The Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department says it has arrested a 17-year-old as the suspect in the shooting that occurred at this month's First Friday in the Arts District.
Police booked the suspect into Clark County Juvenile Hall on charges of murder with a deadly weapon and two counts of attempted murder.
The shooting occurred around 10:17 p.m. Friday during a physical fight involving three teenagers, resulting in the death of 15-year-old Carth Onasi Jacobs-Rodgers.
Although authorities detained several individuals at the scene shortly after the altercation, the suspect had already fled before officers arrived.
A decline in the number of marriages performed in Nevada has led to a $2 million drop in state funding for domestic violence and sexual assault programs.
That's according to the Nevada Coalition to End Domestic and Sexual Violence and reporting by KSNV-TV.
Part of the fee for each marriage license supports those programs. In Clark County, that's about half of the $102 it costs to get a license.
According to the coalition, the state awarded $5.8 million from marriage license revenue to counties last year, but only $3.8 million this year. As a result, funding was cut by about 35%.
The ups and downs of the tourism industry, especially in Clark County, can affect how many visitors apply for licenses.
The organization wants the state to provide a more stable funding source for the programs, including a dedicated line item in Nevada's state budget for domestic violence services.
A conservative group is making its way across the country advocating for limiting what it calls government overreach and corporate influence in the construction of new data centers.
Opposition to data centers is an issue uniting conservatives and progressives.
The group, Humans First, describes itself as a grassroots conservative organization and has embarked on a 27-state bus tour to promote what it calls an "America First" AI policy. Its goals include local control, protecting ratepayers and natural resources, and ending eminent domain and corporate welfare for Big Tech.
Tom Gaitens, a senior adviser at Humans First, calls it an apolitical issue, because everyone drinks water, uses electricity and wants their voice heard.
This past weekend, the group's bus stopped in Boulder City, where a data center has been proposed on public land.
Gaitens says that whether a data center is supported or rejected locally, development should only take place with community input and full transparency. He says that if data centers are considered on public lands, they should be limited to locations with pre-existing build-outs, like decommissioned military sites, rather than new construction in open spaces.
In November, voters in Boulder City will decide whether the city should change its zoning laws to allow data centers. The Center for Biological Diversity and local residents have halted, for now, the proposed data center on public land near Boulder City as the case makes its way through an appeals process.
Research suggests Democrats are more likely than Republicans to be critical of the impacts of data centers. But Republicans' views have become more negative in recent months, according to Pew Research Center. Forty-two percent of Republicans now say the facilities are mostly bad for the quality of life of people nearby, up from 24% in January.
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Tribal gaming leaders say prediction markets like Kalshi and Polymarket threaten their way of life. They made the comments at last week's Global Gaming Expo, also known as G2E, in Las Vegas.
Tribal gaming is heavily regulated, much like the rest of the traditional gambling industry. However, prediction market companies have, for the most part, flown under federal regulators' radar.
That's why tribes have either independently sued — or joined state attorneys general's lawsuits against — prediction market companies, in an attempt to regulate the ever-expanding gaming space.
Jason Giles, a tribal citizen of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation and executive director of the Indian Gaming Association, said during the conference that the companies don't like it when tribes point out that for 40 years, and even before that, tribes had to fight all the way to the Supreme Court just to get bingo.
Recently, the 6th and 9th U.S. Circuit Courts of Appeals allowed Nevada, Ohio and Tennessee to regulate prediction markets. Now these companies are banned from those states. As such, more cases are expected to follow. In fact, both tribal gaming leaders and the association say they are willing to take the matter all the way to the Supreme Court to preserve their sovereignty over the issue.
Axel Rodríguez Olivas is set to become the first student to graduate with a minor in mariachi from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, one of the only universities in the country to offer such a niche specialization.
In a city where Latinos make up more than a third of the population, mariachi music is so popular in schools that there often aren't enough teachers to meet demand. The minor was created to train students to become mariachi educators in the Clark County School District, which has one of the largest mariachi programs in the U.S., with about 6,000 students taking part.
Stephen Blanco, who oversees the minor at UNLV and directs Las Vegas High School's Mariachi Joya, says mariachi was born out of joy and pride in Mexico, and its songs tell stories of pain, love, joy and excitement. He says you don't even have to speak Spanish to enjoy it.
Blanco recently launched the 22-credit curriculum, joining only a few universities in Texas that offer such training. Students learn mariachi repertoire and how to teach the genre.
The 20-year-old Rodríguez Olivas says mariachi connects him to his roots, since his family is from Mexico. In high school, he was the student director of Mariachi Joya, which performed for Joe Biden's presidential inauguration in 2021.
When he graduates in three years, he plans to go back to the Clark County School District to teach mariachi and give future generations the same opportunities he had.
That's according to the Associated Press.
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The Las Vegas Aces are in San Francisco tonight to take on the Golden State Valkyries in Game 2 of the WNBA semifinals. Tip-off is at 6:30 p.m.
The Aces fell to the Valkyries 71-60 in Game 1 on Sunday, but beat Golden State in all three regular-season matchups.
Aces guard Dana Evans is listed as doubtful for tonight's game due to a right knee injury. Evans first appeared on the injury report ahead of the first playoff series against the Indiana Fever.
Game 3 of the semifinals will take place back in Las Vegas at Michelob Ultra Arena on Friday.
