BloodCenter of Wisconsin hosts phone bank to honor heroes of Las Vegas shooting
MILWAUKEE -- The BloodCenter of Wisconsin is teaming up with local first responders to honor the heroes of the Las Vegas tragedy.On Monday, October 9th, the BloodCenter of Wisconsin will be hosting a phone bank where you can call to thank local first responders for their service while setting up an appointment to donate blood at donor center in Wauwatosa.Donors are invited to call 1-877-BE-A-HERO.Phone bank participants include:
"Somebody that everybody loved:" 58 Vegas victims mourned
Some died with loved ones, some with friends.
Official: Las Vegas shooter booked room in Chicago during weekend of Lollapalooza
LAS VEGAS -- Investigators are looking into whether gunman Stephen Paddock scoped out bigger music festivals in Las Vegas and Chicago — and perhaps Boston's Fenway Park — before setting up his perch in a casino hotel and raining deadly fire on country music fans.Paddock booked rooms overlooking the Lollapalooza festival in Chicago in August and the Life Is Beautiful show near the Vegas Strip in late September, according to authorities reconstructing his movements before he undertook the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history.It was not clear if he contemplated massacres at those sites.Investigators looking into Paddock also came across mention of Fenway Park, Boston police Lt.
Officials dig in to Vegas shooter's high-stakes gambling
LAS VEGAS — Authorities trying to piece together the final days before Stephen Paddock unleashed his arsenal of powerful firearms on country music fans on the Las Vegas Strip have at least one potential trove of information: his gambling habits.Nevada gambling regulators say they're sorting through documents for clues about him and his girlfriend, Marilou Danley.
UNLV football team to honor victims of Vegas shooting with special helmets; assistant hockey coach hurt
LAS VEGAS, Nevada -- As a tribute to victims of the Las Vegas mass shooting, the UNLV football team will wear special helmets Saturday, October 7th vs.
Crowd of 20,000 at Las Vegas concert included many officers, firefighters: "Words cannot describe the bravery"
LAS VEGAS, Nevada — Fred Rowbotham's plan was to leave job stress behind with a trip to Las Vegas to celebrate his 45th birthday at the Route 91 Harvest country music festival.But when the rat-a-tat-tat of gunfire rained down, the police officer from Chula Vista, California, sprang into action as if he were in uniform.
"Bullets were non-stop:" Franklin woman on weekend getaway with friends survives Vegas mass shooting
FRANKLIN -- A woman from SE Wisconsin thought a weekend trip to Las Vegas would be a fun getaway.
Attorney for Las Vegas shooter's girlfriend: She knew nothing about any plans for a massacre
LAS VEGAS — The girlfriend of the Las Vegas gunman said Wednesday that she had no inkling of the massacre he was plotting when he sent her on a trip abroad to see her family.Marilou Danley issued the statement after returning from her native Philippines and being questioned for much of the day by FBI agents still trying to figure out what drove Stephen Paddock to open fire on 22,000 fans at a country music festival from his 32nd-floor hotel suite."He never said anything to me or took any action that I was aware of that I understood in any way to be a warning that something horrible like this was going to happen," Danley said in a statement read by her lawyer outside FBI headquarters in Los Angeles.Danley, who was overseas for more than two weeks, said she was initially pleased when Paddock wired her money in the Philippines to buy a house for her family.
Some hurt in Vegas mass shooting didn't initially realize they'd been shot
LAS VEGAS, Nevada — Some of the people injured in the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history didn't initially realize they had been shot, a hospital official said."We have gotten calls from people, from home, to ask if they can have bullets removed," said Dr.
Sheriff: Las Vegas shooter rented room at Ogden hotel during music festival in September
LAS VEGAS, Nevada -- Officials say the Las Vegas shooter rented a room in downtown around the same time as an alternative music festival held September 22nd through the 24th.Sheriff Joseph Lombardo told reporters that Stephen Paddock rented a room through Airbnb at the Ogden hotel in downtown Las Vegas but didn't know why.
"I wasn't ready to die:" Shot multiple times, LA nurse can't believe she's alive after Las Vegas shooting
LAS VEGAS — Tubes connecting to veins in her arms, Natalie Vanderstay clutches a pillow to her stomach, over the spot where a bullet entered her body.
Aaron Rodgers on Las Vegas shooting: "A friend of mine lost their best friend of 20 years"
GREEN BAY -- Green Bay Packers QB Aaron Rodgers said Wednesday, October 4th he had friends at the Route 91 Harvest Festival in Las Vegas -- where Stephen Paddock shot and killed at least 59 people and injured more than 500 Sunday night, October 1st."It's scary.
Vegas gunman requested 32nd floor Mandalay Bay hotel room where he opened fire
LAS VEGAS, Nevada -- The high-stakes gambler who opened fire on a Las Vegas music festival crowd asked for an upper-floor suite that provided a view of the concert site.A person who has seen Mandalay Bay hotel records that have been turned over to investigators said Wednesday they show Stephen Paddock asked for the two-room suite on the 32nd floor when he checked in last Thursday.
Man accused of threatening shootings similar to that in Vegas; Facebook postings tipped off police
OKLAHOMA CITY, Oklahoma -- A police official says a man in custody for allegedly threatening shootings in Oklahoma City and San Antonio similar to the one in Las Vegas Sunday, October 1st was arrested after his social media posts caught people's attention.Oklahoma City Capt.
President Trump lauds Las Vegas victims, doctors, police: "Amazing people"
LAS VEGAS — President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump met privately with victims of the Las Vegas shooting at a hospital Wednesday, praising them and the doctors who treated them as he visited a city still reeling from the worst gun massacre in modern U.S. history.He also met with first responders who'd been on duty Sunday night, telling them: "You showed the world and the world is watching, and you showed what professionalism is all about."
Some Las Vegas victims died with family, friends at side: "She wasn't alone in her last moments"
LAS VEGAS, Nevada -- Some died with family, some with friends.
After massacre, Las Vegas gets back to beers, slots, shows
LAS VEGAS — The fountains at the Bellagio casino went off like clockwork, the water swaying and pulsating in time to Lee Greenwood's "God Bless the USA."Two faux showgirls in pink headdresses tried to hustle a few dollars off tourists gathered to watch.