This week, in the days leading up to the six-year anniversary of the tragedy, Mynda Smith decided her continued healing from that tragic night needed to include donating blood. She participated in the Vegas Strong Resiliency Center Remembrance Blood Drive downtown.
The Las Vegas community will come together this week to remember the victims of the Oct. 1, 2017, mass shooting on the Strip that killed 58 people that night and wounded 800 in what is still the largest mass shooting ...
The Clark County Commission has received a $35,000 donation to help build the 1 October Memorial. At their meeting today, commissioners accepted the donation from the ...
The design for an Oct. 1 memorial cleared its final hurdle today after the Clark County Commission’s unanimous vote to select a proposal from JCJ Architecture. Commissioners voted 6-0 to ...
By Claire Savage, Associated Press/Report for America
More than a year after 11-year-old Mayah Zamora was airlifted out of Uvalde, Texas, where she was critically injured in the Robb Elementary school shooting that killed 19 children and two teachers, the family is still reeling. Knocks on the door startle Mayah into a panic. The family is skipping Fourth of July celebrations to ...
By Stefanie Dazio and Larry Fenn, Associated Press
More than five years after his son was gunned down in the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history, Richard Berger still asks why. Why Stephen Berger was killed the day after celebrating his 44th birthday. Why the gunman rained bullets over the Las Vegas Strip in 2017, turning a country music festival into ...
The Vegas Strong Resiliency Center will receive a Congressional award next week for its work in providing resources to shooting survivors of the Oct. 1, 2017 Route 91 Harvest Festival, according to a news release ...
The high-stakes gambler who opened fire on a concert crowd on the Las Vegas Strip, killing 60 and injuring hundreds more, was angry over how the casinos were treating him despite his high-roller status, according to FBI documents made public this week. The cache of new documents offers the strongest indication yet of why gunman ...
MGM Resorts International has closed on the sale of land on the Las Vegas Strip that was the site of the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history, the company announced ...
It’s been nearly five years since the Oct. 1 mass shooting on the Las Vegas Strip, but it continues to be important to “recognize the strength and resiliency that we continue to demonstrate as a community in response to the tragedy with every passing year,” Clark County Commissioner Jim Gibson said.
A pair of cowboy boots that Ashley Hoff never thought she would see again helped unlock a powerful story about the worst mass shooting in modern U.S. history. The resulting film, “11 Minutes,” is an inside account of the 2017 massacre at a country music festival in Las Vegas and, more importantly, about how it ...
A federal appeals court was told Tuesday that there is no basis in federal law for a Trump administration ban on bump stocks — devices that enable a shooter to fire multiple rounds from ...
“One of the things that we felt were important was the ability to participate,” said Tennille Pereira, director of the Vegas Strong Resiliency Center and chairperson of the ...
The suspects in the shootings at a Uvalde, Texas, elementary school and a Buffalo, New York, supermarket were both just 18, authorities say, when they bought the weapons used in ...
Nevada's Supreme Court ruled gun manufacturers cannot be held responsible for the deaths in the 2017 mass shooting on the Las Vegas Strip because a state law shields them from liability unless the weapon malfunctions.
Dee Ann Hyatt returns to Las Vegas every Oct. 1, no matter how painful the memories. Hyatt, 65, was one of six family members at the Route 91 Harvest country music festival on Oct. 1, 2017, when a gunman opened fire from a hotel tower onto the Strip venue. A total of 58 people ...
“It’s always emotional. There are so many people who think we should be over it," Jill Winter said. "This is not something you ever get over. It’s forever changed us.”
