Full Coverage: Mass shooting in Las Vegas
A gunman attacked a Las Vegas country music festival Sunday night, killing 58 people and injuring more than 500 others.
The suspect, 64-year-old Stephen Paddock of Mesquite, Nev., opened fire at the concert across the street from the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino.
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An Arizona man who sold hundreds of rounds of ammunition to Las Vegas gunman Stephen Paddock said Wednesday he had no idea Paddock might be planning a mass shooting.
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Authorities were looking into an additional “person of interest” following the mass shooting in Las Vegas that killed 58 people and wounded hundreds of others, according to search warrants unsealed by a Nevada judge Tuesday.
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In an 81-page investigative report released Friday, Las Vegas police gave their most comprehensive timeline to date on how the Oct. 1 massacre unfolded at a country music concert on the Strip.
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On May 18 — about four months before the deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history unfolded on the Las Vegas Strip — gunman Stephen Paddock was thinking about San Diego.
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Stephen Paddock gambled large sums of money, kept child pornography on his computer and purchased more than 55 weapons in the year leading up to the largest mass shooting in modern American history.
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Her fingerprints were on the ammunition. Her casino players’ card was found in his room.
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A Murrieta couple who grew closer after surviving the mass shooting in Las Vegas on Oct. 1 died weeks later in a car crash not far from their home, relatives and authorities said.
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Arnie DeGeorge sat weeping in an airport bar in Toronto as a television broadcast images from his hometown of Las Vegas.
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In the wake of the worst mass shooting in modern U.S. history, Las Vegas shelved its fun-loving motto of “What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas,” replacing it with a hashtag — #VegasStrong — to promote tourism to the gambling mecca.
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Las Vegas’ convention and meeting business seems to be rebounding following a mass shooting in the city on Oct. 1, according to operators of two of the city’s biggest casinos and resorts.
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Lawyers representing more than 450 victims of the Oct. 1 Las Vegas massacre filed multiple lawsuits Monday in Los Angeles County Superior Court, arguing that hotel and concert officials did not do enough to prevent a shooting that left 58 people dead.
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The man who shot hundreds and killed 58 at the Route 91 Harvest music festival a month ago was a narcissist who may have seen his image as a high-rolling gambler declining, Clark County Sheriff Joe Lombardo said as the investigation into the Oct. 1 shooting rampage entered its second month.
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The first time she ever met him, Sheri Sletten held him in her arms and pressed her cheek to his face.
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It was nearly one year ago when Derek Miller walked inside a Sephora store in Huntington Beach with his younger sister and locked eyes with Andrea Castilla.
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Police have once again shifted their timeline of how the Oct. 1 massacre unfolded in Las Vegas, saying on Friday that a hotel security guard was shot only moments before the gunman fired on a concert crowd — not six minutes before the attack began, as they had previously stated.
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Two of the most resilient Dodgers will finally make their postseason debuts Sunday.
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The company that runs the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino has disputed the timeline offered by Las Vegas police for the Oct. 1 mass shooting at the hotel, suggesting Thursday that very little time had elapsed between when gunman Stephen Paddock shot a hotel security guard and when he started firing on a concert crowd outside.
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Before the Las Vegas massacre began, a wounded Mandalay Bay hotel security guard called hotel officials to warn them about a gunman on the 32nd floor, an investigator told the Los Angeles Times on Tuesday.
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Stephen Paddock wanted to win and, like any savvy video poker player, knew which machine to lock down at Mandalay Bay.
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When Stephen Paddock opened fired on an outdoor country music festival, affixed to at least one of his semiautomatic rifles was a “bump stock” device.
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Ten days after a mass shooting killed dozens and injured hundreds in Las Vegas, the city that thrives on tourists, gambling and good times launched an ad to encourage visitors to return.
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For years, the city wanted a professional, bona fide sports team from one of the four major leagues.
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One by one, the mourners called out the names. “Andrea Castilla,” the first one said.
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On the heels of two recent fight weeks that demanded round-the-clock attention, I originally viewed the job of Saturday’s UFC 216 card in Las Vegas to be something far less demanding.
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Las Vegas police revealed Monday that a hotel security guard was shot in the hallway outside gunman Stephen Paddock’s room six minutes before Paddock opened fire on a crowd of concertgoers.
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A pipefitter from Riverside, a limo driver from Reno, a teacher from Lancaster, a hockey mom from Alaska, a nurse from Tennessee.
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The pro-gun community had reason to be suspicious of Donald Trump.
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Stephen Paddock, the former IRS agent and professional gambler whose shooting rampage in Las Vegas left 58 victims dead, was a laid-back “goofball” who didn’t have a “serious bone in his body,” a longtime employee of the gunman said Friday.
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The gunman who opened fire on a country music festival in Las Vegas did not have help from a second attacker, officials said Friday, but it remains unclear whether he made anyone else aware of his plans in advance.
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He was running, lungs burning, across the casino floor of the Luxor — leaving his friends behind in a mad, desperate sprint toward the massacre.
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This week it’s guns, with at least 59 people dead and hundreds injured after the worst mass shooting in modern U.S. history.
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After a horrific tragedy like the Las Vegas massacre, Americans argue about whether it’s the right time to talk about our gun violence problem.
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The gunman who fired on a country music festival in Las Vegas also researched outdoor performance areas in Boston and other large cities in recent months, a law enforcement official with knowledge of the investigation said Thursday.
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Kevin Lee attended a charity event Tuesday at the Luxor, next door to Mandalay Bay, and glanced up to the 32nd floor room where the worst mass shooting in modern U.S. history was perpetrated.
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In a visit with victims and first responders in Las Vegas on Wednesday, President Trump praised those who rushed into action during the massacre that claimed 58 lives, and he told family members of the victims, “You are not alone.
