Work crews recently started tearing down the Royal Resort on Convention Center Drive. Much of the eight-story building was still standing as of Monday, and then, the...

Fed ups interest rate

WASHINGTON — The Federal Reserve raised its benchmark interest rate Wednesday for the first time since 2023 in an effort to quell stubbornly high inflation, and the central bank signaled another rate hike could occur later this year. The quarter-point...

NDE: Grade-level targets still unmet

Most Nevada and Clark County School District students did not meet grade-level expectations in English and math last school year, new data from the Nevada Department of Education shows, continuing a long-standing trend in the Silver State. School...

WHO CONTROLS THE WORLD?

New warnings from within the artificial-intelligence industry have revived a long-running debate over whether advanced AI could escape human control and ultimately threaten humanity’s survival, and whether the companies developing the technology are...

CCSD plan grows, answers bell

SOME Safekey programs in the Las Vegas Valley are seeing increased enrollment after the Clark County School District’s new bell schedule left parents with rigid work schedules searching for childcare options. Safekey is a before- and after-school...

A day of remembrance

Twenty-five years after one of the most harrowing days in modern American history, several events in the Las Vegas Valley paid homage Friday to the first responders and thousands of people who were killed in the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. A...

Bush relives tragedy

DALLAS — George W. Bush was spirited away from a classroom in Florida to a secure location in the Midwest just minutes after learning of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on American soil. The president was frustrated about not being at the White...

Never forgotten

The sun will rise Friday, and Junior ROTC cadets at Palo Verde High School will continue a decades-long tradition. Hundreds of students and dozens of first responders will gather at a memorial near the school’s soccer field. JROTC cadets will raise,...

President: ‘Never forget’

WASHINGTON — Nearly a quarter century after a day “etched forever into the memories of Americans,” President Donald Trump honored the victims of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on Tuesday by vowing to “never forget.” The event at the Ellipse was...

Born out of need, built out of deeds

TOUTED as a civil engineering marvel before construction even began, the immense Mike O’callaghan-pat Tillman Memorial Bridge hangs about 90 stories above the Colorado River, overlooking the storied Hoover Dam. There was a time when the most viable...

‘Super’ El Niño looms

ABNORMALLY hot temperatures in the Pacific Ocean have sparked questions about whether a “Super” El Niño cycle could bring extreme or erratic weather this year. But El Niño does not guarantee any specific weather despite the hype, according to Dan...

Henderson will fete its U.S. titlists

Members of the Paseo Verde Little League team will be the guests of honor later this month as the city of Henderson celebrates its U.S. champions. The city announced Friday that plans are in the works for a free Sept. 19 event at the Lee’s Family...

Labor Day weekend gas record to fall this week

Drivers should expect to pay record-high Labor Day weekend gas prices in the Las Vegas Valley, besting the previous high set in 2022, as prices continue to increase nationwide. The average price of regular unleaded gasoline in the valley was $4.90 a...

U Remind Me of someone

AS Usher for Real checked out Usher in Wax, the celebrated entertainer’s wife looked on with an approving smile. “They got it right,” Jennifer Goicoechea said Wednesday at Madame Tussauds wax museum at The Venetian’s Grand Canal Shoppes. Usher’s...

Judge ‘loved helping people’

Former Clark County District Judge Jackie Glass’ family decided to hold a private funeral after her death Friday. But based on word of mouth, 250 people learned the details anyway and showed up for the Monday service, her husband, Clark County...

Two dead, many missing in flood

Buildings are seen in flood-damaged Bright Angel Canyon on Monday in Grand Canyon National Park in Arizona. The area was hit with flash flooding Saturday, and at least 12 people remain missing, including two men on a dream trip.

Cruel world sometimes

A Paseo Verde player walks off Sunday as Curaçao celebrates its 11-2 win in the Little League World Series title game in South Williamsport, Pa. The Henderson team’s loss marked the second straight year a Nevada team finished runner-up.

Judge denies eligibility plea

A federal judge on Friday denied a request from a UNLV football player for a temporary restraining order preventing the NCAA from declaring him ineligible. While Chief U.S. District Judge Andrew Gordon said it would be up to UNLV to decide whether to...

Defense rests in Tupac trial

The defense rested Thursday in the trial over the slaying of rapper Tupac Shakur after a detective previously assigned to the case said he would have arrested the defendant in 2009. A defense attorney for Duane Davis, 63, and prosecutors will make...

Paseo Verde gets through

Paseo Verde routed Davenport, Iowa, 14-6 to reach the U.S. championship.

Beloved music and film icon

DOLLY PARTON, the country music icon whose soaring vibrato vocals, poignant songwriting and sparkling costumes defined her rise from a log cabin in the Tennessee mountains to the height of stardom and acclaim, has died in Nashville. She was 80. “After...

State sues over cuts

Nevada officials filed a federal lawsuit challenging the Trump administration’s order for cuts in water use Monday, marking a major escalation of tensions between the seven states that share the Colorado River. The complaint, filed in the U.S....

Strip sight soars

Construction continues at Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Las Vegas, the Strip’s largest and most-visible resort project. The 42-story Guitar Hotel, which topped out this spring, is now largely enclosed in blue-tinted glass, while exterior sheathing covers...

Warning in 2020: Ponder ‘lost way’

A Las Vegas attorney warned the nonprofit Hope for Prisoners that the organization’s founder, Jon Ponder, had “lost his way” nearly six years before Ponder’s arrest Tuesday on suspicion of sex assault and other charges, the Las Vegas Review-journal has...

A’s roof structure progressing

The roof of the Athletics’ Las Vegas ballpark is steadily coming together as crews on Tuesday morning completed the installation of the stadium’s second steel truss arch. The truss, made up of five steel pieces arching over the stadium and attached to...

Tupac tight-lipped

The first witness Monday at the trial of the man accused of orchestrating the killing of rapper Tupac Shakur was a former Metropolitan Police Department officer who spoke with Shakur after the shooting that would ultimately claim his life. Garry Dale...

Nevada faces steep cuts

NEVADA is likely to give up a sixth of its Colorado River allocation next year as the federal government prepares to impose its strictest limits ever on the state’s water use, according to a document released Friday. That could be followed by even...

Airlines coping with heat

With temperatures expected to soar to around 115 degrees over the weekend, air travelers leaving Las Vegas should prepare for possible cancellations and delays — or in even rarer occasions to be bumped by their airline. Flights were delayed last...

Hoover Dam off limits

Hoover Dam remained closed to visitors Wednesday after federal officials first confirmed the closure Monday evening. Federal officials have not announced a reopening date for the popular tourist site, and a spokesperson for the U.S. Bureau of...

Graham recalled as Senate ‘giant’

WASHINGTON — Sen. Lindsey Graham, the son of pool hall owners who rose to become one of his generation’s more influential U.S. politicians at home and abroad, was eulogized Tuesday as “a true American original” during memorial services in...

President asks court to approve voting list

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration asked the Supreme Court on Monday to clear the way for an executive order from President Donald Trump that could dramatically change mail-in voting ahead of November’s midterm elections. The Justice Department...