Las Vegas police are looking for a black Range Rover after a sudden burst of gunshots and a car fire led to the deaths of three people on the famed Strip, shutting down the gambling boulevard in several directions.
A Range Rover Sport with black rims and tinted windows pulled up to a Maserati at a stoplight at the intersection of Las Vegas and Flamingo Boulevards around 4:20 a.m. Thursday, Sgt. John Sheahan of the Las Vegas Police Department said.
Early reports indicated that guns were fired from both the Range Rover and the victims’ Maserati; however, police say there is no evidence that the second vehicle’s occupants fired a weapon of any kind. In addition to the three casualties, three additional victims were treated and released from a local hospital for minor injuries, and a fourth remains at the medical facility for additional treatment.
We have a joke around here. Pretty soon we’re going to have such long commercial breaks that people are going to tune in and all they’ll hear is: ‘Hello, welcome to News 3. And goodbye.’Lisa Howfield, general manager of local NBC-afficiliate KSNV - Commenting on the increasingly long, and repetitive, commercial breaks that are beginning to wear thin on many television viewers in/around Las Vegas. The city just set a new record for most political ads in a single year, passing the old record of 73,000, with nearly a month to go before Election Day 2012. In total, 98 ads are currently in circulation on Las Vegas television networks, and are being run more than 10,000 times per week. source
Green Day singer Billie Joe Armstrong had a rough weekend, as this statement from the band explains:
Billie Joe is seeking treatment for substance abuse. We would like everyone to know that our set was not cut short by Clear Channel and to apologize to those we offended at the iHeartRadio Festival in Las Vegas. We regretfully must postpone some of our upcoming promotional appearances.
There is video of the incident, in case you missed (warning: swears).
We love headlines like this. Adelson, you’ll recall, is the casino magnate who single-handedly kept Newt Gingrich’s presidential campaign from collapsing so moons ago. He’s still a prominent Republican contributor, and the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee—the party apparatus in charge of electing House Democrats—is in some hot water for making some sketchily-sourced claims about Adelson. They caved yesterday and apologized after Adelson threatened to sue. source
In which Wolf Blitzer, of all people, schools Donald Trump on the air over his position on birtherism. An excerpt:
WB: Donald, you’re beginning to sound a little ridiculous, I have to tell you.
DT: You are, Wolf. Let me tell you something, I think you sound ridiculous, and if you’d ask me a question and let me answer it.
WB: Here’s the question, did the conspiracy start in 1961 where theHonolulu Star-Bulletin and the Advertiser contemporaneously published announcements that he was born in Hawaii?
DT: Many people put those announcements in because they wanted to get the benefit because of getting so-called born in this country. Many people did it. It was something done by many people even though they weren’t born in the country. You know and I know it.
Trump hosts a fundraiser for Mitt Romney tonight in Las Vegas.
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Long done with this issue, admittedly, but there’s a great laugh-out-loud moment six minutes in where Wolf asks Trump what “his people” found about Obama’s birth certificate back in April of last year — he claimed to Meredith Viera that his people “cannot believe what they’re finding” about Obama’s birth certificate. “We don’t have to go into OLD NEWS,” Trump says. “That’s old news.”
A lavish General Services Administration Las Vegas conference, which occurred back in 2010, continues to simmer with controversy, with yesterday’s release of a number of videos shot at the event. The above is just one of many. The event has become something of a delayed-effect black eye for the Obama administration, at odds as it clearly is with a message of fiscal restraint. While the total price tag ($820,000) is a pittance in terms of federal spending figures, it’s a staggering amount to any normal human being, and the needlessness of it is laid pretty bare. Incidentally, President Obama himself decried this sort of behaviour back in 2010, though not about the GSA — he scolded corporate retreats to Las Vegas, made by companies who had received taxpayer bailouts.
A clown. A mind-reader. This sounds like a birthday party I attended at the age of 6. I don’t remember much. I think I cried a lot.The Washington Post’s Alexandra Petri • Mocking the resignation of General Services Administration head Martha N. Johnson, who resigned Monday amid word of a lavish training conference in Las Vegas, held on the taxpayer’s dime. “Forget partying like a rock star. I want to party like the GSA,” Petri writes. We’re with her. Those bureaucrats get to have all the fun.
This story is incredibly sad. Watch the video; the guy’s tale is just heartbreaking, despite the nature of it. Give the story more credit than “Las Vegas man with 100-pound scrotum seeks money for surgery” might suggest. He has to resort to going on Howard Stern — a low blow of pride — just to help pay for the $1 million in surgery needed.
Hello, and welcome to yet another GOP debate! YAY WE’RE SO EXCITED! Hopefully Anderson Cooper won’t screw this up (don’t take any tips from Wolf Blitzer, bro). Here are a few things to look for during tonight’s debate:
The GOP presidential candidates re-enter the debate fray tonight at 8 p.m. on CNN.
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