LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — University of Nevada, Las Vegas students walked the stage at the Thomas and Mack Center for their spring commencement ceremony Saturday. The occasion marked a 7% increase with more than 3,700 Rebels graduating this semester, according to university staff. The graduates come from 44 states and 50 countries. However, the majority […]
LAS VEGAS (KLAS) – During a time of despair, comes even more loss as the home of one of the UNLV professors who was killed in last month’s mass shooting was burglarized. Las Vegas Metropolitan police released a report on the incident and neighbors told 8 News Now they caught the thieves in the act. […]
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Police officers responding to a deadly shooting inside the business school at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, mistook the gunman for a bystander and urged him to get out of the building amid the frantic search for the suspect and victims, according to body camera footage and police accounts. With […]
Even before their former business professor carried out a mass shooting at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, old students of Anthony Polito say his classes were not something they would forget. There were the regular reminders to his students at East Carolina University to leave him flattering reviews on ratemyprofessors.com — and the disparaging […]
This fall semester Abigale Hennings had finally hit a stride at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. The pandemic had disrupted the 23-year-old’s education in 2020-21 when she went part time for a full academic year because virtual learning had become too difficult. She returned to full-time classes in the fall of 2021 and, in […]
The gunman who opened fire at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, on Wednesday, killing three people, mailed letters to 22 “various university personnel across the country” before the attack, police said Thursday. Las Vegas Metro Police Department Sheriff Kevin McMahill said the suspect mailed the letters without a return address. A white powder substance […]
Police in Las Vegas have identified the suspect in Wednesday’s shooting at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas that left three people dead and another injured. Sheriff Kevin McMahill identified the suspect on Thursday during a press conference as Anthony James Polito, 67. McMahill said that Polito was a resident of nearby Henderson, Nevada, and […]
LAS VEGAS — One day after a mass shooting at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, left three people and the gunman dead, a picture emerged of a quiet, lonesome academic with obsessive tendencies who was upset by being rejected for a position at the university, according to law enforcement sources, neighbors and the man’s personal […]
LeBron James’ tone was passionate, yet weary. Another shooting, this time in Las Vegas, more innocent people dead, and the Lakers superstar seemed to recognize that his plea for gun control sounds like a broken record. “It just goes back to what I said before about guns in America,” he said. “I think it’s such […]
Classes were canceled through Sunday at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, after the campus was rocked by a mass shooting Wednesday that left three dead, as well as the gunman. The city only six years ago endured one of the worst mass shootings in U.S. history. The shooter was an academic in his 60s, […]
LAS VEGAS — Terrified students and professors cowered in classrooms and dorms as a gunman roamed the floors of a University of Nevada, Las Vegas building, killing three people and critically wounding a fourth before dying in a shootout with police. The gunman in Wednesday’s shooting was a professor who had unsuccessfully sought a job […]
When the unthinkable happened, UNLV students were grabbing free food for “study week,” at cheerleading practice, and hurrying to class with their focus on final exams. “It’s one of those things,” said law student Carlos Eduardo Espina, “that you want to think, it’s not gonna happen.” Then it does. Three people were killed, one person […]