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He was a quarter of a mile away and a few hundred feet high — the smallest of specks in a boisterous landscape.
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One thing we know about the Las Vegas mass murderer: He was, before obtaining all those guns, an “honest, law-abiding citizen.”
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The girlfriend of the gunman who killed 58 people at a country music festival in Las Vegas broke her silence Wednesday and denied advance knowledge of the attack, saying that she knew Stephen Paddock as a “kind, caring, quiet” man and that she was devastated by the violence.
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A 27-year-old San Diego woman who lost an eye in the mass shooting Sunday in Las Vegas remains in a coma and is in critical condition, a family friend said.
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The Kings will honor employee Christiana Duarte, who was one of the victims of the mass shooting in Las Vegas, when they open their season Thursday at Staples Center.
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One thought became crystal clear to Taylor Winston as carnage surrounded him.
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As the gunshots echoed and people began to drop around her, Carmen Alegria was certain her time was up.
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Garen Wintemute, an emergency room doctor in Davis, Calif., knows there’s only so much he can do to prevent a gunshot victim from dying.
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The gunman who attacked a Las Vegas country music festival installed cameras outside his hotel room, including at least one in a room service cart, to watch for approaching police officers as he carried out his rampage, officials said Tuesday.
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He was 64 years old and, to those who knew him, showed no signs of mental illness, extreme political views or an unhealthy interest in guns.
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The electronic billboard at the MGM Grand on the Las Vegas Strip flashed a somber message: “For help locating missing or injured loved ones contact Las Vegas Metro Police 1-800-536-9488.”
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Accuracy matters in the moments after a tragedy.
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As Linda Green stood behind police tape and gazed at the Mandalay Bay hotel, she thought about the months ahead — the sadness, the healing, the push for gun control legislation.
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Southbound lanes of the Las Vegas Strip reopened to traffic around 4:45 p.m.
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Jack and Laurie Beaton loved country music and traveling, and regularly attended multi-day concerts such as Stagecoach.
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The nation awakened Monday morning to yet another pointless, blood-filled tragedy that stupefied, saddened and appalled us all.
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The word “audience” comes from the Latin word “audientia,” meaning a hearing.
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We all noted how strange it looked on that day more than two years ago: a gray concrete machine-gun firing range almost directly across the street from the colorful lights and sounds of a music festival.
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Irma Garcia did not go to work Monday.
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The Mandalay Bay hotel in Las Vegas has reopened for business, and a hotline has been set up for those with questions on reservations and other concerns after a shooting Sunday that killed more than 50 people and injured hundreds.
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Arthur B. Alphin is well acquainted with the trigonometry of terror. The retired U.S. Army Lt.
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Country music has long idealized the gun-owning lifestyle.
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Army veteran risked his life to save others at Las Vegas concert massacre, but don’t call him a hero
Robert Ledbetter was a scout sniper for the U.S. Army Rangers during one tour of duty in Iraq.
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LAPD Officer John Kline and his wife Dawn were on their third annual visit to the Route 91 country concert series Sunday night when the gunfire began.
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There is no better example of the corrosive effect of money on American politics than the spending of the National Rifle Assn.
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They came from Alaska and Tennessee, Riverside and Simi Valley, commercial fishermen, police officers, teachers, retirees — drawn together only by a love of country music.
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Before it became the site of Sunday’s deadly mass shooting, the Route 91 Harvest festival was one of a handful of concert blowouts aiming to burnish the Las Vegas Strip’s reputation as a live-music destination.
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President Trump called for unity and prayer in the aftermath of “an act of pure evil,” somberly addressing the nation from the White House on Monday hours after the worst mass shooting in modern U.S. history.
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At first, they thought the “bop, bop, bop” noise was firecrackers.
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Las Vegas has always loomed large as the ultimate American escape fantasy — escape from worry, from sobriety, from the restraints of puritanical norms.
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At least 59 people were killed and 527 others injured after a gunman opened fire Sunday night at an outdoor country music festival near the Las Vegas Strip — the deadliest mass shooting in modern American history.
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After a gunman killed dozens of Las Vegas concertgoers from the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay resort, shares of hotel owner MGM Resorts International fell Monday, shrinking the company’s market value by more than $900 million.
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In the immediate aftermath of a crushing national disaster, Americans want a consoler in chief, a president who tries to bind obvious wounds and unify a shattered public.
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Congress has been unable, or unwilling, to approve gun control legislation after recent mass shootings — including one targeting lawmakers playing baseball — and it is unlikely to consider new bills after the attack in Las Vegas.
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For decades, law enforcement has tried to keep one step ahead of terrorists who target large groups and venues.
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Multiple police officers, both on and off duty, were among those killed or injured after a gunman opened fire Sunday night at a country music festival opposite the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino on the Las Vegas Strip, officials said.
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America is reeling from the mass shooting at a country music concert in Las Vegas on Sunday night, which left at least 58 people dead and more than 500 others injured.
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As my colleague Lisa Mascaro is reporting Monday, Congressional Republicans are still planning to push through a package of bills sponsored by the National Rifle Assn. aimed at making it easier to purchase silencers.
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Firefighters in Los Angeles see a range of human tragedy in their work, from victims of horrible accidents and crimes to casualties of natural disasters.
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The nation awakened Monday morning to learn that a gunman opened fire at an outdoor country music festival Sunday night on the Las Vegas Strip, killing 58 people and injuring nearly 500 -- the deadliest mass shooting in modern American history.
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More than 50 people were killed and at least 400 others injured after a gunman opened fire Sunday night at a country music festival opposite the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino on the Las Vegas Strip, authorities said.
